Staff Software Engineer with Agentic AI

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient, Inc is seeking a senior software engineer to lead technical design and drive day-to-day engineering execution across AI-enabled and enterprise-scale applications. The role involves hands-on development, testing, deployment, and production support, with a focus on scalable APIs, services, and distributed systems.

You will mentor engineers and promote engineering standards while collaborating with Architecture, Security, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable enterprise applications and APIs.
• Hands-on software development, testing, deployment, and production support.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and day-to-day engineering execution with hands-on contribution to development, testing and production support.
• Design and develop scalable enterprise applications, APIs, services and distributed systems.
• Translate requirements into technical designs and production-ready software.
• Develop AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows using LLMs, RAG and external tools.
• Build reusable components, services and integration patterns for scalability and efficiency.
• Apply CI/CD practices, observability, performance, reliability and maintainability.

Skills

Technical design

Hands-on coding

AI-enabled development

Mentoring

CI/CD practices

Security best practices

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Responsibilities

Required Responsibilities

• Lead technical design and day-to-day engineering execution while contributing hands-on to software development, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design and develop scalable enterprise applications, APIs, services, distributed systems, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Translate product requirements and architectural direction into technical designs, implementation plans, and production-ready software.
• Develop AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), enterprise data, and external tools.
• Build reusable software components, services, integration patterns, and frameworks that improve engineering efficiency and solution scalability.
• Apply software engineering practices for automated testing, continuous integration and delivery, observability, performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Implement secure integration patterns, access controls, error handling, monitoring, and operational safeguards across software and AI solutions.
• Mentor engineers, provide technical guidance, conduct code and design reviews, and promote engineering standards across development teams.

Preferred Responsibilities

• Develop reusable AI capabilities for orchestration, model integration, tool integration, state management, evaluation, and observability.
• Partner with Architecture, Security, and engineering teams to advance software and AI engineering standards, reference architectures, and responsible AI practices.

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan!

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we’re building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care.

Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare.

Together, we’re solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve.

Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.