Senior AI Engineer
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee1 day ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead the ideation, development, and productionization of AI solutions for healthcare payer use cases.
- Design and implement AI models, algorithms, platform capabilities, MCP services, enterprise integrations, and production systems.
- Deploy and manage AI models in cloud environments while ensuring scalability, availability, performance, and reliability.
- Partner with product teams, business stakeholders, and internal lines of business to identify opportunities and translate workflows into AI-enabled solutions.
- Define and oversee AI model evaluation and validation frameworks covering accuracy, reliability, fairness, and performance.
- Research emerging AI advances and champion adoption of appropriate techniques and methodologies.
- Mentor junior engineers on AI development, model implementation, and system design.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM or a related field, or equivalent work experience is required.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in analytics, technology, software engineering, healthcare, or a related area, including academic experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on experience with machine learning, deep learning, and preferably AI models such as LLMs or diffusion models.
- Experience designing enterprise-scale integrations, APIs, or platform services in a regulated environment.
- Experience with AI agents, MCP, tool calling, or comparable frameworks connecting AI systems to enterprise applications and data sources.
- Experience handling large, complex datasets and building sophisticated data science pipelines.
- Deep experience with machine learning, deep learning frameworks, natural language processing, and related libraries.
- Experience deploying and managing machine learning models in cloud environments; GCP Vertex AI is preferred, with AWS SageMaker or Azure ML accepted.
- Expert proficiency in Python and relevant data science or machine learning libraries.
- Strong systems architecture, technical leadership, project leadership, communication, stakeholder influence, and mentoring capabilities.
- Master’s or PhD in a relevant field such as computer science, AI, or machine learning is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications is required.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Final interviews are required at the company’s Chattanooga, Tennessee headquarters.
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About BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is a nonprofit health insurer providing medical, pharmacy, and wellness coverage to individuals, families, and employer groups across Tennessee. It sells fully insured plans and administers self-funded employer benefits, with offerings that extend to Medicare and Medicaid through affiliated programs. Founded in 1945 and headquartered in Chattanooga, it operates as an independent licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, serving members statewide and when traveling.