Distinguished Engineer - AI Adoption
Elevance Health1 day ago
Base Salary
$255k - $382k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise AI adoption by partnering with business units and cross-functional technology, business, legal, compliance, security, and procurement teams.
- Translate business problems into AI-enabled designs involving agentic workflows, LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, automation, decision support, and AI-assisted engineering.
- Evaluate AI vendors, foundation models, cloud AI platforms, agentic tools, orchestration frameworks, and emerging capabilities through testing, benchmarks, and proof-of-concepts.
- Create decision matrices, evaluation criteria, technical scorecards, and recommendations for selecting AI tools, models, platforms, and vendors.
- Design reusable agentic frameworks, reference architectures, prompts, orchestration approaches, integration models, and enterprise AI patterns.
- Develop prototypes, technical accelerators, and proof-of-concepts that validate business value and create paths to production.
- Define standards for vendor integrations, APIs, model selection, data access, observability, guardrails, evaluation, and deployment.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership for AI solutions involving cloud platforms, enterprise systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures, and DevOps environments.
- Monitor emerging AI vendors, model capabilities, agentic frameworks, industry trends, and enterprise AI practices.
- Influence senior technology and business leaders by communicating technical tradeoffs, risks, implementation options, and investment recommendations.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- At least 15 years of software engineering experience, including leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software with Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages.
- Experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
- Preferred experience evaluating and implementing AI solutions from multiple vendors, including foundation model providers, cloud AI platforms, AI coding tools, agentic platforms, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise AI products.
- Preferred experience with agentic AI frameworks, reusable design patterns, prompt strategies, orchestration flows, tool-calling patterns, RAG patterns, workflow automation, and human-in-the-loop models.
- Preferred experience creating decision matrices, benchmarks, technical scorecards, recommendation frameworks, and production-readiness plans.
- Preferred experience rapidly prototyping emerging technologies and converting successful experiments into scalable engineering patterns.
- Preferred experience mentoring engineering teams and creating enablement materials, reference implementations, frameworks, and AI adoption playbooks.
- Ability to influence executives, engineering leaders, architects, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders through technical credibility and hands-on delivery.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring three days per week in the office, with alternate locations considered for candidates within commuting distance.
- Benefits include medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, life insurance, paid holidays, paid time off, wellness programs, financial education resources, 401(k) with matching contribution, stock purchase plan, incentive and recognition programs, and potential incentive bonuses.
- The posting is anticipated to remain active through September 30, 2026.
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About Elevance Health
Fueled by our bold purpose to improve the health of humanity, we are transforming from a traditional health benefits organization into a lifetime trusted health partner. Our nearly 100,000 associates serve more than 118 million people, at every stage of health. We address a full range of needs with an integrated whole health approach, powered by industry-leading capabilities and a digital platform for health. We believe that improving health for everyone is possible. It begins by redefining health, reimagining the health system, and strengthening our communities.