Distinguished AI Engineer
Elevance Health17 days ago
Base Salary
$255k - $382k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with product, design, business, platform, and architecture teams to simplify processes and deliver workflow-enabled products.
- Architect and deliver scalable AI solutions using agentic systems, large language models, distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
- Define enterprise technical direction, architecture patterns, integration standards, governance frameworks, and reusable platform capabilities.
- Lead AI-driven modernization of legacy systems through automated code transformation, service decomposition, and continuous optimization.
- Design AI-enabled software development lifecycle practices and establish monitoring, evaluation, responsible AI, and engineering quality standards.
- Modernize legacy workflow tools, forms, portals, manual processes, and fragmented user experiences into streamlined digital products.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, mentorship, prototypes, reference implementations, and strategic recommendations for AI investments.
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 leadership, design, implementation, and operation of 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, along with cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices.
- Preferred experience building user-centered enterprise products such as portals, dashboards, self-service experiences, case management tools, service catalogs, workflow interfaces, and operational applications.
- Preferred experience with enterprise workflow platforms, automation tools, low-code/no-code platforms, business process management, and ServiceNow capabilities.
- Preferred experience with REST integrations, web services, middleware, cloud platforms, enterprise data services, AI-enabled workflow automation, virtual agents, intelligent routing, process mining, and knowledge management.
- Preferred experience with product engineering practices, user research, journey mapping, experimentation, metrics, telemetry, feedback loops, iterative delivery, and enterprise-scale AI or platform solutions.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring associates to be in the office three days per week, with candidates generally required to live within commuting distance of an office; the position is based in Chicago, Illinois.
- 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 match, stock purchase plan, incentive and recognition programs, and potential incentive bonuses and equity benefits subject to eligibility.
- The position is a non-management exempt role.
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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.