AI Engineer IV

Premera Blue Cross is hiring an AI Engineer IV for a remote/telecommuter role working from home in the United States. This position blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership, supporting AI product development from early prototypes through production deployment, monitoring, and ongoing improvement.

The role focuses on building dependable AI/ML capabilities, including cloud architecture, data pipelines, low latency APIs, and model monitoring. You will also mentor engineers and share technical guidance with the broader Premera AI community, while collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to deliver AI solutions that align with governance, best practices, and data quality.

What you will do

• Recommend and develop end-to-end systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
• Present AI concepts to team leadership, then lead prototype and minimum viable product development to validate approaches before larger investment.
• Support design and implementation of cloud architecture for large, multi-faceted AI systems.
• Assist with the design and scaffolding of robust data pipelines for complex AI workloads.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services used to deploy AI models and integrate them into applications.
• Build code for monitoring AI models and systems to help ensure consistent, reliable performance.
• Work within a team that practices principled, agile-like development.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation aligned with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Ensure peer review for assigned work and conduct peer reviews for others when requested.
• Guide AI engineers on AI/ML and industry best practices and methodologies.
• Stay current on tools and concepts through documentation, literature, and skills development.
• Advise team and division leadership on enterprise AI strategies, AI technology strategies and roadmaps, and AI infrastructure strategies and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with external stakeholders to conceptualize AI solutions that deliver business value while adhering to AI governance, AI best practices, and data quality.
• Provide thought leadership to the Premera AI community.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or 2+ years of experience in a related, professional IT/analytics position.
• Minimum 5 years of industry experience developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI-centered Master’s/PhD or AI Engineering certifications.

Preferred qualifications

• At least 6 years developing deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, or other modern frameworks. Experience with older libraries such as Theano or Caffe is also accepted (may be supplemented with graduate-level education or research experience).
• Experience designing patterns and microservices architecture, including 3 years with container orchestration in production.
• At least 3 years implementing ethical AI practices, including explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• At least 3 years in prompt engineering using advanced techniques such as Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts, or Multimodal CoT, including leading prompt engineering teams, conducting code reviews, and setting prompt engineering best practices.
• Minimum 4 years productionizing AI models, including scalable data pipelines and robust monitoring systems.
• At least 5 years working in Agile-like teams and environments.

Technologies you may work with

• Python, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, scikit-learn
• TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, Streamlit, Shiny
• Theano, Caffe
• Docker, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts
• Multimodal CoT, CNNs, transformers, GANs, LSTMs, GNNs, Autoencoders, Diffusion Models
• Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs)

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
• Voluntary benefits, including pet insurance for paw parents.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement programs including a 401K employer match and a pension plan vested after 3 years.
• Wellness incentives with mental well-being resources, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs for you and your dependents.
• Generous paid time off.
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Employee recognition program for anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

Compensation

Salary range: USD 131,900 - 270,500 per year.

National salary range: $131,900.00 - $237,400.00

National plus salary range: $150,300.00 - $270,500.00

Work location and eligibility

• Telecommuter: remote/telecommuter position working from home.
• Premera is hiring in: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin (with some limitations based on role or city).

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action: Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and seeks to attract and retain individuals without regard to protected characteristics under applicable law.