Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Senior AI Engineer will build and scale reusable AI capabilities across the enterprise, including Evaluation-as-a-Service (EaaS) and Document Intelligence pipelines. This role will define the technical foundation for reliable, governed, and scalable AI systems, enabling teams to move from one-off solutions to standardized, production-ready capabilities. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of AI engineering, platform development, and responsible AI governance, driving both technical depth and cross-team impact.

How You Will Make An Impact:

• Recommends solutions to new and complex problems, develops innovative strategies, quantifies the competitive performance of the organization's operations and/or markets, evaluates the potential impact of changes and reports on economic forecasts that affect the industry.

• Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team of clinicians, engineers, and researchers to deliver an end-to-end product: from ideation to data collection and analysis, model architecture design, development, testing, validation, and integration into the production environment.

• Design and build reusable AI platform capabilities that enable scalable model development, evaluation, and deployment across the enterprise

• Develop and operationalize robust pipelines for experimentation, benchmarking, and model comparison to improve decision-making and reduce rework

• Define and standardize schemas, APIs, and workflows to drive consistency, interoperability, and reuse across AI systems

• Improve reliability, reproducibility, and quality through structured experimentation, evaluation frameworks, and tracking mechanisms

• Partner with cross-functional teams (engineering, data science, product) to translate use cases into production-ready, reusable capabilities

• Optimize AI systems for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency in production environments

• Embed Responsible AI principles by implementing governance, evaluation standards, and audit-ready processes

Minimum Requirements:

Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent degree and 6 or more years of experience; or any combination of education and experience in configuration management, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences:

• Experience with Python, APIs and distributed systems.

• Experience with ML/LLM pipelines and evaluation techniques preferred.

• Experience with productionizing AI systems (monitoring, logging, scaling) preferred.

• Experience designing reusable frameworks or platform capabilities.

• Familiarity with Responsible AI, model evaluation, and governance practices

• Knowledge of: Document Intelligence (OCR, NLP, structured extraction).

• Exposure to platform engineering and familiarity with modern AI workflows and multi model systems preferred.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below location(s), the salary* range for this specific position is $156,464 - 234,696.

Locations: Illinois

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). The salary offered for this specific position is based on a number of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors set by the Company. The Company is fully committed to ensuring equal pay opportunities for equal work regardless of gender, race, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local pay equity laws.

* The salary range is the range Elevance Health in good faith believes is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future and actual compensation may vary from posting based on geographic location, work experience, education and/or skill level. Even within the range, the actual compensation will vary depending on the above factors as well as market/business considerations. No amount is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable under the terms and conditions of the applicable policies and plans. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact View email address on click.appcast.io for assistance.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

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