AI Engineer III

$112,900 - $191,900/Yr

Premera Blue Cross - Bellingham, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Bellingham, WA

501-1,000 employees

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About the position

As an AI Engineer III at Premera, you will be part of a team dedicated to transforming healthcare through AI and machine learning solutions. This role involves taking AI/ML projects from concept to production, requiring a blend of creativity, analytical skills, and strong software engineering capabilities. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop innovative AI products that address complex business challenges, ensuring the reliability and maintainability of AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
• Construct prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI/ML solutions before committing substantial resources.
• Develop, refine, and productionize AI systems using cloud resources such as Azure OpenAI, Azure ML, and Cognitive Services.
• Contribute to the creation of robust data pipelines for model evolution and production systems.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and incorporate them into applications.
• Supervise and sustain AI systems in production to guarantee consistent model accuracy and reliability.
• Actively participate in a team that exercises principled, agile-like development practices.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation that is consistent with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Ensure peer review on all assigned work, as well as conduct peer reviews over the work of others as requested.
• Guide junior AI engineers on AI/ML and industry best practices and methodologies.
• Keep abreast of new tools and concepts through reading documentation or literature and actively practicing skills development.
• Support and participate in meetings with external stakeholders.

Requirements

• 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 of 3 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems.
• At least 4 years of experience in developing deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, or other modern deep learning frameworks.
• Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices, with at least 2 years spent working on projects that require explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• Minimum of 3 years of proficiency in utilizing advanced prompt engineering techniques like General Knowledge Prompting and ReAct.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience developing deep learning architectures such as CNNs, transformers, GANs, LSTMs, GNNs, Autoencoders, Diffusion Models, and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs).
• Familiarity with software design patterns, microservices, distributed computing, container orchestration, and other relevant architectures.
• Proficiency in developing and optimizing ML solutions using languages like Python, and libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and scikit-learn.

Benefits

• Medical, vision and dental coverage
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement programs (401K employer match and pension plan)
• Wellness incentives, onsite services, a discount program and more
• Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
• Generous Paid Time Off to reenergize
• Free parking