AI Engineer IV

$125,200 - $225,400/Yr

Premera Blue Cross - Bellingham, WA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Bellingham, WA

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About the position

As an AI Engineer IV at Premera, you will play a pivotal role in developing AI/ML solutions that address complex business challenges. This position involves leading the ideation and prototyping of new AI products, ensuring the creation of reliable AI infrastructure, and mentoring junior engineers. You will be responsible for guiding the solutioning of intricate challenges and staying updated with the latest AI research and technologies, all while working in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and develop comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
• Pitch concepts to team leadership and lead the construction of prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI/ML solutions.
• Assist in designing and implementing the cloud architecture of large multi-faceted AI systems.
• Assist in the design and scaffolding of robust data pipelines that drive large complex AI systems.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and incorporate them into applications.
• Develop the code for monitoring models and AI systems to ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Actively participate in a team that exercises principled, agile-like development practices.
• Create and maintain thorough documentation consistent with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Ensure peer review on all assigned work and conduct peer reviews over the work of others as requested.
• Guide 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.
• Advise team and division leadership on enterprise AI strategies, AI-related technology strategies and roadmaps, and AI-related infrastructure strategies and roadmaps.
• Meet and collaborate with external stakeholders to conceptualize AI solutions that realize business value while ensuring AI governance adherence, AI best practices, and data quality.
• Provide thought leadership to the Premera AI community.

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 5 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems.
• At least 6 years of experience in developing deep learning models using TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLX, JAX, or other modern deep learning frameworks.
• Experience with design patterns and microservices architecture, including at least 3 years with container orchestration in a production environment.
• Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices, with at least 3 years spent working on projects that require explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• At least 3 years of expertise in implementing advanced techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts, or Multimodal CoT in prompt engineering projects.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in successfully productionizing AI models, including constructing scalable data pipelines and establishing robust monitoring systems.
• At least 5 years working within Agile-like teams and environments.

Nice-to-haves

• Proven experience developing deep learning architectures such as CNNs, transformers, GANs, LSTMs, GNNs, Autoencoders, Diffusion Models, and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs).
• Proven experience debugging AI systems and enhancing performance through hyperparameter tuning and similar techniques.
• Knowledgeable about software design patterns, microservices, distributed computing, container orchestration, and other relevant architectures.
• Adept software engineering skills as well as skills building secure, stable software systems at scale.
• Proven experience developing and optimizing ML solutions using languages like Python and libraries such as NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and scikit-learn.
• Familiarity working with traditional ML lifecycles.
• Familiarity with building minimal interfaces to interact with AI products, e.g., Streamlit or Shiny.
• Proficient at ethical AI practices including explainable AI, fairness, and mitigation of bias/hallucinations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and mentorship skills.
• Ability to articulate the technical details and tradeoffs of AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

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