BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee · 7 hours ago
Senior AI Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expBlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to enhance their member-facing AI assistant's accuracy and reliability. This collaborative role involves working with various teams to integrate critical APIs, ensuring high-quality AI solutions tailored for healthcare use cases.
HealthcareHealth CareMedical
No H1B
Responsibilities
Lead the ideation, development, and productionalization of sophisticated AI solutions tailored for healthcare payer use cases
Architect, design, and implement complex, state-of-the-art AI models and algorithms, leveraging Python and cloud platforms like GCP Vertex AI
Partner strategically with product teams and business stakeholders to define and prioritize opportunities for applying advanced AI techniques to solve critical business challenges and drive process automation
Conduct in-depth research and maintain expertise in the latest advancements in AI, championing the adoption of cutting-edge techniques and methodologies within the team
Architect and develop robust, scalable, and efficient systems and code bases for deploying AI models into production environments, ensuring high availability and performance
Serve as a key technical advisor to our internal Lines-of-Businesses, understanding complex needs, gathering requirements, and translating them into impactful, actionable AI solutions
Define and oversee the evaluation and validation frameworks for AI models, ensuring their accuracy, reliability, fairness, and performance exceed business requirements
Mentor and guide junior engineers on best practices in AI development, model implementation, and system design
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) or related field or equivalent work experience required
5+ years of relevant work experience in analytics, technology, software engineering, or healthcare (academic experience included), or related equivalent experience
3+ years of hands-on experience specifically with machine learning, deep learning, and preferably AI models (e.g., LLMs, diffusion models) is required
Proven experience handling large, complex datasets to build and optimize sophisticated data science pipelines
Deep experience with Machine Learning, Deep Learning frameworks (e.g., Pytorch, TensorFlow), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and associated libraries (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers)
Experience deploying and managing ML models in cloud environments (GCP Vertex AI preferred, AWS SageMaker or Azure ML acceptable)
Expert proficiency in Python and relevant data science/ML libraries
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
Proven ability to architect, design, and implement complex systems
Demonstrated success leading technically challenging projects from conception through to deployment
Exceptional ability to interpret and translate complex technical concepts into information meaningful to project team members, business personnel, and leadership
Strong technical leadership and mentorship capabilities
Must be able to communicate effectively and influence both technical and non-technical co-workers and stakeholders
Highly organized, reliable, capable of managing multiple complex tasks, demonstrating an exceptional work ethic and strategic thinking
Preferred
Master's or PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning) strongly preferred
Company
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
As Tennessee's largest health plan, we've been helping Tennesseans find their own unique paths to good health for more than 70 years.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Casey Dungan
President and Chief Executive Officer - BlueCare
Melissa Scissom
COO, Cover Tenn
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