AI Platform Engineer

AI Platform 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. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. 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 AI Platform Engineer will build, ship, and operate secure, scalable components of a cloud AI platform, APIs, services, distributed data jobs, and the tooling that powers our developers.

• Design and implement cloud native services and APIs (REST/gRPC) with robust authentication/authorization, multi‑tenancy, quotas, and rate limiting.
• Contribute to distributed processing (batch and streaming) for ingestion, normalization, and feature/vector pipelines that power search, retrieval, and inference.
• Integrate services with model endpoints, vector indexes, and metadata/catalog systems; follow contracts and versioning standards for backward compatibility.
• Add telemetry by default (logs, metrics, traces); build dashboards and alerts; participate in incident response and post‑incident improvements.
• Automate with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code; create repeatable environment provisioning and deployment patterns (blue/green, canary).
• Contribute with high‑quality docs, SDK samples, and usage examples, support consumer onboarding and access workflows.
• Write clean, well‑tested code; perform reviews; uphold secure coding and reliability practices; maintain runbooks and API specs.
• Participate in on‑call rotation; proactively improve availability, latency, and cost efficiency.

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field and a minimum of 3 years of experience on a platform with multiple databases, languages or business applications; or any combination of education and experience that provides an equivalent background.

• Experience mentoring others, leading small projects, and providing troubleshooting support.
• Solid grasp of API design (OpenAPI), eventing/message queues, and SQL/No
  
  SQL data stores; familiarity with vector databases and embeddings integration.
• Hands‑on with containers/orchestration, CI/CD, IaC, secrets/IAM, and observability concepts.
• Comfort with batch/stream processing paradigms and job orchestration (DAG‑based schedulers).

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below locations, the salary range for this position is $110,440 to $180,720. Locations:
California, Illinois, and Washington.

Elevance Health offers a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase, and 401(k) contribution. All benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.

The salary offered for this specific position is based on 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.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or other protected status. If you require accommodation to participate in the application process, contact elevancehealthj for assistance.