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. 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 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 (e.g., OAuth2/OIDC, key management), 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/alerts; participate in incident response and post incident improvements.

• Automate with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code; create repeatable environment provisioning and deploy 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 an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 3 years experience on one platform, multi database, multi language or multi business application; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Experience mentoring others, leading small projects and providing troubleshooting support is strongly preferred.

• 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 location(s), the salary
* range for this specific position is $110,440 to $180,720.

Locations:
California, Illinois and Washington.

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.

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