Solution Architect/AI Engineer IV

About the role

Join Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve People’s Lives
Premera is dedicated to improving healthcare by empowering employees to drive change and innovation. As a Solution Architect/AI Engineer IV, you'll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and implementing sophisticated AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Recommend and develop comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products, powering solutions for Digital Web experiences.
• Manage additions for chatbot interfaces and backend services that support them, optimizing for cost in token consumption.
• Create prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI solutions before committing substantial resources, iterating fast and delivering prototypes autonomously.
• Design and implement the cloud architecture of large multi-faceted AI systems.
• Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and integrate them into applications.
• Develop the code for monitoring models and AI systems to ensure consistent and reliable performance.
• Maintain thorough documentation that aligns with team procedures, corporate policies, and expectations.
• Drive design reviews that align with our solution design process and actively participate in presenting and reviewing designs.
• Guide other Solution Architects with industry best practices and methodologies, applying a similar approach when working with delivery teams, and providing critical input.
• Stay updated on new tools and concepts, continuously proving hypotheses in an experimentation environment.
• Advise team leadership on AI strategies, focusing on technology strategies and roadmaps, and collaborate with external stakeholders to conceptualize AI solutions that realize business value while adhering to AI governance, best practices, data quality, reliability, and security.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in software development and launching online customer products, with knowledge of the software development lifecycle and proficiency in multiple programming languages.
• At least 2 years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with cloud solutions in a highly regulated environment.
• Experience in the healthcare industry is preferred.
• Experience working within agile-like teams and environments, with exposure to API and service-based technologies.
• Experience in successfully productionizing AI models, including constructing scalable data pipelines and establishing robust monitoring systems.
• Experience in using and creating automated test tools and a strong background in developing strategies for load testing AI experiences live in production.
• Knowledge of ethical AI practices, including explainable AI, fairness, and bias mitigation.
• Expertise in implementing advanced techniques like Retrieval Augmented Generation, Tree of Thoughts, or Multimodal Chain of Thought in prompt engineering projects.
• 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.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex solutions to diverse stakeholders.
• Strong mentorship and leadership skills, with a commitment to knowledge sharing and professional development.

Physical Requirements

• This is primarily a sedentary role which requires the ability to exert up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
• The role requires the ability to keyboard and to communicate clearly and understandably in person and over the telephone.

Benefits

Our comprehensive total rewards package includes:

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
• Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retailer programs, including a 401K employer match and a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
• Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs.
• Generous paid time off to reenergize.
• Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

Pay

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience. The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.

National Plus Salary Range: $150,300.00 - $270,500.00