Sr. AI Engineer

About the role

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to lead one or more high-performing AI engineering teams. This role involves guiding and mentoring a team, overseeing solution design, driving team delivery, ensuring code quality, solving complex technical problems, and mentoring talent.

What You'll Do

• Provide Technical Leadership: Guide and mentor a team of AI Engineers, ensuring adherence to architectural best practices, coding standards, and engineering excellence.
• Oversee Solution Design: Lead the detailed technical design and implementation of complex AI agent components, Generative AI integrations, and the underlying infrastructure.
• Drive Team Delivery: Collaborate closely with Product Owners to refine technical requirements, estimate efforts, and ensure the timely and high-quality delivery of AI features.
• Solve Complex Technical Problems: Serve as the primary technical escalation point for your team, troubleshooting complex issues and guiding resolutions.
• Mentor and Develop Talent: Actively coach and mentor AI Engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and understanding of agentic architectures.
• Evaluate New Technologies: Assess new tools, libraries, and frameworks that can improve your team's efficiency and capabilities.

What You'll Bring

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Technology, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning and deep learning frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and scikit-learn.
• 1+ years of hands-on expertise in developing agentic solutions, with strong knowledge of cloud services (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and MLOps tools (like Docker and Kubernetes).
• Proven experience overseeing the technical design and implementation of complex AI agent components.
• Hands-on experience designing and developing AI agents that leverage Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures and fine-tuning techniques.
• Proven expertise in managing the performance, scalability, and reliability of AI models in production.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience conducting code reviews, leading knowledge-sharing sessions, and making critical decisions on technologies and frameworks.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in Linux/Unix scripting.
• Experience working with multiple cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Solution Architect Associate certifications, preferably in GCP or AWS.

Minimum Education Requirements

A high school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above.

Location

Boston, Hingham

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

$151,200.00 - $184,800.00

Note

No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.