BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Senior AI Engineer
Remote Senior AI Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 3, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Senior AI Engineer
Requirements and responsibilities
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Why This Role Is Exciting:
- End-to-End Impact — Work across the full lifecycle, from use case discovery and prototyping to delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions
- Hybrid AI Role — Engage across AI engineering, Generative AI, and MLOps in a single, high-impact position
- Modern Technology Exposure — Work hands-on with LLMs, evaluation frameworks, observability tools, and cloud-native platforms
- Cross-Functional Collaboration — Partner with business and technical stakeholders to solve real-world challenges
- Influence & Ownership — Help define standards, delivery models, and enterprise AI architecture
- Culture of Innovation — Thrive in an environment that encourages continuous learning, experimentation, and collaborative ideation
Note:
- This is a fully remote role, but final interviews at our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required.
- Sponsorship is available for this role.
Job 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.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Math) or related field or equivalent work experience required.
- Master’s or PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning) strongly preferred.
Job Qualifications
- 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).
Job Qualifications
- 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.
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