Distinguished AI Engineer

Elevance Health

Distinguished AI Engineer at Elevance Health, focusing on design and deployment of enterprise AI solutions across multiple domains. Requires extensive experience in software engineering and AI technologies.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRichmond • California, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $231,440 - $416,592 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaMicroservicesPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions spanning traditional machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI systems.
Architect and deliver scalable, resilient AI solutions leveraging technologies such as agentic systems, large language models (LLMs), distributed systems, and event-driven architectures.
Serve as a senior hands-on contributor, technical leader, and subject matter expert across the AI development lifecycle.
Build reusable AI services, frameworks, accelerators, and reference architectures leveraged across multiple teams and use cases.
Partner with business domain SMEs, product, engineering, architecture, security, data, and business teams to translate business opportunities into scalable AI solutions.
Lead buy, build, and integrate decisions across commercial and open-source AI solutions.
Guide implementation teams through architecture, design, model selection, evaluation, deployment, and operationalization of AI solutions.
Mentor junior AI engineers and elevate the broader organization's AI engineering capabilities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
minimum of 15 years of experience in software engineering
experience leading, designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems and large-scale architectures
experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions using Python, Java, or comparable object-oriented programming languages
experience designing and implementing APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures
applying cloud, CI/CD, and DevOps practices

Benefits

Comp & perks

comprehensive benefits package
incentive and recognition programs
equity stock purchase
401k contribution
health insurance
paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools

Machine LearningGenerative AIAgentic AILarge Language ModelsSoftware EngineeringMicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureCI/CDDevOpsObject-Oriented Programming

Soft Skills

Technical LeadershipMentoringCollaborationCommunicationProblem-Solving