Premera Blue Cross

AI/Data Scientist

Premera Blue Cross

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: AlaskaArizonaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $118,900 - $202,100 per year

About the role

  • Develop and tune generative/agentic AI solutions aimed to solve highly complex problems within the delivery of healthcare or health plan services.
  • Establish comprehensive tracking of experiments to manage the iterative process of building and testing models ensuring that AI solutions fulfill business requirements.
  • Provide statistical rigor to these evaluations via the design of controlled tests to measure the impact of changes to the solution.
  • Form and leverage strong collaborations with AI engineers to scale solutions for production grade performance.
  • Develop and implement complex agentic workflows that utilize AI agents for autonomous task execution, enhancing operational efficiency and decision-making capabilities.
  • Solve new business problems by reaching, designing, building, and validating complex or novel machine learning models.
  • Conduct feature engineering and model optimization.
  • Manage the complete lifecycle of machine learning models from conception to deployment while following SDLC and responsible AI practices.
  • Consult with senior and executive level business leaders to scope, model, and recommend AI/ML, technical, or analytic solutions to highly complex problems within healthcare.
  • Build and ensure consensus with stakeholders regarding the feasibility, tradeoffs, and delivery of recommended solutions.
  • Research, recommend, and apply causal techniques (RCT, DiD, PSM, causal graph models, counterfactual reasoning, etc.) to estimate treatment effects to quantify or validate business benefit of complex health plan activities.
  • Explain business impact to program owners and leadership using approaches that are meaningful to those audiences.
  • Partner with program owner in the promotion or publications of results when applicable.
  • Participate in code peer reviews and quality assurance testing.
  • Troubleshoot issues as they arise to solve problems independently and collaboratively.
  • Serve as the technical subject matter expert to establish best practices for the team and help coach the team via formal and informal initiatives.
  • Maintain regular contact with customers through development cycle to ensure each step of implementation tracks customer’s needs.
  • Lead analytics projects applying a working knowledge of Agile and SCRUM project methodologies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Programming, Data Science, or similar quantitative field.
  • (5) years of experience in quantitative analytics, programming, and/or data engineering or data science for Level III.
  • (8) years of experience in quantitative analytics, programming, and/or data engineering or data science for Level IV.
  • Master’s/PhD Degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science or similar quantitative field (preferred).
  • 2+ years of experience developing solutions using language and reasoning models (preferred).
  • Familiarity with agentic frameworks and protocols and knowledge graphs (preferred).
  • 5+ years of experience in developing and optimizing ML solutions using Python’s core data science scientific stack (NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib and scikit-learn) (preferred).
  • Familiarity with advanced model interpretability libraries (e.g., SHAP, LIME) (preferred).
  • Experience with open-source environments (preferred).
  • 3+ years of experience with ML lifecycles in production contexts, including metrics definition, drift monitoring and alerting, automated retraining, etc. (preferred).
Benefits
  • Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
  • Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
  • Life and disability insurance.
  • Retirement 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, just to name a few.
  • Generous paid time off to reenergize.
  • Tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
  • Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.
  • Commuter perks to make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
  • On-campus model provides flexibility for hybrid employees with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningfeature engineeringmodel optimizationstatistical analysiscausal techniquesprogrammingdata engineeringquantitative analyticsagentic AI solutionscontrolled tests
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipstakeholder managementcoachingindependent workteamworkconsensus buildingcustomer engagement
Certifications
Bachelor’s DegreeMaster’s DegreePhD