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BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is hiring a Senior AI Engineer within our Facets Claims, Integrations & Operations and BlueCard/ITS division. This fully remote, newly created role will help establish the AI integration and automation foundation for Core Payer Applications. You'll lead the design and development of AI platform capabilities, MCP (Model Context Protocol) services, and enterprise integrations that connect AI agents with business applications, APIs, and data sources.

Working at the intersection of healthcare operations and artificial intelligence, you'll play a key role in shaping how technologies are extended for our mission-critical applications and adopted across our organization.

Our ideal candidates will bring:

• Experience designing and building enterprise-scale integrations, APIs, or platform services in a regulated environment (healthcare, financial services, government, etc.)

• Experience with AI agents, MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool calling, or similar frameworks that connect AI systems to enterprise applications and data sources

• Experience translating business workflows into scalable AI-enabled solutions

If you're inspired by our mission- peace of mind through better health - and ready for a high-visibility, high-impact role, we hope you'll apply.

Note:

• Sponsorship is not available for this role.

• Final interviews at our Chattanooga, TN headquarters will be required.

Job Responsibilities

• Leadthe ideation, development, and productionalization of sophisticated AI solutions tailored for healthcare payer use cases.
• Architect, design, and implementcomplex, state-of-the-art AI models and algorithms, leveraging Python and cloud platforms like GCP Vertex AI.
• Partner strategicallywith product teams and business stakeholders todefine and prioritizeopportunities for applying advanced AI techniques to solve critical business challenges and drive process automation.
• Conductin-depth researchand maintain expertise in the latest advancements in AI,championing the adoptionof cutting-edge techniques and methodologies within the team.
• Architect and developrobust, scalable, and efficient systems and code bases for deploying AI models into production environments, ensuring high availability and performance.
• Serve as akey technical advisorto our internal Lines-of-Businesses, understanding complex needs, gathering requirements, and translating them into impactful, actionable AI solutions.
• Define and overseethe evaluation and validation frameworks for AI models, ensuring their accuracy, reliability, fairness, and performance exceed business requirements.
• Mentor and guidejunior engineers on best practices in AI development, model implementation, and system design.

Job Qualifications

Education

• 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.

Experience

• 5+ yearsof relevant work experience in analytics, technology, software engineering, or healthcare (academic experience included), or related equivalent experience.
• 3+ yearsof hands-on experience specifically with machine learning, deep learning, and preferablyAI 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).

Skills/Certifications

• Expert proficiencyin Python and relevant data science/ML libraries.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Proven ability toarchitect, design, and implement complex systems. Demonstrated successleading technically challenging projectsfrom conception through to deployment.
• Exceptional abilityto interpret and translate complex technical concepts into information meaningful to project team members, business personnel, and leadership.
• Strongtechnical leadershipandmentorshipcapabilities.
• Must be able to communicate effectively andinfluenceboth technical and non-technical co-workers and stakeholders.
• Highly organized, reliable, capable of managing multiple complex tasks, demonstrating an exceptional work ethic andstrategic thinking.

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