Solution ArchitectAI Engineer V
Solution ArchitectAI Engineer V
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$ 175600 - 316100
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Workforce Classification:
HybridJoin Our Team: Do Meaningful Work and Improve Peoples Lives
Our purpose to improve customers lives by making healthcare work better is far from ordinary. And so are our employees. Working at Premera means you have the opportunity to drive real change by transforming healthcare.
To better serve our customers we are fostering a culture that emphasizes employee growth collaborative innovation and inspired leadership. We are dedicated to creating an environment where employees can excel and where top talent is attracted retained and thrives. As a testament to these efforts Premera has been recognized on the 2025 Americas Dream Employers list. In 2024 Newsweek honored Premera as one of Americas Greatest Workplaces Americas Greatest Workplaces for Diversity and Americas Greatest Workplaces for Mental Wellbeing. Additionally in 2024 Forbes ranked Premera among Americas Best Midsize Employers for the fourth time.
Learn how Premera supports our members customers and the communities that we serve through our Healthsource blog: a Solution Architect/AI Engineer V youll embody thought leadership make commitments and lead staff executives and external stakeholders to solve complex business issues and systems. Operating independently with minimal direction youll navigate AI/ML solutions from concept to full production. Your visionary approach will drive ideation and prototyping of new AI products utilizing sophisticated tools and technologies. Leading the enterprise in developing and deploying ML algorithms youll ensure a robust AI infrastructure fostering continuous learning and innovation across crossfunctional teams propelling the organization to new heights in the AI/ML domain.
This is a hybrid role located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace WA.
What youll do:
Design and ensure the development of comprehensive systems and frameworks for AI applications and products.
Pitch concepts to leaders on all levels of the organization as well as externally and then lead construction of prototypes and minimum viable products to validate AI/ML solutions before committing substantial resources.
Lead the design and implementation of complex multicloud architectures that power sophisticated AI systems.
Create the underlying data pipeline architectures feeding logging and training complex AI systems.
Develop specifications for low latency APIs and services necessary to deploy AI models and incorporate them into applications.
Design the oversight plans and processes for managing deployed models and AI systems.
Foster within the team principled agilelike development practices.
Develop teamwide documentation practices that will ensure adherence to corporate policies and expectations. Apply those standards to ensure thorough and maintained documentation for all work products.
Develop and ensure peer review standards and procedures for all work within the team.
Ensure AI engineers follow AI/ML and industry best practices and methodologies.
Keep abreast of new tools and concepts through reading documentation or literature and actively practice skills development.
Advise senior leadership and executives on matters such as enterprise AI strategies AI related technology strategies and roadmaps AI related infrastructure strategies and roadmaps.
Make AI solution commitments on behalf of Premera to external stakeholders that realize business value and ensure AI governance adherence AI best practices and data quality.
Provide thought leadership internally. Contribute externally to the AI community or the healthcare community at large.
Support or guide technical direction of project initiatives collaborating with the rest of the design team and stakeholders ensuring that development milestones and deadlines are met. Provide feedback and advice on peer designs in an open and collaborative environment mentor other engineering staff and act as technical and business leader sharing knowledge and expertise with others inside team as well as with other stakeholders. Proactively contribute to knowledge sharing across Premera developer community.
Influence change and evolution in IT standards practices and processes and drive application of engineering best practices for your team.
Stay current in industry trends and contribute to expanding the knowledge and skills of peers and teammates while researching and gaining understanding of innovative technology solutions and identifying their application to the organizations business. Actively mentor individuals and teams and participate in internal and external opportunities to increase knowledge on advanced technical issues; help managers guide career growth of their team members; research and benchmark our technology against competing systems in the industry.
What youll bring:
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Statistics Mathematics or a related field; or 2 years of experience in a related professional IT/analytics position.
Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in developing deploying and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered Masters/Ph.D. or AI Engineering certifications.
Preferred Qualifications
At least 8 years of experience in developing deep learning models using TensorFlow PyTorch MLX JAX or other modern deep learning frameworks. Previous experience with older libraries like Theano or Caffe is also accepted. (May supplement with graduate level education or research experience).
Experience with design patterns and microservices architecture including at least 5 years with container orchestration in a production environment.
Knowledge of and experience in implementing ethical AI practices with at least 5 years spent working on projects that require explainable AI fairness and bias mitigation.
At least 8 years of experience with demonstrated mastery over a wide range of AI technologies. A proven thought leader with published research and artifacts that advance the field of AI. Possess a proven track record of leading largescale AI projects.
Minimum of 5 years of experience in successfully productionizing AI models including constructing scalable data pipelines and establishing robust monitoring systems.
Minimum of 5 years demonstrating excellent communication skills through the ability to articulate complex AI solutions to nontechnical stakeholders coupled with a history of collaborative work and mentorship in Agilelike environments.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
Expertise in developing deep learning architectures such as CNNs transformers GANs LSTMs GNNs Autoencoders Diffusion Models and Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs).
Mastery over a wide range of prompt engineering techniques tools and libraries to innovate in the field of prompt engineering to solve complex problems. Possess a proven track record of leading largescale prompt engineering projects optimizing prompt engineering pipelines.
Mastery at debugging AI systems and enhancing performance through hyperparameter tuning and similar techniques.
Proven experience in productionizing models by constructing scalable data pipelines lowlatency services and robust monitoring.
Knowledgeable about software design patterns microservices distributed computing container orchestration and other relevant architectures.
Excellent software engineering skills as well as mastery building secure stable software systems at scale.
Proven experience developing and optimizing ML solutions using languages like Python and libraries such as NumPy Pandas Matplotlib and scikitlearn.
Familiarity working with traditional ML lifecycles.
Solid knowledge of ethical AI practices including explainable AI fairness and mitigation of bias/hallucinations.
Excellent communication collaboration mentorship and team leadership skills.
Skilled at leading Agilelike teams and environments.
Ability to articulate the technical details and tradeoffs of AI solutions to executives and other nontechnical stakeholders in a clear concise and compelling manner.
Premera total rewards
Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support resources and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks theyre a reflection of our commitment to your health and wellbeing. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical financial emotional and community benefits including:
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 believe it or not a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental wellbeing 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.
Looking for continuing education We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries team accomplishments and more.
For our hybrid employees our oncampus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to onsite resources networking opportunities and team engagement.
Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
Free convenient onsite parking.
Subsidized oncampus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
Engaging onsite events and activities include food trucks health and wellness DEI and disaster preparedness fairs coffee connects and more.
Our complementary fitness & wellbeing center offers both inperson and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
Need a brain break Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.
Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:
Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability marital status veteran status gender or gender identity sexual orientation genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera please contact Premera Human Resources via email at or via phone at.
The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including but not limited to a candidates geographic location market conditions and specific skills and experience.
The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.
National Plus Salary Range:
$175600.00 $316100.00*National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.
Were happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. Were committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.
Employment Type
Full-Time
