Gen AI Engineer III

Location: Atlanta, GA

This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Gen AI Engineer III is responsible for the delivery of end to end system development and maintenance on complex technology systems within assigned client group, business unit or corporate department.

How you will make an impact:

• Development on medium to large complex customer technology platforms or architectures, including agentic AI engineering technology.
• Daily or weekly use of AI coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex-style agents, or similar.
• Maintains active relationships with internal and/or external stakeholders to develop business requirements and integrate AI into workflows and delivery tools in partnership with Product Managers, Product Owners, Analysts, and Engineers.
• Analyzes and classifies complex change request and identifies and documents possible system/code enhancements; collaborates with engineers and graphic designers to review and evaluate possible enhancements.
• Works with development team to develop and define application scope and objectives and prepare functional and/or technical specifications.
• Analyzes and evaluates detailed business and technical requirements; understands the product and analytics and drives requirements that take into account stakeholders needs.
• Model evaluation and quality measurement; improves AI output quality through prompt optimization and model tuning (as applicable).
• Convert unstructured inputs into structured artifacts aligned to internal standards and historical patterns (e.g., requirements, specs, user stories, test cases).
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends, responsible AI, data privacy, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Identifies problems/risks and system deficiencies; supports continuous improvement of production stability.
• Codes and maintains complex components of information systems; mentors others on coding standards and performs code reviews.
• Partner with QA to review test cases, assess adjacent code/regression impact, and support defect triage/fixes through system testing and re-validation; develops and performs system testing, fixes defects identified during testing, and re-executes unit tests to validate results.
• Aids in integrating activities with other IT departments for successful implementation and support of project efforts.
• Support operational readiness: logging/monitoring, troubleshooting, incident support and on-call rotations (as needed); provides on call support, monitors the system, and identifies system deficiencies.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Requires an BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field of study and a minimum of 3 years experience on one platform, multi database, multi language or multi business application; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities and Experiences:

• Experience with US healthcare, payer, claims, clinical, HIPAA, PHI, regulated industry, or enterprise security experience preferred.
• Project experience including Agile project management, Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFE) preferred..
• Knowledge of Agile/SAFe delivery and portfolio management tools preferred..
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain AI concepts to non‑technical audiences preferred..
• Experience integrating AI into tools such as JIRA or similar delivery platforms preferred..
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including, cloud-native development, APIs and microservices, CI/CD, automated testing, and secure SDLC strongly preferred.
• Experience building or integrating AI agents, tool/function calling, RAG, memory, model routing, evaluations, guardrails, observability, and secure API/tool access strongly preferred.
• Experience with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including AgentCore Runtime, Memory, Identity, Gateway, Code Interpreter, Browser Tool, Observability, Evaluations, and Policy and is strongly preferred.
• Experience building LLM or SLM applications preferred..
• Ability to review, test, and harden AI-generated code preferred.
• Production support experience preferred.

Please be advised that Elevance Health only accepts resumes for compensation from agencies that have a signed agreement with Elevance Health. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Elevance Health.

Who We Are

Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities – and making healthcare simpler. We are a Fortune 25 company with a longstanding history in the healthcare industry, looking for leaders at all levels of the organization who are passionate about making an impact on our members and the communities we serve.

How We Work

At Elevance Health, we are creating a culture that is designed to advance our strategy but will also lead to personal and professional growth for our associates. Our values and behaviors are the root of our culture. They are how we achieve our strategy, power our business outcomes and drive our shared success - for our consumers, our associates, our communities and our business.

We offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Elevance Health operates in a Hybrid Workforce Strategy. Unless specified as primarily virtual by the hiring manager, associates are required to work at an Elevance Health location at least once per week, and potentially several times per week. Specific requirements and expectations for time onsite will be discussed as part of the hiring process.

The health of our associates and communities is a top priority for Elevance Health. We require all new candidates in certain patient/member-facing roles to become vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza. If you are not vaccinated, your offer will be rescinded unless you provide an acceptable explanation. Elevance Health will also follow all relevant federal, state and local laws.

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact elevancehealthjobssupport@elevancehealth.com for assistance.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws, including, but not limited to, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

Prospective employees required to be screened under Florida law should review the education and awareness resources at HB531 | Florida Agency for Health Care Administration.