AI-Native Software Engineer

AI‑Native Software Engineer

NOTE:

This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

Location
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This role requires associates to be in‑office 3 days per week. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance will not be considered unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The AI‑Native Software Engineer will be responsible for shipping, evaluating, securing, and supporting real systems. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer with hands‑on experience using AI to build and ship production‑quality software. They should be able to use AI agents and coding assistants across the SDLC: planning, design, code‑analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, code review, refactoring, deployment, and production support.

• Development on agentic AI engineering technology.
• Daily or weekly use of AI coding tools such as Git Hub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex‑style agents, or similar.
• Model evaluation and quality measurement.
• Maintains active relationships with internal and/or external stakeholders to develop business requirements.
• Analyzes and classifies complex change requests and identifies and documents possible system code enhancements.
• Demonstrates knowledge of industry trends, responsible AI, data privacy, and secure handling of sensitive information.
• Collaborates with engineers and graphic designers, and reviews and evaluates possible enhancements.
• Works with development team to define application scope and objectives and prepares 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 stakeholder needs.
• Identifies problems/risks.
• Codes and maintains complex components of information systems.
• Mentors others on coding standards and performs code reviews.
• Reviews test cases and advises QA on adjacent code/regression impact.
• 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.
• Provides on‑call support, monitors the system, and identifies system deficiencies.

Requires a BA/BS degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field 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.

• Experience with healthcare, payer, claims, clinical, HIPAA, PHI, regulated industry, or enterprise security experience.
• 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 Agent Core, including Agent Core Runtime, Memory, Identity, Gateway, Code Interpreter, Browser Tool, Observability, Evaluations, and Policy and is strongly preferred.
• Experience building LLM or SLM applications.
• Ability to review, test, and harden AI‑generated code.
• Production support experience.

Salary range: $112,640 to $176,640.

Location:

California, Colorado, Minnesota.

In addition to your salary, Elevance Health offers benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401(k) contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).

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 elevancehealthj 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.