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AI-Native Software Engineer

Elevance Health
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jul 2026
💰 $176,640/yr($112,640/yr$176,640/yr)

About the role

Anticipated End Date:

2026-08-14

Position Title:

AI-Native Software Engineer

Job Description:

AI-Native Software Engineer

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship

Location:  This role requires associates to be in-office 3 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 AI-Native Software Engineer will be responsible for shipping, evaluating, securing, and supporting real systems. The ideal candidate is a strong engineer who has real 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, codebase analysis, implementation, testing, documentation, code review, refactoring, deployment, and production support.

How you will make an impact:

  • Development on 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.

  • Model evaluation and quality measurement.

  • Maintains active relationships with internal and/or external stakeholder to develop business requirements.

  • Analyzes and classifies complex change request 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, analyzes and classifies complex change request and reviews and evaluates 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 drive requirements that take into account stakeholders 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 and 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 and monitors the system and identifies system deficiencies.


Minimum Requirements: 

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 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 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.

  • Ability to review, test, and harden AI-generated code.

  • Production support experience.

For candidates working in person or virtually in the below locations, the salary* range for this specific position is $112,640 to $176,640.

Location: Californ

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