Elevance Health is a health company dedicated to improving lives and communities, seeking an AI Machine Learning Scientist Associate to assist with product creation, development, and improvement through AI scientific methods. The role involves developing infrastructure systems, creating data collection frameworks, and supporting enterprise-scale AI initiatives.
Develops and maintains infrastructure systems that connect internal data sets.
Creates new data collection frameworks for structured and unstructured data.
Assists in leading enterprise-scale AI initiatives by designing horizontal capabilities such as RAG, evaluations-as-a-service, prompt/version control, guardrails, feature, and vector stores, adopted across business units.
Develops, analyzes, and models complex operational, clinical, and economic data, while delivering end-to-end ML systems (XGBoost / LightGBM) and LLM systems with clear SLOs.
Assists in building scalable solutions including cloud lakehouse (Databricks / Spark, SQL), streaming (Kafka/Kinesis), and API-first approaches; oversees serving technologies (vLLM / Triton / KServe / Ray / SageMaker).
Establishes and manages LLMOps / MLOps processes using tools like MLflow, CI/CD, and IaC, focusing on observability, drift detection, hallucination rates, and maintaining SLOs/SLAs.
Implements data leadership strategies that include data contracts, quality SLAs, and FHIR-aware design for PHI/PII, with a focus on embedding/vectorization strategies.
Develops Responsible AI frameworks including fairness/robustness evaluations, red-teaming, and model risk management, ensuring audit readiness (HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST).
Assists other Machine Learning Scientists with development and implementation of machine learning algorithms and data modeling.
Assists in determining cause and effect relations.
Qualification
Required
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in a highly quantitative field (Computer Science, Machine Learning, Operational Research, Statistics, Mathematics, etc.) or equivalent degree and 1 or more years of experience; or any combination of education and experience in configuration management, which would provide an equivalent background.
Preferred
Prefer Master’s or PhD. degrees in a quantitative field (or equivalent) and 2+ years of experience in building production ML/LLM systems.
Benefit
A comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Merit increases
Paid holidays
Paid Time Off
Incentive bonus programs
Medical
Dental
Vision
Short and long term disability benefits
401(k) +match
Stock purchase plan
Life insurance
Wellness programs
Financial education resources
Elevance Health is an integrated whole-health approach to help people in health journey and address their full range of needs.
