Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska

Senior Software Engineer - Applied AI

US-Anywhere
+ 9 other locationsRemote
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field.
  • 4-7 years of software engineering experience.
  • 2-3 years building and operating production multi-agent AI systems.
  • Experience with LangGraph or similar orchestration methods in production environments.
  • Strong knowledge of Python and Azure technologies.
  • Background in healthcare, insurance, fintech, or legal sectors.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a multi-agent orchestration layer using LangGraph.
  • Create standardized agent integration contracts for pluggable agent functionality.
  • Manage context across multi-turn conversations during agent handoffs.
  • Develop guardrails for clinical safety and compliance in agent responses.
  • Define RAG pipeline architecture for effective content retrieval.
  • Establish a versioned prompt architecture with structured output contracts.

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work arrangement with one day in the office weekly.
  • Opportunity for travel to headquarters for candidates in approved states.
  • Focus on employee diversity and inclusivity in the workplace.
Full Job Description
Health insurance is one of the most confusing, high-stakes experiences people navigate. Members don't understand their coverage, can't predict costs, and struggle to get answers when it matters most. We're building the AI platform that changes that-a member experience that feels like having an expert in your corner. It's already live. It's already helping people. And it's just getting started.

The next chapter is multi-agent: specialized AI agents collaborating to answer clinical questions, navigate prior authorizations, close care gaps, and guide members through their benefits. The orchestration architecture, the agent integration patterns, the evaluation systems that keep it all trustworthy at scale-that's what we're building together. You'll shape how it's designed and set the standard for how it grows.

The ideal candidate will live within driving distance of the Omaha, Nebraska office. This position allows remote flexibility but will have 1 day per week in the office.

If living in one of our approved states (Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Texas) - this person may travel to our headquarters.

What You'll Do:

Your primary focus is agent design and orchestration.

  • Multi-agent orchestration layer. Design and build the LangGraph-based system that classifies member intent and routes to the right agent. Stateful, context-preserving, failure-tolerant. Handles commercial agents and internally built capabilities through the same interface.
  • Agent integration contract. The standardized pattern that makes any agent pluggable: input schema, output schema, confidence signaling, latency SLA, fallback behavior. When the team integrates a new agent, they follow a pattern you designed.
  • Context management across turns. Multi-turn conversations that maintain full member context across agent handoffs. The member asks a follow-up two turns later; the platform knows what was said, which agent handled it, and what was retrieved.
  • Guardrail and safety layer. Clinical safety boundaries, PHI handling at the LLM layer, and response normalization ensuring every agent response arrives in a consistent tone and within compliance constraints regardless of which agent generated it.
  • RAG pipeline architecture. Benefits documents, formularies, and policy content retrieval via Azure AI Search. You define the ingestion strategy, chunking approach, hybrid search configuration, and retrieval quality standards.
  • Prompt architecture. Versioned prompt registry, structured output contracts, few-shot pattern design. Every prompt is testable, rollback-able, and understandable by the team.


To be considered for this position you must have:

  • Bachelor's degree and 4-7 years of experience in software engineering.


Experience with agentic AI in production-not LLM wrappers, not single-agent chatbot demos, not RAG tutorials. Systems with multiple agents, explicit state management, and real users depending on the answers being correct.

  • 2-3 years building and operating production LLM or agentic AI systems
  • You can describe specific decisions you made in a multi-agent system: state management approach, how you handled agent failures mid-conversation, how you kept the system governable as agents were added
  • LangGraph, AutoGen, or custom graph-based orchestration used in production, not just evaluated. You know where it breaks down and how you worked around it
  • Debugged retrieval quality problems, iterated on chunking strategies, dealt with stale knowledge bases in a live system with real users
  • Built evaluation systems from scratch: golden datasets, automated regression, domain-appropriate accuracy metrics. Your eval suite caught a production regression before users reported it
  • Experience in healthcare, insurance, fintech, or legal domains-AI systems where a wrong answer has consequences, and you designed the safeguards that make accuracy non-negotiable
  • Strong knowledge of Python. Work in an existing codebase and extend it with the AI layer
  • Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Container Apps are the target stack


The strongest candidates will also have:

  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment.
  • Desire to think in a creative, lateral way both conceptually and in practical application.
  • You must be obsessed with addressing customer needs.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Possess emotional intelligence.


The Stack

Python / FastAPI • LangGraph • Azure OpenAI / Claude via Azure • Azure AI Search • Azure Container Apps • LlamaIndex • LangSmith • Azure App Insights • PostgreSQL • Redis

Learn more about what makes BCBSNE such an exceptional place to work by visiting NebraskaBlue.com/Careers.

We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspective and background will lead to a better workplace for our employees and a better product for our customers and members.

About Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska (BCBSNE) is a non-profit health insurance company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The company provides health insurance coverage to individuals, families, and businesses in Nebraska. BCBSNE offers a variety of health insurance plans, including individual and family plans, Medicare supplement plans, and employer group plans. The company was founded in 1939 and has since grown to over 800 employees.
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