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Premera Blue Cross

AI Integrity Engineer

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Telecommuter

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We are seeking an AI Integrity Engineer to strengthen security across our evolving AI, Cloud, and Data ecosystems. This role partners with Enterprise Engineering to architect and secure modern application and infrastructure ecosystems. By bridging the gap between Platform Engineering and AI Security, you will lead the development of secure AI pipelines, agentic workflows, and robust data warehouse protections. You’ll work cross-functionally to build scalable, resilient foundations that embed AI-specific guardrails directly into the enterprise fabric.

This is a hands-on contributor role supporting teams building AI services by establishing secure identity, access, guardrails, and lifecycle controls for autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents.

This role may be hired into at a Level III or IV, depending upon experience. This is a telecommuter position, working from home.

What you’ll do:

Application Security:

SAST & DAST Implementation: Design and manage Static and Dynamic Application Security Testing pipelines to detect security flaws early in the lifecycle.
Vulnerability Remediation: Lead regular vulnerability scans of codebases and containers. Analyze results, prioritize critical issues, and partner with engineering teams to drive remediation.
Secure Supply Chain: Manage artifact security and dependency scanning using Artifact and Dependency Scanning tools.

AI Security & Governance:

Protect AI Assets: Secure data pipelines, models, and agents from threats such as prompt injection, model hijacking, data-poisoning, and trojaned instructions.
Secure RAG Pipelines: Enforce retrieval integrity, document ingestion safety, and data-access controls to prevent indirect prompt injection and data leakage.
Secure Interaction: Enable secure agent-tool interaction using frameworks such as MCP by implementing strong authentication, authorization, and scoped tool-permission boundaries.
Guardrails & Safety: Deploy and maintain AI guardrails, including safety filters, task adherence controls, scoped action permissions, and prompt-shielding mechanisms.
Threat Modeling: Perform AI-specific threat modeling focused on jailbreaks, adversarial inputs, indirect prompt attacks, and non-deterministic system behavior.
Compliance: Support cross-team compliance efforts by ensuring audit trails, usage governance, and adherence to emerging AI control frameworks.

AI Identity, Access & Authentication:

Implement identity governance frameworks tailored for AI agents, such as ephemeral authentication, attribute-based access control (ABAC), and just-in-time provisioning.
Manage M2M/OIDC/OAuth identity configurations for per-application agent authentication, including scopes, claims, client credentials, and automated key/secret rotation.
Configure Azure Entra Agent IDs (or similar) to issue trackable, short-lived identities for unique agents.
Implement governance around credential lifecycle, preventing agent credential sprawl.

Secure Agent Tooling & Workflow Controls:

Administer and maintain the MCP Registry or equivalent systems to govern secure access to tools and APIs for agent workflows.
Monitor and govern agent tool selection, ensuring safe invocation boundaries and preventing privilege escalation within automated workflows.
Support controlled integration of agents with internal services without owning traditional infrastructure security functions (e.g., firewall administration, IDS/IPS tuning).

Data Protection & Observability:

Implement PII detection, redaction workflows, and DLP controls natively within agentic systems.
Maintain auditability for agent actions, identity transitions, tool use, and retrieval events.
Monitor AI-related logs, security signals, and performance anomalies; support anomaly detection without requiring deep SIEM engineering or incident-response forensics.

Platform & Infrastructure (AI-Focused Support Only):

Support secure configuration of AI Gateways for model routing, rate-limiting, tenant isolation, and guardrail policy execution.
Support IaC-based configuration reviews for AI workloads without owning broad enterprise infrastructure hardening.

What you’ll bring:

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; or 2+ years of experience in a related, professional IT/analytics position. (Required for Level III and Level IV)
(3) years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered master’s/PhD degree or AI Engineering certifications. (Required for Level III)
(5) years of industry experience in developing, deploying, and maintaining AI or ML systems. Up to two years of industry experience may be substituted with an AI centered master’s/PhD degree or AI Engineering certifications. (Required for Level IV)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience securing data within Data Warehouse Platform environments.
Proficiency with Cloud Provider DevOps Platform for CI/CD pipelines and board management.
CISSP, GIAC, GSEC, and/or SSCP security certification (or ability to obtain).
Experience with ABAC, ephemeral identity, OIDC/OAuth, and JIT access provisioning for automated workloads.
Familiarity with AI agent frameworks, guardrails, RAG patterns, and AI-specific risks.
MCP or similar tool-registry configuration experience.
Understanding of AI orchestration, agentic system architectures, and secure agent workflow design.
Experience implementing AI-specific DLP, prompt-shielding, and PII-detection controls.
Identity security, DevSecOps, or platform-security support.
IAM, access governance, security automation, or comparable disciplines (not requiring legacy networking expertise).

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Strong conceptual reasoning about AI-specific risks and emergent behaviors.
Ability to translate AI safety and security requirements into actionable guidance for engineering teams.
Excellent communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
Commitment to responsible, secure AI adoption.
Proficient at ethical AI practices including explainable AI, fairness, and mitigation of bias/hallucinations.
Strong mentorship skills.
Ability to articulate the technical details and tradeoffs of AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.

Physical Requirements

This is primarily a sedentary role which requires the ability to exert up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body.
This role requires the ability to keyboard and to communicate clearly and understandably in person and over the telephone.

National Salary Range (Level III):

$118,900 - $202,100

National Plus Salary Range (Level III):

$135,600 - $230,500

National Salary Range (Level IV):

$131,900 - $237,400

National Plus Salary Range (Level IV):

$150,300 - $270,500

National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.

Premera total rewards

Our comprehensive total rewards package provides support, resources, and opportunities to help employees thrive and grow. Our total rewards are more than a collection of perks, they're a reflection of our commitment to your health and well-being. We offer a broad array of rewards including physical, financial, emotional, and community benefits, including:

Medical, vision, and dental coverage with low employee premiums.
Voluntary benefit offerings, including pet insurance for paw parents.
Life and disability insurance.
Retirement programs, including a 401K employer match and, believe it or not, a pension plan that is vested after 3 years of service.
Wellness incentives with a wide range of mental well-being resources for you and your dependents, including counseling services, stress management programs, and mindfulness programs, just to name a few.
Generous paid time off to reenergize.
Looking for continuing education? We have tuition assistance for both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Employee recognition program to celebrate anniversaries, team accomplishments, and more.

For our hybrid employees, our on-campus model provides flexibility to create your own routine with access to on-site resources, networking opportunities, and team engagement.

Commuter perks make your trip to work less impactful on the environment and your wallet.
Free convenient on-site parking.
Subsidized on-campus cafes make lunchtime connections with colleagues fun and affordable.
Participate in engaging on-site activities such as health and wellness events, coffee connects, disaster preparedness fairs and more.
Our complementary fitness & well-being center offers both in-person and virtual workouts and nutritional counseling.
Need a brain break? Challenge someone to a game of shuffleboard or ping pong while on campus.

Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action:

Premera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Premera seeks to attract and retain the most qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

If you need an accommodation to apply online for positions at Premera, please contact Premera Human Resources via email at careers@premera.com or via phone at 425-918-4785.

Premera is hiring in the following states, with some limitations based on role or city: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin.

The pay for this role will vary based on a range of factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographic location, market conditions, and specific skills and experience.

The salary range for this role is posted below; we generally target up to and around the midpoint of the range.

National Salary Range:

$131,900.00 - $237,400.00

National Plus Salary Range:

$150,300.00 - $270,500.00

National Plus salary range is used in higher cost of labor markets including Western Washington and Alaska.

We’re happy to discuss compensation further during the interview because we believe that open communication leads to better outcomes for all. We’re committed to creating an environment where all employees are celebrated for their unique skills and contributions.

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