Distinguished Engineer
Elevance Health
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This role pays more than 89% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$274,405 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $318k versus about $218k for comparable roles.
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Elevance Health (formerly Anthem, Inc.) is a leading American managed healthcare company and the largest for-profit entity in the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, serving approximately 115 million people through health plans and Carelon services.
Elevance Health currently has 11 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $236,396–$339,618 across 6 roles with salary data.
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The Distinguished Engineer - AI Adoption serves as a hands-on technical leader responsible for accelerating enterprise adoption of artificial intelligence by evaluating emerging technologies and designing reusable frameworks. This role involves partnering with internal teams and external vendors to assess capabilities, develop prototypes, and establish repeatable engineering patterns for high-value use cases. The individual will build agentic workflows, LLM applications, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI-assisted engineering tools while defining enterprise-wide standards for model selection, guardrails, and deployment. Key technical requirements include proficiency in Python or Java, experience with microservices, event-driven architectures, and modern DevOps practices. The role addresses the challenge of transitioning experimental AI ideas into scalable production environments by creating decision matrices and technical accelerators across cloud platforms to solve complex business problems through automated systems and intelligent decision support.
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