Senior Software Engineer – AI Operations Team

Job overview

The Senior Software Engineer – AI Operations Team role is based in Des Moines, IA. Compensation is not specified. Wellmark is a mutual insurance company serving policyholders in Iowa and South Dakota, and its technology team is building modern solutions to improve customer experience and support organizational transformation. As a senior technical contributor on the AI Platform and Operations team, the engineer builds and operates Apollo, Wellmark’s governed foundation for enterprise AI adoption. The role strengthens platform capabilities, reliability, security, and operational practices while enabling teams to adopt AI responsibly at scale.

What you'll do

• Design, build, and operate AI platform capabilities including governed access, model routing, prompt management, agent orchestration, runtime services, tool execution, knowledge retrieval, evaluation, observability, guardrails, and cost management
• guide engineers through technical challenges
• promote architecture standards, automated testing, CI/CD, reusable SDKs, infrastructure-as-code, templates, and reference implementations
• collaborate with product, architecture, security, compliance, legal, data governance, cloud, and engineering teams
• mentor engineers and support analysis, implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior software engineer

ai operations team

ai platform

enterprise ai

ai governance

agent orchestration

model routing

observability

des moines ia

wellmark

cloud-native development

software engineering

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

The posting states Wellmark is not considering applicants who require immigration sponsorship now or in the future.

About the employer

Wellmark, Inc. is hiring for this role. Industry: Direct Health and Medical Insurance Carriers. Sector: 52.