Connect for Health Colorado is a public, non-profit entity that helps individuals and small employers access health insurance. The AI Developer/Engineer will support the Senior AI Developer/Engineer in designing and developing AI and machine learning capabilities to enhance internal operations and staff productivity.
Responsibilities:
- Support the Senior AI Developer/Engineer and CIO-sponsored initiatives by delivering enhancements, prototypes, and internal tools that improve staff efficiency and consumer support
- Collaborate with business owners and technical teams to gather requirements, document user stories/acceptance criteria, and translate needs into implementable AI/ML solutions
- Develop and enhance internal AI-enabled applications and demos using Streamlit and related web frameworks for knowledge assistance, workflow automation, and analytics
- Implement and maintain retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) solutions, including document ingestion, chunking, embeddings, vector search, and prompt orchestration
- Integrate AI applications with AWS services and data platforms, including Amazon Aurora/RDS PostgreSQL, S3, and approved AI services; follow security and access control standards
- Use Snowflake (including Snowflake Cortex where appropriate) to support AI/ML workloads, data preparation, and secure data access patterns
- Leverage Amazon Q (as applicable) and related enterprise assistant patterns to support internal users and knowledge discovery
- Contribute to semantic/domain models (taxonomies, metadata, reference data) that improve retrieval quality and reporting
- Write clean, testable Java code; build APIs/services; and contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
- Monitor AI application performance (quality, latency, cost) and assist with troubleshooting, incident response, and continuous improvement
- Ensure responsible AI practices: privacy, PII/PHI handling, bias awareness, auditability, and documentation; follow SOPs and security policies
- Participate in IT operations activities (standups, change management, documentation, knowledge transfer) and support end users with training and adoption
Requirements:
- Colorado resident
- 3+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience, including building production Java applications
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML or generative AI (LLMs, embeddings, RAG) through professional work, projects, or equivalent experience
- Experience building lightweight web apps or APIs using Streamlit, FastAPI/Flask, or similar frameworks
- Working knowledge of AWS (IAM, S3, logging/monitoring, and common deployment patterns); experience with PostgreSQL/Aurora/RDS preferred
- Experience with SQL and data platforms; familiarity with Snowflake and Snowflake Cortex is a plus
- Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD, and automated testing practices
- Understanding of secure software development and handling sensitive data; ability to follow organizational security/privacy requirements
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders to refine requirements and support user adoption
- Bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) preferred