Sr. AI Delivery & Operations Engineer at Vizient
Chicago, IL
$102,400–$179,000from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Chicago, IL
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level AI engineering role serving as the primary technical contributor for an enterprise AI delivery squad at a healthcare-focused company. The position involves designing, building, deploying, and operating AI-powered applications — including RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and LLM-backed APIs — while establishing engineering standards, CI/CD automation, and AIOps/LLMOps practices. Suits an experienced software engineer with hands-on production AI development experience in regulated or enterprise environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
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Why we read it this way (7)
The job title is not stated explicitly; the career framework label 'Professional - Senior Associate (P3)' is the basis for mapping this to a Senior-level role.
Location is not specified in the posting; no CBSA or state could be determined. The role may be remote or hybrid — remote=false is set conservatively since no explicit remote designation was given.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience preferred' — this is a preference, not a hard gate, so degree requirement is set to None.
OpenAI is listed as one example in a required 'or comparable' clause alongside Azure OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini; all four are captured with OpenAI as the primary and the others as alternatives.
RAG, agentic AI, prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and guardrails appear under an explicit 'preferred' qualifier in the qualifications section.
The posting notes the role is incentive eligible in addition to the stated base salary range.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API development, infrastructure automation.
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