Lead AI Engineer
Full-time
US
Oct 29, 2026
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About the Role
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you. About the Team Our AI Enablement team drives enterprise-wide adoption of generative AI, spanning platform engineering, governance, and hands-on delivery of AI-powered products and internal tooling. The team builds and operates the infrastructure, integrations, and knowledge systems that let engineering and business teams safely adopt large language models at scale. The Lead AI Engineer joins as the senior technical authority on this team, setting the architectural direction that Senior and Associate AI Engineers build against. Position Summary The Lead AI Engineer provides technical leadership and architecture ownership for the company's AI platform and its embedded delivery initiatives, operating one level above the Senior AI Engineer role. This person owns the technical design of agentic and LLM-powered systems built on large language model APIs, including retrieval-augmen