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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.\nWhat 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.\nMcKesson is transforming healthcare experiences through AI-powered digital agents. As a Digital Agent Developer, you will design, build, test, and continuously improve conversational AI solutions that support customers and business teams across voice, chat, and email channels.\nYou will work within the Sierra Agent OS ecosystem to create reusable agent patterns, optimize customer interactions, and improve AI performance through testing, analytics, and iterative tuning. This role partners closely with platform engineers, solution architects, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and effective AI-powered experiences.\nThis role sits on McKesson's Contact Center AI team, which is using AI and digital agent capabilities to transform and improve the end-to-end customer journey across voice, chat, and email for McKesson's businesses. The team designs, builds, and runs digital agents on Sierra Agent OS and connects them to the contact center and enterprise systems around them. This is the role where new agents and new capabilities get built and existing ones get better. Sierra is a new platform, so hands-on Sierra experience is a plus, not a requirement; we will ramp you on it. What we do need is real experience building AI agents: prompts, tool calling, handoffs, testing, and the judgment to know when an agent is wrong.\nWHAT YOU’LL DO\nDesign, configure, and optimize conversational AI agents within Sierra Agent OS.\nBuild reusable reference models and design patterns for multiple business use cases.\nDevelop and refine agent experiences across voice, chat, and email channels.\nAnalyze conversation data and performance metrics to improve accuracy, containment, and customer outcomes.\nCreate and optimize prompts, workflows, decision logic, and handoff experiences.\nCollaborate with platform engineers and solution architects on multi-LLM orchestration strategies.\nSupport testing, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of AI agent solutions.\nRun agent simulations and regression tests before each release, and review production conversations where the agent fell short to find the cause and fix it.\nWork with the integration and platform teams on the APIs and tools the agents call (account lookup, order status, case creation, appointment scheduling) and on how the agent should behave when those calls fail.\nMaintain agent documentation, test cases, and the support runbooks that the service desk and L3 support teams rely on.\nFollow enterprise security, compliance, documentation, and governance standards.\nBASIC REQUIREMENTS\n 2+ years of experience building AI agents or conversational AI solutions (LLM-based assistants, chatbots, voicebots), or in AI/ML or software development with hands-on agent work.\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Data Science, or equivalent experience.\nHands-on experience designing, building, or tuning LLM-based AI agents or digital assistants, including prompts, tool and function calling, workflows, guardrails, and handoff to a human agent.\nHands-on experience with prompt engineering, conversational design, intent modeling, or Natural Language Understanding (NLU).\nWorking knowledge of agentic AI patterns: multi-step tool use, retrieval (RAG), evaluation and testing of agents, and the ways an agent can fail in production. This can come from any agent platform; Sierra experience is a plus, not a requirement.\nExperience analyzing data and leveraging insights to improve AI performance and user outcomes.\nKnowledge of APIs, JSON, and modern software development practices, including the ability to read API responses, logs, and conversation transcripts to work out why an agent behaved the way it did.\nFamiliarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and testing methodologies.\nStrong problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.\nPREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE\nExperience with multi-agent systems, agent frameworks or SDKs (e.g., LangGraph, OpenAI Agents SDK, Bedrock Agents, Vertex Agent Builder), or MCP-based tool integration.\nHands-on experience with Sierra Agent OS (a new platform; we will train the right candidate), or with other agent platforms such as Salesforce Agentforce, Google CCAI/Dialogflow, Amazon Lex/Connect, Kore.ai, or Microsoft Copilot Studio.\nHands-on experience with voice AI, chatbots, virtual assistants, or customer-service automation solutions.\nKnowledge of multi-LLM routing, orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or AI evaluation frameworks.\nExperience in healthcare, regulated industries, or enterprise-scale environments.\nExposure to analytics and monitoring tools used to evaluate conversational AI performance.\nExperience with simulation-based or automated testing of conversational agents (e.g., Tosca or custom test harnesses).\nFamiliarity with the systems a contact center agent typically integrates with: Five9 or another CCaaS platform, Salesforce Service Cloud, SAP, or MuleSoft APIs.\nExperience collaborating with product, architecture, platform engineering, and business teams.\nFamiliarity with cloud-native application development and integration patterns.\nTRAVEL / WORK LOCATION / PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS\nMinimal travel, based on business needs.\nHybrid or remote work arrangements subject to business and team requirements.\nAbility to work at a computer and participate in virtual and in-person meetings for extended periods.\nWe are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.\nOur Base Pay Range for this position\n$81,500 - $108,600McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:\nMcKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.\nMcKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.\nMcKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.\nMcKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nMcKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.\nMcKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States)  or (Canada) . 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