Senior Applied AI Engineer (Agentic AI)

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 The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, driving AI innovation across our Insurance and CenterWell business segments. By collaborating with world-leading experts, we are at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge AI technologies for improving care quality and experience of millions of consumers. Our goal is to create safe AI solutions that will revolutionize and improve healthcare experience and outcomes for our customers.
We are actively seeking top talent to join us in shaping the future of healthcare through AI excellence. Join our rapidly expanding team of dedicated product managers, data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders as we work together to build impactful and beneficial AI systems.

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Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development skills and a proven track record of delivering scalable, production-grade full-stack applications.

• At least 3 years of experience building user-facing applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, Solid, or Angular, including development of responsive, accessible, and API-integrated user interfaces.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems utilizing contemporary AI SDKs, orchestration frameworks, and agentic architectures. Proficient in prompt engineering, model selection, context management, and generative AI deployment best practices.
• Direct experience developing AI-powered solutions such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings-based retrieval systems, AI agents, multi-agent workflows, or advanced conversational interfaces, including implementation of AI-specific testing, evaluation, safety, and quality assurance methodologies.
• Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, or comparable AI-enabled coding platforms, leveraging these tools for code acceleration, prototyping, debugging, and quality improvement.
• Strong understanding of AI system evaluation, observability, reliability, fallback strategies, safety guardrails, latency optimization, and rate-limit management within enterprise production environments.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents with tool invocation, memory, workflow orchestration, and multi-step reasoning capabilities in complex enterprise use cases.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience; or a Master’s degree in a similar field with a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders, excellent cross- functional collaboration skills enabling effective work with product managers, designers, clinicians, and compliance specialists, and demonstrated success working within regulated or high-accountability environments such as healthcare, finance, or government.
• Experience in healthcare industries

Additional Information

This position follows a hybrid work style and must be performed at one of our designated Tech Market locations: New York City; Louisville, KY; Dallas, TX

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested.
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.

 

$141,100 - $194,000 per year

 

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About Us
 About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

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