# Lead AI Engineer

**Company**: Humana Inc.
**Location**: Remote Nationwide
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $129,300 - $177,800 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design and delivery of the NBA platform's agentic AI capabilities. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will be a significant individual contributor building production AI systems every sprint. You will also lead a small team of engineers and contractors focused on bringing AI-powered workflows and intelligent analysis into the platform's user-facing experiences.

**Responsibilities:**

- Agentic AI delivery: design, build, and own AI agent workflows that surface intelligent analysis, recommendations, and automation across the NBA platform's user interfaces and internal tooling

- Hands-on development: actively write and ship production code alongside your team

- AI workflow design: architect multi-step agentic pipelines that integrate with the platform's data layer, decisioning outputs, and activation channels to deliver meaningful AI-driven experiences

- LLM integration: own the integration of large language models (Claude, GPT, or equivalents) into platform workflows

- User-facing AI experiences: partner with frontend and product teams to bring AI-powered analysis and recommendations into the Command and Control UI and other operator-facing surfaces

- Evaluation and reliability: build evaluation frameworks to measure AI output quality and ensure agentic workflows are reliable, auditable, and safe in a regulated healthcare environment

- Contractor management: manage AI engineering contractors within your pod

- AI productivity tooling: model best practices for AI-assisted development across the broader engineering organization

**Requirements:**

- 6+ years of software or ML engineering experience with at least 1-2 years focused on LLM integration, agentic AI, or AI product engineering

- Hands-on experience building production agentic systems

- Experience with RAG patterns and vector search

- Strong Python engineering skills

- Experience integrating LLM APIs into real applications

- Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources

- Strong judgment on when AI is the right tool and when it is not

- Clear communicator

- Deep fluency with AI productivity tools

**Benefits:**

- Competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being

- Medical, dental, and vision benefits

- 401(k) retirement savings plan

- Time off, including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave

- Short-term and long-term disability

- Life insurance

**Pay Range:**

$129,300 - $177,800 per year

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- LLM integration
- agentic AI
- AI product engineering
- RAG patterns
- vector search
- AI productivity tools

### Nice to have
- multi-agent systems
- enterprise software integration
- AI-powered analytics
- regulated industries
- AI evaluation frameworks

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