# Director of AI Engineering

**Company**: Humana Inc.
**Location**: Louisville, KY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $189,400 - $260,500 per year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking an accomplished Director of AI Engineering to lead the strategy, architecture, and delivery of enterprise-scale agentic AI capabilities within Humana's AI platform.

This leader will drive the development of foundational AI services, frameworks, and platforms that enable the organization to rapidly build, deploy, and scale next-generation AI solutions across diverse business domains.

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise in AI/ML engineering with proven leadership experience in building high-performing engineering organizations.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Team Leadership: Lead and grow a team of AI engineers building foundational services, frameworks, and tools for agentic AI applications.

- Industry Expertise: Stay current with industry trends in generative AI and help the team apply them effectively.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive cross-functional alignment with enterprise architecture, security, data engineering, DevOps, and application leads.

- Mentorship: Mentor and coach AI engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and career paths.

- Engineering Practices: Ensure strong engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and incident response.

- Strategic Planning: Define and drive strategic plans, goals, and team performance based on company-wide agentic AI initiatives.

- System Design: Lead collaboration with application teams to understand their needs and design systems which solve complex challenges with reusable components.

- Problem Solving: Work with broad guidelines and technical knowledge to solve highly complex problems with long-term impacts.

**Required Qualifications**

- Advanced degree (Ph.D. or Master’s) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

- 10+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

- Technical Skills: Proficiency in machine learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch), Python, and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Proven track record of leading and growing high-performing engineering teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to think strategically and execute methodically.

**Additional Information**

- This is a Hybrid office position where employees primarily operate from the company office with occasional work from home.

- Designated Tech Market locations for this role: New York City; Louisville, KY; Dallas, TX.

**Scheduled Weekly Hours**

- 40

**Pay Range**

- $189,400 - $260,500 per year

**Description of Benefits**

- Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries offer competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being, including medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

## Skills

### Required
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- Python
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Machine Learning
- AI Engineering

### Nice to have
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills

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