Senior Applied AI Software Engineer ( AI)

About the role

The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, driving AI development across our Insurance and CenterWell business segments. By collaborating with world-experts, we deliver the latest AI technologies for improving care quality and experience of millions of consumers. Our goal is to create safe AI solutions to improve and improve healthcare experience and outcomes for our customers. We are looking for top talent to join us in shaping the future of healthcare through AI excellence.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-grade AI agents and GenAI applications for healthcare, with emphasis on agent orchestration, RAG, tool use, workflow automation, and personalized assistance.
• Develop secure, scalable AI services using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Semantic Kernel, plus Python APIs and modern web integration.
• Improve quality through prompt and context optimization, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop validation.
• Partner with product, clinical, data, and compliance teams to deliver measurable value in HIPAA-compliant environments.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development experience 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.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems using contemporary AI SDKs, orchestration frameworks, and agentic architectures.
• Proficient in prompt engineering, model selection, context management, and generative AI deployment best practices.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, or comparable AI-enabled coding platforms, applying these tools for code acceleration, prototyping, debugging, and quality improvement.
• Experience with 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline, accompanied by at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• Alternatively, a Master's degree in a similar field, accompanied by 3 years of relevant experience.

Skills

• Advanced Python development experience.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks like React, Vue, Solid, or Angular.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into production systems.
• Prompt engineering, model selection, context management, and generative AI deployment best practices.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.
• Experience with AI system evaluation, observability, reliability, fallback strategies, safety guardrails, latency optimization, and rate-limit management.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Life insurance.
• Many other opportunities.

Pay Range

$141,100 - $194,000 per year

About Us

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.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements.