Senior Data Scientist

About the role

The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, advancing AI innovation enterprise-wide across Humana’s Insurance, CenterWell, Growth, and Corporate business segments. By collaborating with world-leading experts, we are at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge AI technologies to improve care quality and experience of millions of consumers. We are actively seeking top talent to develop robust and reusable AI modules and pipelines, ensuring adherence to best practices in accountable AI.

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist who will contribute to Generative AI initiatives at Humana, leveraging state-of-the-art LLMs to build applications. Our goal is to create safe AI solutions that will revolutionize and improve healthcare experience and outcomes for our customers. Join our rapidly expanding team of dedicated data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders as we work together to build impactful and beneficial AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop AI solutions using Python, AI/ML and generative models like LLMs, ensuring responsible development aligned with Humana’s ethical standards, focusing on transparency, safety, and real-world impact
• Build autonomous AI agents using frameworks (i.e. LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) to support reasoning and decision-making in healthcare
• Embed AI into Humana’s systems and workflows; partner with business teams to understand challenges, co-create solutions, and communicate AI capabilities clearly—especially around generative AI; design for scalability, reliability, and compliance
• Work with engineering and product teams to implement best practices for deploying and maintaining AI models in production
• Execute data science initiatives, including design, development, and implementation; collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high-impact AI use case solutions
• Develop and maintain advanced AI/machine learning models and algorithms
• Design and implement robust monitoring capabilities to maintain optimal performance and reliability
• Create reports, projections, models, and presentations to business stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5 years of applicable experience OR Master’s Degree and 3 or more years of experience preferably with a focus on developing production-ready AI solutions
• Experience with Agentic AI System Design
• Experience collaborating with MLOps and DevOps teams
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, PySpark, and data analysis/data mining tools
• Experience with machine learning frameworks like Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch
• Experience with high performance, large-scale ML systems
• Experience with language modeling with transformers
• Experience with large-scale ETL

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• Prior consulting experience

Office Location Options

• Louisville, KY
• Boston, MA
• New York, NY
• Dallas, TX
• Tampa, FL
• Washington, DC (Arlington, VA)

Pay

$117,600 – $161,700 per year

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

Benefits

• 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