This role pays less than
55%
of similar roles. Most pay
$172,900–$246,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$203k
versus about
$210k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
About Humana
Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.
Humana currently has
20 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$129,300–$177,800
across 20 roles with salary data.
Lead AI Engineer
The Lead AI Engineer joins the team to provide technical leadership for AI-enabled products and platforms within a highly regulated healthcare environment. This role involves defining architectural direction, establishing engineering standards, and personally designing and building critical components like LLM pipelines, retrieval systems, agentic workflows, and human-in-the-loop processes. The engineer will manage high-risk challenges regarding reliability, explainability, and correctness while mentoring other engineers through code reviews and technical guidance. Key responsibilities include managing model selection, system boundaries, and evaluation methodologies to ensure scalable, auditable solutions. The role requires proficiency in Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, and PostgreSQL, alongside experience with Gemini on Vertex AI, OCR technologies, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure. The work focuses on transforming clinical documents into actionable data using large language models to support critical healthcare decisions for a large member population.