Lead AI Engineer

Humana

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$129,300–$177,800 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 9, 2026

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Below market

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This role $154k
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This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $153,296–$235,762 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $154k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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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 51 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 30 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead AI Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead AI Engineer - NBA The Lead AI Engineer owns the design and delivery of the NBA platform's agentic AI capabilities. In this hands-on engineering role, you will lead a small team of engineers and contractors to build production AI systems and intelligent analysis into user-facing experiences. You will design multi-step agentic pipelines, integrate large language models like Claude and GPT, and manage prompt engineering, tool use, and structured output handling. Key responsibilities include building evaluation frameworks for reliability in a regulated healthcare environment and developing RAG patterns with vector search. You will use Python to ship production-grade code and integrate AI into the Command and Control UI. The role focuses on automating decision-making and providing AI-powered insights within a complex, regulated business and operational context.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and own agentic AI workflows that provide intelligent analysis and automation across the platform.
  • Write and ship production-grade Python code for AI systems every sprint.
  • Architect multi-step agentic pipelines that integrate with the platform's data layer and activation channels.
  • Integrate large language models into workflows using prompt engineering, tool use, and context management.
  • Build evaluation frameworks to measure AI output quality, reliability, and safety in a regulated environment.
  • Manage AI engineering contractors by setting expectations, reviewing work, and ensuring quality standards.
  • Partner with frontend and product teams to integrate AI-powered recommendations into user-facing interfaces.
  • Model best practices for AI-assisted development tools across the broader engineering organization.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of software or ML engineering experience.
  • 1-2 years of experience focused on LLM integration, agentic AI, or AI product engineering.
  • Hands-on experience building production agentic systems, including multi-step pipelines and tool orchestration.
  • Experience with RAG patterns and vector search in production environments.
  • Strong Python engineering skills for building and shipping production-grade AI systems.
  • Experience integrating LLM APIs such as Anthropic or OpenAI into real applications.
  • Proven ability to lead a small team or pod and manage contractor resources.
  • Deep fluency with AI productivity tools like Claude or Copilot.

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