Lead AI Engineer
Humana
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This role pays less than 78% of similar roles. Most pay $161,875–$235,762 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $154k versus about $199k for comparable roles.
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Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.
Humana currently has 60 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 22 roles with salary data.
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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 that automate decision-making and surface intelligent analysis across user-facing experiences. You will design multi-step agentic pipelines, integrate large language models like Claude and GPT, and develop evaluation frameworks to ensure reliability in a regulated healthcare environment. Key responsibilities include writing production code, managing prompt engineering, and implementing RAG patterns with vector search. You will utilize Python, Anthropic Claude APIs, and AI productivity tools like Copilot. The work focuses on integrating agentic AI into bespoke enterprise software to provide operational insights and automated workflows within a high-compliance business context.
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