This role pays more than
75%
of similar roles. Most pay
$177,900–$246,150
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$245k
versus about
$212k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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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
20 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$129,300–$177,800
across 20 roles with salary data.
As a Principal AI Engineer within the AI Applied Engineering organization, you will serve as a high-level individual contributor defining technical strategy, architectural standards, and long-term vision for AI-enabled products. You will be responsible for building systems that transform clinical documents into actionable data using large language models to extract facts, answer questions with citations, and route cases to experts. Your daily work involves prototyping, experimentation, and software development to solve challenges in trust, explainability, and reliability within a regulated healthcare environment. You will utilize Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, Gemini on Vertex AI, OCR, Document AI, Docker, and Kubernetes. Key responsibilities include establishing engineering standards for RAG, agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks while mentoring other engineers and influencing enterprise-wide decisions regarding model strategies, vendor selections, and infrastructure capabilities to ensure secure, compliant production systems.
What does a AI Engineer earn in New York?
Median $246150 from 73 postings across 9 companies.