Senior Applied AI Software Engineer ( AI)

Humana

Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
New York, NYLouisville, KYFrisco, TX
Salary
$141,100–$194,000 / yr
Posted
8 days ago

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $199k
This role $168k
$129k most similar roles pay here $254k

This role pays less than 70% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$235,750 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $168k versus about $199k 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 $142,300–$195,700 across 20 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Applied AI Software Engineer ( AI)

As a senior software engineer in the Enterprise AI organization at Humana, you will join a dynamic team of experts to develop production-grade AI agents and GenAI applications for healthcare, focusing on agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, tool use, workflow automation, and personalized assistance. You will build secure, scalable AI services using frameworks like LangChain and Python APIs, while also optimizing prompt engineering and implementing evaluation frameworks for quality assurance. Collaborating closely with product, clinical, data, and compliance teams, you will ensure HIPAA-compliant delivery of impactful AI solutions. The role requires advanced proficiency in Python, modern frontend frameworks such as React or Vue, and experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems using contemporary SDKs and agentic architectures. Ideal candidates have a background in healthcare industries and can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

What you'll do

  • Develop production-grade AI agents and GenAI applications focusing on agent orchestration.
  • Build secure, scalable AI services using frameworks like LangChain and Python APIs.
  • Optimize prompt and context for quality improvement in AI systems.
  • Partner with clinical teams to deliver HIPAA-compliant AI solutions.
  • Implement advanced conversational interfaces and multi-agent workflows.
  • Design evaluation methodologies for safety and quality assurance of AI systems.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development.
  • At least 3 years building user-facing applications using modern frontend frameworks like React or Angular.
  • Demonstrated hands-on experience integrating AI/ML into production systems using contemporary SDKs and agentic architectures.
  • Experience developing AI-powered solutions such as RAG pipelines, embeddings-based retrieval systems, and conversational interfaces.
  • Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools for code acceleration, prototyping, debugging, and quality improvement.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related quantitative field plus 5 years of relevant professional experience.
  • Design and maintain autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents with tool invocation, memory, workflow orchestration capabilities.

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