Principal Applied AI Engineer
HumanaUnited States
Posted December 17, 2025
172200 - 236900 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Humana Inc. is committed to putting health first for our teammates, customers, and company. We deliver care and service to millions of people with Medicare, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.
Job Description
Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. We are looking for a Principal Applied AI Engineer to lead the design and build of advanced generative AI systems and drive key business outcomes in healthcare delivery and member satisfaction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
- 10+ years of professional software or platform engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in Python, including building production services and shared libraries used by others.
- Hands-on experience with modern AI systems, including LLM integration, RAG, embeddings, and applied generative AI patterns.
- Strong background in machine learning engineering, including model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management.
- Expert-level understanding of FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks, and REST/gRPC service design.
- Strong proficiency with cloud-native development on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Minimum 5 years of containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern DevOps practices.
- Demonstrated ability to own large, ambiguous problems and deliver high-value, high-quality solutions.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
- Short-term and long-term disability
- Life insurance