Senior Applied AI Software Engineer ( AI)
Role details
Job location
Tech stack
Job description
Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development experience delivering scalable, production-grade full-stack applications.
- We require at least 3 years of experience building user-facing applications. We must build these applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, Solid, or Angular. Additionally, the development of responsive, accessible, and API-integrated user interfaces is necessary.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems using contemporary AI SDKs, orchestration frameworks, and agentic architectures. Proficient in prompt engineering, model selection, context management, and generative AI deployment best practices.
- I have direct experience developing AI-powered solutions, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and embeddings-based retrieval systems. These solutions also include AI agents, multi-agent workflows, and advanced conversational interfaces. Additionally, I have implemented AI-specific testing, evaluation, safety, and quality assurance methodologies.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, or comparable AI-enabled coding platforms, applying these tools for code acceleration, prototyping, debugging, and quality improvement.
- Experience with AI system evaluation, observability, reliability, fallback strategies, safety guardrails, latency optimization, and rate-limit management within enterprise production environments.
- Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous or semi-autonomous AI agents with tool invocation, memory, workflow orchestration, and multi-step reasoning capabilities in complex enterprise use cases.
- You need a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline. This degree should accompany at least 5 years of relevant professional experience that you have gained. Alternatively, you can have a Master's degree in a similar field, which requires 3 years of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Have, with the ability to explain complex AI concepts to non-technical team members. Additionally, I have excellent collaboration skills, allowing me to work with product managers, designers, clinicians, and compliance specialists. Furthermore, I have expertise working within regulated or high-accountability environments, such as healthcare, finance, or government.
- Experience in healthcare industries
Additional Information
This is a Hybrid office position where employees primarily operate from the company office with occasional work from home to support focus work and work/life balance needs. D esignated Tech Market locations for this role: New York City; Louisville, KY; Dallas, TX.
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria
Benefits & conditions
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$141,100 - $194,000 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, "Humana") offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides 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 and many other opportunities.