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Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Remote only
What You'll Do
Build AI That Actually Gets Used
Design and deliver AI-powered capabilities that solve meaningful business problems.
Develop solutions using large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), autonomous agents, semantic search, and other modern AI techniques.
Own technical architecture from prototype through production deployment.
Create reusable platform capabilities that accelerate future AI development.
Lead Through Engineering Excellence
Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor across multiple teams.
Mentor engineers and help raise the overall technical bar.
Drive engineering best practices around architecture, testing, deployment, observability, and operational excellence.
Conduct design and code reviews while helping teams navigate complex technical decisions.
Explore What's Next
Evaluate emerging AI technologies, frameworks, and approaches.
Rapidly prototype new ideas and determine where they can create real value.
Bring a practical mindset to innovation—separating hype from opportunity.
Help define the organization's long-term AI engineering strategy.
Build for Scale
Design cloud-native systems capable of supporting enterprise-scale usage.
Optimize performance, reliability, scalability, and operational costs.
Develop integration patterns connecting AI capabilities to enterprise systems, knowledge sources, APIs, and workflows.
Help establish standards and foundations that enable many teams to build on top of AI safely and efficiently.
Champion Responsible AI
Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, compliance, and governance requirements.
Define evaluation strategies that measure quality, accuracy, safety, and business impact.
Help establish best practices for AI observability, monitoring, and risk management.
What We're Looking For
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience.
3+ years building or leading production AI/ML solutions.
Strong experience with large language models, AI orchestration frameworks, vector search, RAG, and prompt engineering.
Proficiency in Python and at least one additional modern programming language, preferrably C#/.Net
Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, system design, APIs, CI/CD, testing, and DevSecOps.
Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence across teams.
Nice to Have
Experience building agentic or autonomous AI systems.
Experience developing reusable AI platforms and shared services.
Familiarity with model evaluation frameworks, fine-tuning, or advanced ML techniques.
Experience building developer productivity or AI-assisted engineering solutions.
Experience operating in regulated or highly governed environments.
Open-source contributions, patents, technical publications, or conference speaking experience.
You'll Be Successful Here If You...
Get excited about building things that don't exist yet.
Can move comfortably between architecture diagrams, source code, and executive conversations.
Know when to innovate and when to simplify.
Enjoy mentoring other engineers and helping teams succeed.
Care as much about outcomes as you do technology.
Have a healthy skepticism of buzzwords and a passion for delivering real value.
Why This Role?
You'll have the opportunity to influence the direction of AI across an entire enterprise, work with cutting-edge technologies, solve genuinely difficult technical challenges, and help define how AI capabilities are built, governed, and scaled for years to come.
In short: you'll help build the platforms and capabilities that other teams will depend on to bring AI into their products, workflows, and everyday work.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
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.
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, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
