Principal AI Engineer – Agentic AI

Principal AI Engineer

About the Role

Join Humana as Principal AI Engineer and lead the hands-on creation of secure, scalable, and innovative agentic AI applications that transform how our teams deliver solutions. Drive the development of production-ready autonomous AI applications in collaboration with engineering and data science, making a direct impact on Humana's technology evolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise design for agentic AI applications, ensuring secure, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.
• Build and maintain developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, and automation for efficient agentic AI application development and deployment.
• Develop and manage cloud-based AI services (GCP preferred), including Kubernetes, security controls, and observability systems.
• Develop robust backend APIs and services in Python to support agentic AI platform functionality and data management.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, set engineering standards, mentor peers, and drive innovation aligned with Humana's AI technology roadmap.

Required Qualifications

• 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).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with generative AI tooling (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, PydanticAI, or similar).
• Strong understanding of deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow).
• Experience with distributed systems (Akka, Flink, or similar).
• Prior work building platforms rather than one-off applications.
• A track record of pragmatic decision-making, balancing innovation with maintainability and long-term value.

Work Model & Location

This position follows a hybrid work model, requiring three (3) days per week in-office. Must be performed at one of our designated Tech Market locations: Louisville, KY; New York City, NY; Dallas, TX; Boston, MA; or Washington, D.C.

Internet Requirements: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.

California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota: Employees who live and work from home in these states will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.

Workspace: Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information. Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Compensation & Benefits

Pay Range: $172,200 - $236,900 per year

The compensation range 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.

Bonus Eligibility: This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Benefits: Humana offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being, including 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.

About Humana

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

Equal Opportunity

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.