
Principal Applied AI Engineer
Humana
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Louisville • Florida • Kentucky • United States
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Salary
💰 $172,200 - $236,900 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design and build of advanced generative AI systems, spanning LLM-powered applications, multi-agent workflows, RAG, and domain-specific reasoning engines
- Architect and own robust APIs and platform capabilities that bring AI to real business workflows at enterprise scale
- Drive the engineering of high-quality data, feature, and evaluation pipelines that support reliable and continuously improving AI behavior
- Partner with data scientists, platform engineers, and product leaders to transform conceptual ideas into resilient, testable, observable production systems
- Set engineering standards and elevate team culture, emphasizing clarity, craftsmanship, iteration, and objective measures of excellence
- Mentor other engineers and guide teams through complex technical decision-making
- Serve as a thought leader on the practical application of generative AI technologies, emerging patterns, and their fit within our ecosystem
- Champion observability, measurement, and operational excellence, ensuring deployed systems are trustworthy, maintainable, and high-performing
- Stay at the forefront of AI/ML advancements and help the organization understand the right time, and the right way, to adopt new technologies
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 and many other opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonLLM integrationRAGembeddingsgenerative AImachine learning engineeringmodel deploymentFastAPIFlaskDocker
Soft Skills
mentoringtechnical decision-makingteam cultureclaritycraftsmanshipiterationoperational excellencethought leadershipcommunicationproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor’s in Computer ScienceMaster’s in Computer Science