Principal AI Engineer

Humana

AI Engineering Principal serving as a senior technical leader in Humana’s Simplification CoE. Driving architecture, strategy, and delivery of enterprise-scale simplification capabilities across the organization.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeNew York City • District of Columbia, Illinois, Kentucky, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $206,600 - $284,300 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Advise and make recommendations to senior IT and business leaders on areas for service simplification.
Define and maintain system architecture and technology stack.
Collaborate with product managers, designers, business intelligence engineers, and other stakeholders to make technical decisions, define technical requirements, and create development roadmaps in service of business goals.
Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote continuous improvement in code quality and development processes.
Mentor engineers and enforce best practices.
Contribute hands-on across the stack.
Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD and cloud deployments.
Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years software engineering experience; 3+ years in architecture/lead roles
Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills in a cross-functional product team
2 or more years of experience leading people or projects
Demonstrated ability to work across product, engineering, operations, and delivery teams to align needs, opportunities, and solutions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health benefits effective day 1
Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time and jury duty pay
Recognition pay
401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match
Tuition assistance
Scholarships for eligible dependents
Parental and caregiver leave
Employee charity matching program
Network Resource Groups (NRGs)
Career development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

system architecturetechnology stackcode reviewsdevelopment roadmapsCI/CDcloud deploymentssoftware engineeringbest practicescontinuous improvementtechnical requirements

Soft Skills

leadershipcommunicationcollaborationmentoringconstructive feedbackcross-functional teamworkproblem-solvingadvisingrecommendation makingstakeholder engagement