Lead Applied Ai Engineer (agentic Ai)

Humana

New York City, NY, USA
$170,800 - $234,800 py; bonus incentive plan; comp...
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Architect ai systems
Rag pipelines
Agent orchestration
** Humana is seeking a Lead Applied AI Engineer to drive AI innovation in healthcare, focusing on building advanced AI systems that enhance care quality and operational efficiency. The role requires extensive experience in AI/ML, strong technical skills, and a commitment to responsible AI practices in compliance with healthcare regulations. **

Job Summary

  • Architect comprehensive end-to-end AI systems including sophisticated RAG pipelines with multi-stage retrieval and re-ranking, complex agent orchestration systems that coordinate multiple specialized agents, and multi-model integrations that leverage different AI models for their respective strengths, designing these systems with appropriate modularity, extensibility, and operational characteristics to support evolving business requirements.
  • Lead deployment of AI systems into production environments with strong observability including detailed logging and tracing, comprehensive reliability including graceful degradation and circuit breakers, thorough monitoring including real-time dashboards and automated alerting, and robust incident response procedures, ensuring AI services meet stringent service level objectives required for healthcare applications.
  • 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.

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** Humana is seeking a Lead Applied AI Engineer to drive AI innovation in healthcare, focusing on building advanced AI systems that enhance care quality and operational efficiency. The role requires extensive experience in AI/ML, strong technical skills, and a commitment to responsible AI practices in compliance with healthcare regulations. **

Salary

$170,800 - $234,800 per year; Bonus incentive plan; Competitive benefits

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • architect AI systems
  • RAG pipelines
  • agent orchestration
  • multi-model integrations
  • prompt engineering standards
  • evaluation metrics
  • performance optimization
  • production deployment
  • observability and reliability
  • scalable data ingestion
  • retrieval architectures
  • data preprocessing pipelines
  • quantitative evaluation
  • continuous improvement
  • infrastructure readiness
  • AI platform capabilities
  • responsible AI development
  • healthcare compliance

Nice-to-have

  • mentoring and coaching
  • elevate AI engineering best practices
  • foster responsible AI culture
  • influence technical direction
  • cross-functional collaboration

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years software engineering experience
  • Applied AI/ML focus
  • Distributed systems at scale
  • Full-stack architectures
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience
  • Expertise in production-grade generative AI systems
  • RAG architectures
  • Agent orchestration frameworks
  • Multi-model systems
  • Conversational AI systems
  • Lead complex AI initiatives
  • Translate business objectives to AI designs
  • Strong technical proficiency in Python
  • Experience with modern web application frameworks
  • Deep knowledge of AI-specific technologies
  • Experience establishing organization-wide best practices for prompt engineering
  • Comprehensive evaluation frameworks
  • Model observability
  • Performance benchmarking
  • Responsible AI principles
  • AI governance considerations
  • Experience addressing deployment challenges in regulated environments

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