Lead Agentic AI Engineer - Healthcare Platform (Remote)

Humana Inc; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead AI Engineer to own and deliver agentic AI capabilities for the NBA platform, writing production AI code while guiding a small team of engineers and contractors.

You will design multi-step AI workflows, integrate LLMs, and ship user-facing AI features with a focus on reliability and compliance in healthcare. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration with frontend/product teams to deliver AI-driven insights within operator surfaces while

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software or ML engineering experience with at least 1-2 years focused on LLM integration, agentic AI, or AI product engineering
• Hands-on experience building production agentic systems - multi-step pipelines, tool orchestration, structured output handling, and multi-turn conversation management
• Experience with RAG patterns and vector search - you have built retrieval-augmented systems in production, not just read about them
• Strong Python engineering skills; comfortable building and shipping production-grade AI systems, not just prototypes
• Experience integrating LLM APIs (Anthropic, OpenAI, or equivalents) into real applications
• Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources
• Strong judgment on when AI is the right tool and when it is not - especially in a regulated, member-facing context
• Clear communicator - you can explain an agentic architecture to an engineer and a product owner without losing either of them
• Deep fluency with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar) - this is table stakes for this role

Responsibilities

• Agentic AI delivery - design, build, and own AI agent workflows across NBA platform UI and tools
• Hands-on development: write and ship production code with your team
• AI workflow design - architect multi-step pipelines integrating data, decisions, and activation channels
• LLM integration - own integration of large language models into platform workflows, including prompt engineering
• User-facing AI experiences - partner with frontend/product teams to bring AI-powered analysis into operator surfaces
• Evaluation and reliability - build frameworks to measure AI output quality and ensure safety in a regulated healthcare environment
• Contractor management - manage AI engineering contractors within your pod and ensure quality
• AI productivity tooling - promote best practices for AI-assisted development across the org

Skills

LLM integration

Hands-on coding

Python

RAG patterns

Vector search

Team leadership

Contractor management

AI tooling

Tools

Anthropic API

OpenAI API

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead AI Engineer to own and deliver agentic AI capabilities for the NBA platform, writing production AI code while guiding a small team of engineers and contractors.

You will design multi-step AI workflows, integrate LLMs, and ship user-facing AI features with a focus on reliability and compliance in healthcare. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, architectural design, and collaboration with frontend/product teams to deliver AI-driven insights within operator surfaces while