Lead AI Engineer: Scalable GenAI Platforms

Humana Inc; Louisville, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. in Louisville, KY seeks a Lead AI Software Engineer to guide the design, development, and scaling of production-grade AI solutions, using cloud-native architectures and LLMs.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive strategic AI initiatives, and ensure reliability, security, and governance in enterprise applications while collaborating with product and architecture teams. This is a hybrid role with onsite collaboration several days a week and opportunities to shape the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Proven experience building and delivering large-scale, production-grade software platforms.
• Strong backend development expertise with Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives from architecture through deployment.

Responsibilities

• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning efforts.
• Build end-to-end AI solutions, including APIs, microservices, data pipelines, and evaluation frameworks.
• Mentor and develop software engineers and data scientists.
• Drive governance, monitoring, and operational excellence for AI in production.
• Collaborate with product, data science, and infrastructure teams to scale AI platforms.

Skills

Technical leadership

Backend development

Distributed systems

Agile experience

Python/Java

Job description

Humana Inc. in Louisville, KY seeks a Lead AI Software Engineer to guide the design, development, and scaling of production-grade AI solutions, using cloud-native architectures and LLMs.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive strategic AI initiatives, and ensure reliability, security, and governance in enterprise applications while collaborating with product and architecture teams. This is a hybrid role with onsite collaboration several days a week and opportunities to shape the