Lead AI Software Engineer: Scale Production AI Platforms

Humana; United States; Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Humana seeks a Lead AI Software Engineer to shape and scale AI-powered products and platforms. This hands-on technical leader designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI solutions, partnering with engineers, data scientists, product leaders, and architects to deliver business value at enterprise scale.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive architecture decisions, and ensure responsible AI practices, with a focus on reliability, security, and governance in a hybrid, enterprise

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.
• Experience working in agile environments with frequent delivery and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for strategic AI initiatives, driving architecture, design decisions, and engineering excellence.
• Design and build scalable, secure, cloud-native AI platforms and services.
• Architect solutions leveraging generative AI, large language models, intelligent document processing, and data-driven applications.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning efforts.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that enable teams to deliver at scale.
• Provide technical guidance across the full software development lifecycle.

Skills

Software engineering leadership

Backend development (Python/Java)

Distributed systems design

Cloud-native architectures

Agile development

AI/ML knowledge

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Humana seeks a Lead AI Software Engineer to shape and scale AI-powered products and platforms. This hands-on technical leader designs, builds, and deploys production-grade AI solutions, partnering with engineers, data scientists, product leaders, and architects to deliver business value at enterprise scale.

You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive architecture decisions, and ensure responsible AI practices, with a focus on reliability, security, and governance in a hybrid, enterprise