Principal AI Quality Engineer, Enterprise Platforms

Humana Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer, Intelligent Quality Solutions, to lead AI-powered software initiatives across the Enterprise Quality Engineering ecosystem.

You will build production-ready AI services, reusable frameworks, and autonomous agents that empower testing, quality, and engineering productivity at scale. The role requires deep software engineering expertise, hands-on AI production experience, and a passion for experimentation, learning, and collaboration with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience designing and building enterprise software applications, services, or platforms.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting AI-powered software applications in production.
• Experience building applications that use large language models, generative AI, agentic AI, ML, or modern AI orchestration frameworks.
• Strong software engineering expertise across cloud-native architectures, APIs, distributed systems, modern design patterns, and secure software development.
• Experience building scalable enterprise platforms or reusable enterprise capabilities.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into enterprise software products, platforms, or engineering workflows.
• Proven success in innovative, experimentation-driven environments with rapid prototyping and continuous learning.
• Ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from concept through production implementation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, observability, governance, and software lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-powered software solutions for Enterprise Quality Engineering.
• Develop intelligent applications, AI services, APIs, and reusable frameworks.
• Create and enhance AI agents that improve software testing, quality, and productivity.
• Build scalable, secure, production-ready enterprise software.
• Integrate AI capabilities into software development and quality engineering processes.
• Evaluate latest AI technologies and prototype solutions.
• Provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and mentorship across projects.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, product, security, and data teams to create enterprise solutions.
• Establish best practices for AI development, governance, security, and observability.
• Help shape long-term AI and quality engineering strategy.

Skills

AI/ML integration

Cloud-native architectures

DevOps CI/CD

Technical leadership

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Azure OpenAI

OpenAI

Anthropic Claude

Google Gemini

Vector databases

Semantic search

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer, Intelligent Quality Solutions, to lead AI-powered software initiatives across the Enterprise Quality Engineering ecosystem.

You will build production-ready AI services, reusable frameworks, and autonomous agents that empower testing, quality, and engineering productivity at scale. The role requires deep software engineering expertise, hands-on AI production experience, and a passion for experimentation, learning, and collaboration with