Principal AI Quality Engineer — Remote

Humana Inc; United States; Remote; USD 157,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer in Intelligent Quality Solutions to lead building AI-enabled, enterprise-grade software for quality engineering.

You will design, implement, and operate AI-powered services, reusable frameworks, and intelligent agents at scale, collaborating with security, data, product, and architecture teams. The role emphasizes production-grade deliverables, innovation, and continuous learning in a remote-friendly, high-impact environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related field.
• 12 or more 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 environments.
• Demonstrated experience building applications that use large language models, generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, 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 working in innovative, experimentation-driven engineering environments where rapid prototyping, continuous learning, and technical curiosity are core to team success.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from concept through production implementation.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, observability, engineering governance, and software lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and communicate effectively with both 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 engineering productivity.
• Build scalable, secure, and 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 engineering 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 the long-term AI and quality engineering strategy.
• Use your skills to make an impact.

Skills

Technical leadership

AI in production

Cloud architectures

APIs & microservices

CI/CD & DevOps

Secure software

Communication skills

Mentorship

ML frameworks

Experimentation culture

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Master's degree in CS/AI

Tools

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Principal Software Engineer in Intelligent Quality Solutions to lead building AI-enabled, enterprise-grade software for quality engineering.

You will design, implement, and operate AI-powered services, reusable frameworks, and intelligent agents at scale, collaborating with security, data, product, and architecture teams. The role emphasizes production-grade deliverables, innovation, and continuous learning in a remote-friendly, high-impact environment.