Remote Lead AI Engineer for Agentic NBA Platform

Humana Inc; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design and delivery of agentic AI capabilities for the NBA platform.

This hands-on role requires writing production-grade code and leading a small team of engineers and contractors to deliver AI-powered workflows and intelligent analyses in user-facing and internal surfaces. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software/ML engineering with 1-2 years in LLM integration, strong Python skills, and proven leadership.

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 retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns and vector search in production
• Strong Python engineering skills; capable of shipping production-grade AI systems
• 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 in regulated, member-facing contexts
• Clear communicator for engineers and product owners
• Familiarity with AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot)

Responsibilities

• Agentic AI delivery - design, build, and own AI agent workflows across UI and tooling
• Hands-on development - write and ship production code
• AI workflow design - architect multi-step pipelines with data layer integration
• LLM integration - manage prompts, tools, outputs, and context
• User-facing AI experiences - collaborate with frontend/product teams
• Evaluation and reliability - build quality and auditable AI systems
• Contractor management - oversee engineers and contractors
• AI productivity tooling - promote best practices across engineering

Skills

Agentic AI

LLM integration

Python engineering

Production AI systems

Team leadership

RAG patterns

Vector search

API integration

Tools

Claude API

OpenAI API

Claude/Claude Agent SDK

Job description

Humana, Inc. is seeking a Lead AI Engineer to own the design and delivery of agentic AI capabilities for the NBA platform.

This hands-on role requires writing production-grade code and leading a small team of engineers and contractors to deliver AI-powered workflows and intelligent analyses in user-facing and internal surfaces. The ideal candidate has 6+ years in software/ML engineering with 1-2 years in LLM integration, strong Python skills, and proven leadership.