Remote Lead AI Scientist: Autonomous Agents & Planning

Humana Inc; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

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Benefits package

Job summary

Humana's Enterprise AI organization seeks an expert in agent design, planning, and control to develop autonomous agents that set, adapt, and execute goals in dynamic environments. You will build robust evaluation frameworks and interfaces with APIs, MCP servers, and data stores to pursue goals safely and efficiently.

Qualifications include a Master's degree with 4+ years of ML/AI research or production experience, 2+ years leading AI/ML systems, and comfort with large-scale ML tooling and

Qualifications

• Master's Degree and 4+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position.
• 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML systems.
• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field preferred.
• Demonstrated experience shipping autonomous or semi-autonomous agents in production or simulation.
• Experience with LLM-based agents with scratchpad/self-reflection or hierarchical task decomposition.
• Understanding of autonomy risk mitigation strategies, including off-switch protocols or bounded rationality.

Responsibilities

• Architect goal setting and decomposition mechanisms for autonomous agents in uncertain or open-ended environments.
• Design and implement dynamic planning systems (hierarchical planning, curriculum learning, scratchpad loops).
• Collaborate on memory, tool-use, and feedback-loop designs enabling multi-step self-directed agent behavior.
• Develop evaluation frameworks for alignment with human intent and long-horizon objectives.
• Prototype agents that interface with APIs, MCP servers, search engines, databases, or real-world actuators.
• Explore mechanisms to detect and mitigate goal misalignment or undesirable emergent strategies.
• Work across teams to integrate goal alignment with safety, alignment, and operational reliability mechanisms.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

ML frameworks

Education

Master's degree with 4+ years experience

PhD in CS/Data Science (preferred)

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Job description

Humana's Enterprise AI organization seeks an expert in agent design, planning, and control to develop autonomous agents that set, adapt, and execute goals in dynamic environments. You will build robust evaluation frameworks and interfaces with APIs, MCP servers, and data stores to pursue goals safely and efficiently.

Qualifications include a Master's degree with 4+ years of ML/AI research or production experience, 2+ years leading AI/ML systems, and comfort with large-scale ML tooling and