Senior AI Agent Architect for Autonomous Systems

Humana Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. in the Enterprise AI organization seeks a senior AI researcher/ML engineer to advance autonomous agents and scalable ML systems in healthcare.

You will contribute to goal setting, planning, and safe agent design across insurance and CenterWell segments. You will prototype interfaces with APIs, databases, and external tools, building evaluation frameworks for alignment and reliability in long-horizon tasks.

Qualifications

• Master's Degree and 4+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position preferably with a focus on developing production-ready AI solutions
• 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML systems

Responsibilities

• Architect goal setting and goal decomposition mechanisms for autonomous agents operating in uncertain or open-ended environments
• Design and implement dynamic planning systems (e.g., hierarchical planning, curriculum learning, scratchpad/self-refinement 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, consistency, progress against long-horizon objectives
• Prototype agents that interface with APIs, MCP servers, search engines, databases, or real-world actuators to pursue goals safely and efficiency
• Explore mechanisms to detect and mitigate goal misalignment, looping behavior, or undesirable emergent strategies
• Work across teams to integrate goal alignment with safety, alignment, and operational reliability mechanisms

Skills

SQL

Python

Data mining

PyTorch

JAX

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Transformers

ETL

High perf ML

Symbolic planning

Causal reasoning

Model-based RL

Education

Master's degree in CS / ML / related field

4+ years ML/Research experience

Tools

APIs

MCP servers

Search engines

Databases

Job description

Humana Inc. in the Enterprise AI organization seeks a senior AI researcher/ML engineer to advance autonomous agents and scalable ML systems in healthcare.

You will contribute to goal setting, planning, and safe agent design across insurance and CenterWell segments. You will prototype interfaces with APIs, databases, and external tools, building evaluation frameworks for alignment and reliability in long-horizon tasks.