Senior AI Engineer: Production HealthTech Systems

Humana; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior AI Applied Engineer to design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems used at scale in a regulated healthcare environment. You will own solutions end-to-end, from user experience and APIs to model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, and production operations.

You will work on LLM-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and human-in-the-loop review, ensuring privacy, security, and auditability while collaborating with product,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience building and operating production software systems.
• Experience debugging, monitoring, and supporting production applications used by real customers.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production applications beyond simple chat interfaces, including structured outputs, tool calling, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), agents, or multi-step workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack AI-powered applications, including frontend experiences, APIs, backend services, and data pipelines.
• Build and optimize LLM-based workflows for information extraction, classification, retrieval, summarization, and agentic processes.
• Develop robust prompt strategies, structured output frameworks, tool-calling capabilities, and fallback mechanisms to improve reliability.
• Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using embeddings, vector databases, and semantic search technologies.
• Build evaluation frameworks, including benchmark datasets, regression testing, quality metrics, and human review workflows.
• Develop human-in-the-loop processes that enable clinicians and domain experts to validate AI outputs and provide feedback for continuous improvement.

Skills

Backend development

LLM integration

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Production monitoring

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

OpenAI

Azure AI

AWS Bedrock

Kubernetes

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior AI Applied Engineer to design, build, deploy, and operate production AI systems used at scale in a regulated healthcare environment. You will own solutions end-to-end, from user experience and APIs to model orchestration, evaluation frameworks, infrastructure, and production operations.

You will work on LLM-based workflows, retrieval-augmented generation, and human-in-the-loop review, ensuring privacy, security, and auditability while collaborating with product,