Senior AI Platform Architect – Healthcare Systems

Humana; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Principal AI Applied Engineer to define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for AI-enabled healthcare products. You will shape reference architectures, evaluate models and vendors, and mentor teams while staying hands-on in prototyping and implementation.

You will influence enterprise decisions on AI platforms, governance, and investments, ensuring reliability, privacy, and security across large-scale systems used to improve member outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including extensive experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Proven track record of designing, delivering, and operating production AI-enabled platforms or products at enterprise scale.
• Deep expertise in large language model technologies, AI platform design, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems, orchestration frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and AI operations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term technical strategy, reference architecture, and technology roadmap for AI-enabled products and platforms.
• Establish architectural patterns and best practices for retrieval systems, LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, human-in-the-loop processes, evaluation frameworks, and AI governance.
• Lead organization-wide technical decision-making regarding model strategy, vendor selection, platform investments, build-versus-buy decisions, and shared infrastructure capabilities.
• Design and champion scalable architectures that balance reliability, performance, security, compliance, maintainability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish engineering standards for evaluation, observability, model lifecycle management, responsible AI practices, and operational excellence.

Skills

Python

TypeScript/JavaScript

Architectural design

AI platforms

Cloud-native

Model governance

Prototyping

Leadership influence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Gemini on Vertex AI

OCR and Document AI technologies

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Humana is seeking a Principal AI Applied Engineer to define the long-term technical strategy and architecture for AI-enabled healthcare products. You will shape reference architectures, evaluate models and vendors, and mentor teams while staying hands-on in prototyping and implementation.

You will influence enterprise decisions on AI platforms, governance, and investments, ensuring reliability, privacy, and security across large-scale systems used to improve member outcomes.