Senior AI Systems Architect & Lead Engineer

Humana; Nashville (TN); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to design, develop, and scale production-grade AI solutions in a hands-on leadership role. You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable AI platforms using LLMs and cloud-native architectures.

The role emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration with product leaders, and operating within an enterprise-scale environment. Hybrid work with onsite collaboration is expected in multiple hubs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
• Proven experience building and delivering large-scale, production-grade software platforms.
• Strong backend development expertise with Python, Java, or similar languages.
• Experience designing distributed systems and cloud-native applications.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives from architecture through deployment.
• Experience working in agile environments with frequent delivery and iteration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for strategic AI initiatives, driving architecture, design decisions, and engineering excellence.
• Design and build scalable, secure, cloud-native AI platforms and services.
• Architect solutions leveraging generative AI, large language models, intelligent document processing, and data-driven applications.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and technical planning efforts.
• Establish engineering standards, reusable frameworks, and best practices that enable teams to deliver at scale.
• Provide technical guidance across the full software development lifecycle.
• Build end-to-end AI solutions, including APIs, microservices, data pipelines, orchestration layers, and evaluation frameworks.
• Develop production-grade applications integrating AI and machine learning capabilities.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reliable, observable, and cost-efficient.
• Drive technical execution from concept through production deployment in an agile delivery environment.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging AI technologies to accelerate innovation and business value.

Skills

Backend development

Python

Java

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Agile delivery

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Job description

Humana is seeking a Lead AI Software Engineer to design, develop, and scale production-grade AI solutions in a hands-on leadership role. You will mentor engineers and data scientists, drive architectural decisions, and deliver scalable AI platforms using LLMs and cloud-native architectures.

The role emphasizes technical excellence, collaboration with product leaders, and operating within an enterprise-scale environment. Hybrid work with onsite collaboration is expected in multiple hubs.