Senior Applied AI Software Engineer ( AI)

Humana; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 141,100 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana’s Enterprise AI organization is seeking top talent to build production-grade AI agents and GenAI applications for healthcare, focusing on agent orchestration, RAG, and secure tool use. You will collaborate with product, clinical, data, and compliance teams to deliver measurable value in HIPAA-compliant environments.

Ideal candidates have strong Python backend and frontend experience, with hands-on AI/ML integration, tooling, and multi-agent workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or related quantitative discipline with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience, or a Master’s degree in a similar field with at least 3 years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development.
• At least 3 years of experience building user-facing applications using modern frontend frameworks (React, Vue, Solid, Angular).
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems and proficiency in prompt engineering, model selection, and context management.

Responsibilities

• Develop production-grade AI agents and GenAI applications with emphasis on agent orchestration, RAG, tool use, workflow automation, and personalized assistance.
• Partner with product, clinical, data, and compliance teams to deliver measurable value in HIPAA-compliant environments.
• Improve quality through prompt and context optimization, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop validation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, designers, clinicians, and compliance specialists.

Skills

Python full-stack

Frontend frameworks

AI/ML integration

RAG pipelines

AI tooling

Observability

Agent orchestration

Education

Bachelor's in CS/Math/Stats

Master's in related field

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Replit

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Job description

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The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, driving AI development across our Insurance and CenterWell business segments. By collaborating with world‑experts, we deliver the latest AI technologies for improving care quality and experience of millions of consumers. Our goal is to create safe AI solutions to improve and enhance healthcare experience and outcomes for our customers.

We are looking for top talent to join us in shaping the future of healthcare through AI excellence. Join our expanding team of dedicated product managers, data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders as we work together to build impactful and beneficial AI systems.

Develop production‑grade AI agents and GenAI applications for healthcare, with emphasis on agent orchestration, RAG, tool use, workflow automation, and personalized assistance. Develop secure, scalable AI services using frameworks such as LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Semantic Kernel, plus Python APIs and modern web integration. Improve quality through prompt and context optimization, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, monitoring, and human‑in‑the‑loop validation. Partner with product, clinical, data, and compliance teams to deliver measurable value in HIPAA‑compliant environments.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience with advanced Python development experience delivering scalable, production‑grade full‑stack applications.
• At least 3 years of experience building user‑facing applications using modern frontend frameworks such as React, Vue, Solid, or Angular, including responsive, accessible, and API‑integrated user interfaces.
• Hands‑on experience integrating AI/ML capabilities into production systems using contemporary AI SDKs, orchestration frameworks, and agentic architectures. Proficient in prompt engineering, model selection, context management, and generative AI deployment best practices.
• Direct experience developing AI‑powered solutions such as retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and embeddings‑based retrieval systems, including AI agents, multi‑agent workflows, and advanced conversational interfaces. Also implemented AI‑specific testing, evaluation, safety, and quality assurance methodologies.
• Proficiency with AI‑assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Replit, or comparable AI‑enabled coding platforms, applying these tools for code acceleration, prototyping, debugging, and quality improvement.
• Experience with AI system evaluation, observability, reliability, fallback strategies, safety guardrails, latency optimization, and rate‑limit management within enterprise production environments.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining autonomous or semi‑autonomous AI agents with tool invocation, memory, workflow orchestration, and multi‑step reasoning capabilities in complex enterprise use cases.
• Authorized educational background: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience, or a Master’s degree in a similar field with at least 3 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to explain complex AI concepts to non‑technical team members, with excellent collaboration skills to work with product managers, designers, clinicians, and compliance specialists. Experience working within regulated or high‑accountability environments such as healthcare, finance, or government.
• Experience in healthcare industries.

Additional Information

This is a hybrid office position where employees primarily operate from the company office with occasional work from home to support focus work and work‑life balance needs. Designated Tech Market locations for this role: New York City; Louisville, KY; Dallas, TX.

Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi‑weekly payment for their internet expense. Humana will provide telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for the position.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

$141,100 - $194,000 per year. This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

Description Of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries offer competitive benefits that support whole‑person well‑being, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k) retirement savings plan, paid time off (including holidays, volunteer time, paid parental and caregiver leave), short‑term and long‑term disability, life insurance, and more.

About Us

Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. Humana takes affirmative action in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and advance individuals with disability or protected veteran status. All employment decisions are based on valid job requirements.