Senior Data Scientist: Generative AI (Hybrid)

Humana; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Hybrid work style

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive Generative AI initiatives and build safe, scalable AI solutions across Humana’s services. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders to deliver impactful AI use cases and maintain rigorous governance.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, model monitoring, and effective communication of AI capabilities to stakeholders, with a hybrid work schedule and relocation options to multiple sites.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5 years of applicable experience OR Master's Degree and 3 or more years of experience preferably with a focus on developing production-ready AI solutions
• Experience with Agentic AI System Design
• Experience collaborating with MLOps and DevOps teams
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, PySpark, and data analysis/data mining tools
• Experience with machine learning frameworks like Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, or Pytorch
• Experience with high performance, large-scale ML systems
• Experience with language modeling with transformers
• Experience with large-scale ETL

Responsibilities

• AI Innovation & Responsible Generative AI Design and develop AI solutions using Python, AI/ML and generative models like LLMs.
• Agentic AI System Design Build autonomous AI agents to support reasoning and decision-making in healthcare.
• Enterprise Integration & Business Collaboration Embed AI into Humana’s systems and workflows and partner with business teams.
• MLOps & DevOps Collaboration Implement best practices for deploying and maintaining AI models in production.
• Execution of data science initiatives, including design, development, and implementation.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and stakeholders to deliver AI use cases.
• Develop and maintain advanced AI/ML models and algorithms.
• Design and implement robust monitoring to maintain performance and reliability.
• Create reports, projections, models, and presentations for stakeholders

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Scikit-Learn

TensorFlow

Pytorch

Transformers

Agentic AI

ML systems

Education

Bachelor's degree + 5 years experience

Master's degree + 3 years experience

PhD in CS/DS/ML

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to drive Generative AI initiatives and build safe, scalable AI solutions across Humana’s services. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders to deliver impactful AI use cases and maintain rigorous governance.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, model monitoring, and effective communication of AI capabilities to stakeholders, with a hybrid work schedule and relocation options to multiple sites.