Serves as a senior technical authority responsible for guiding Humana’s enterprise platform strategy and engineering execution
Leads the design, development, and operation of foundational agentic AI platforms, tools, and services that empower development teams to build, deploy, and operate agent-driven applications efficiently, securely, and reliably
Influences architectural direction for core infrastructure supporting agentic AI workloads
Drives innovation in developer experience and automation—including agent orchestration and human-AI collaboration
Mentors engineering teams, ensuring that platform solutions are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with Humana’s enterprise agentic AI technology roadmap
Evaluates, selects, and integrates foundational agentic AI technologies
Builds and maintains robust CI/CD and agentic AI pipeline automation for automated testing, deployment, and release management
Develops internal tools, APIs, and services that abstract agentic AI infrastructure complexity

10+ years of total engineering experience
Bachelor’s or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
10+ years of professional software or platform engineering experience
Deep expertise in Python, including building production services and shared libraries used by others
Hands-on experience with modern AI systems, including LLM integration, RAG, embeddings, and applied generative AI patterns
Strong background in machine learning engineering, including model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management
Expert-level understanding of FastAPI, Flask, or similar frameworks, and REST/gRPC service design
Strong proficiency with cloud-native development on AWS, GCP, or Azure
Minimum 5 years of containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes)
Production experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and modern DevOps practices
Demonstrated ability to own large, ambiguous problems and deliver high-value, high-quality solutions

medical, dental and vision benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan
time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave)
short-term and long-term disability
life insurance and many other opportunities

Principal AI Engineer

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