Principal AI Engineer

Humana is looking for an AI Engineering Principal to serve as a senior technical leader within the Simplification Center of Excellence (CoE), driving the architecture, technology strategy, and delivery of enterprise-scale simplification capabilities. Program Summary The Simplification Center of Excellence (CoE) is building a new enterprise capability that helps teams create simpler, more effective, and more human‑centered solutions for associates, members, patients, and providers. The team develops shared tools, methods, and guidance that support teams from discovery through delivery, bringing together process insight, research, ideation, rapid prototyping, and impact assessment to improve both speed and quality of outcomes. Position Overview The AI Engineering Principal will own the technical architecture, technology strategy, and implementation of the CoE's core simplification and acceleration capabilities. In this role, you will act as a trusted technical advisor to senior executives, shaping enterprise‑wide service simplification initiatives and ensuring that the CoE delivers reliable, secure, and extensible systems that enable discovery, workflow understanding, rapid prototyping, and solution validation. Key Responsibilities Advise and make recommendations to senior IT and business leaders on areas for service simplification. Define and maintain system architecture and technology stack. Collaborate with product managers, designers, business intelligence engineers, and other stakeholders to make technical decisions, define technical requirements, and create development roadmaps in service of business goals. Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and promote continuous improvement in code quality and development processes. Mentor engineers and enforce best practices. Contribute hands‑on across the stack. Collaborate with DevOps for CI/CD and cloud deployments. Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members. Core Skills & Attributes Full-stack expertise (React, TypeScript, .NET/Java, Python). Cloud architecture (Azure/GCP), Kubernetes, Postgres. AI architecture (LLMs, Vector DBs, embeddings, prompting, agents). Test‑driven development across unit, functional, integration, and UI testing. Systems thinking skillset. Passionate about continuously improving and simplifying customer experiences through human‑centered design. Qualifications & Experience 10+ years software engineering experience; 3+ years in architecture/lead roles. Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills in a cross‑functional product team. 2+ years of experience leading people or projects. Demonstrated ability to work across product, engineering, operations, and delivery teams to align needs, opportunities, and solutions. Experience supporting or accelerating product development processes. Preferred Qualifications Enterprise security/compliance knowledge. DevOps knowledge such as containerization and infrastructure as code. Data engineering knowledge/experience such as ETL and data pipelines. Human‑centered design. Interest or desire for pair‑programming. Understanding of training and deploying machine learning models. Locations Washington, D.C. metropolitan area Dallas, TX metropolitan area Louisville, KY metropolitan area New York City, NY metropolitan area Chicago, IL metropolitan area Benefits Health benefits effective day 1 Paid time off, holidays, volunteer time, and jury duty pay Recognition pay 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match Tuition assistance Scholarships for eligible dependents Parental and caregiver leave Employee charity matching program Network Resource Groups (NRGs) Career development opportunities 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 complies with all applicable federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. #J-18808-Ljbffr