The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, advancing AI innovation enterprise-wide across Humana’s Insurance, CenterWell, Growth, and Corporate business segments. By collaborating with world-leading experts, we are at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge AI technologies to improve care quality and experience of millions of consumers. We are actively seeking top talent to develop robust and reusable AI modules and pipelines, ensuring adherence to best practices in accountable AI. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare through AI excellence.
We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist who will contribute to Generative AI initiatives at Humana, leveraging state-of-the-art LLMs to build applications. Our goal is to create safe AI solutions that will revolutionize and improve healthcare experience and outcomes for our customers. Join our rapidly expanding team of dedicated data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders as we work together to build impactful and beneficial AI systems.
Key Responsibilities
AI Innovation & Responsible Generative AI Design and develop AI solutions using Python, AI/ML and generative models like LLMs. Ensure responsible development aligned with Humana’s ethical standards, focusing on transparency, safety, and real-world impact.
Agentic AI System Design Build autonomous AI agents using frameworks (i.e. LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) to support reasoning and decision-making in healthcare.
Enterprise Integration & Business Collaboration Embed AI into Humana’s systems and workflows. Partner with business teams to understand challenges, co-create solutions, and communicate AI capabilities clearly—especially around generative AI. Design for scalability, reliability, and compliance.
MLOps & DevOps Collaboration Work with engineering and product teams to 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, date engineers, software engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high impact AI use case solutions.
Develop and maintain advanced AI/machine learning models and algorithms.
Design and implement robust monitoring capabilities to maintain optimal performance and reliability.
Experience in creating reports, projections, models, and presentations to business stakeholders.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required 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
Preferred Qualifications
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Prior consulting experience
Additional Information
Work Style: This position will have a hybrid work style, with 3 days per week in office and 2 days per week remote/home.
Office Location Options:
Louisville, KY
Boston, MA
New York, NY
Dallas, TX
Tampa, FL
Washington, DC (Arlington, VA)
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.About Us
About Humana: 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 – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
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. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree and 5 years of applicable experience OR Master's degree and 3 or more years of experience (preferably focused on production-ready AI solutions).
- Experience with Agentic AI System Design (building autonomous AI agents).
- Experience collaborating with MLOps and DevOps teams.
- Proficiency in Python, SQL, and PySpark.
- Experience with machine learning frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
- Experience with language modeling using transformers and working with LLMs.
- Experience with high-performance, large-scale ML systems.
- Experience with large-scale ETL processes.
- Experience with data analysis and data mining tools.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or related field.
- Prior consulting experience.
Humana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Humana and has not been reviewed or approved by Humana.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance are offered alongside on-site/virtual wellness resources and weekly paid well-being time, indicating a whole-person focus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid PTO and holidays, volunteer time, and formal leave options such as parental and caregiver time provide broad time-away support. Adoption assistance and lactation rooms extend coverage for key life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match anchors long-term savings. Employer-matched emergency savings programs complement retirement planning.
Humana Insights
What We Do
At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.
