Associate Director, Applied AI Engineering
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The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force driving AI innovation across our Insurance and CenterWell business segments. By partnering with world-class experts, we deliver cutting-edge AI capabilities that improve healthcare experiences and outcomes for millions of consumers.We are seeking an Associate Director, Applied AI Engineering to lead and grow a high-performing team of AI engineers focused on building safe, scalable, and impactful AI solutions for the enterprise. This is a people-first leadership role for a technically strong engineering leader who is passionate about developing talent, establishing engineering excellence, and delivering AI-powered products at scale.
You will lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team responsible for production AI applications, agentic systems, conversational AI experiences, and intelligent automation capabilities while fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusion, and continuous learning.
Supporting Humana’s enterprise AI book of work, this leader partners closely with data science, machine learning, product, business, architecture, security, and technology teams to ensure high-quality data is available for AI use cases across the organization. The Associate Director applies cloud-native engineering practices, modern software development patterns, big data technologies, and AI/ML data enablement strategies to help Humana better serve its members.
This role requires a strong understanding of how organizational capabilities interrelate across departments and is responsible for identifying and resolving complex technical and operational challenges. The Associate Director may lead multiple managers or highly specialized professional associates and provides strategic and technical leadership for enterprise AI data engineering delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Lead and grow a team of AI engineers building foundational services, frameworks, and tools for agentic AI applications—enabling consistent, scalable, and cost-effective development across the organization
Industry Expertise: Stay current with industry trends in generative AI (e.g., foundation models, evaluation techniques, retrieval-augmented generation, fine-tuning approaches, and open-source tooling) and help the team apply them effectively
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Drive cross-functional alignment with enterprise architecture, security, data engineering, DevOps, and application leads to ensure the generative AI platform is well-integrated and aligned with broader enterprise goals
Mentorship: Mentor and coach AI engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and career paths while fostering a culture of experimentation, humility, and excellence
Engineering Practices: Ensure strong engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, and incident response for all services owned by the team
Strategic Planning: Define and drive strategic plans, goals, and team performance based on company-wide agentic AI initiatives, balancing near-term needs with long-term platform investments
System Design: Lead collaboration with application teams to understand their needs and design systems which solve complex challenges with reusable components on the agentic AI platform (e.g., LLM orchestration frameworks, experiment tracking, evaluation pipelines, model proxy/gateways, observability, etc.)
Problem Solving: Work with broad guidelines and technical knowledge to solve highly complex problems with long-term impacts
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Required Qualifications
Master's degree or Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field.
7+ years of software engineering, AI engineering, or machine learning engineering experience.
2+ years of people leadership experience managing engineers or technical teams.
Experience building and deploying AI/ML solutions in production environments.
Strong proficiency in Python and modern software development practices.
Experience with AI and machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, LangChain, LangGraph, or comparable technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience leading teams delivering Generative AI, RAG, conversational AI, or agent-based solutions.
Experience working in healthcare, health insurance, or other highly regulated industries.
Familiarity with AI observability, evaluation frameworks, governance, and safety practices.
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the a
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