Associate Director, AI Engineering - Remote Eligible

Associate Director Of Ai Engineering

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. We're looking for an experienced and passionate Associate Director of AI Engineering to lead a team focused on building the agentic AI capabilities and solutions. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader who understands the complexities of building production-ready machine learning systems and is excited about accelerating the adoption and impact of agentic AI across diverse business domains.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a team of ML engineers building foundational services, frameworks, and tools for agentic AI applications—enabling consistent, scalable, and cost-effective development across the organization.
• Collaborate with application teams to understand their needs and design reusable components and capabilities (e.g., LLM orchestration frameworks, experiment tracking, evaluation pipelines, model proxy/gateways, observability, etc.).
• Contribute to drive the team roadmap based on company-wide agentic AI initiatives, balancing near-term needs with long-term platform investments.
• Ensure strong engineering practices including CI/CD, automated testing, and observability for all services owned by the team.
• Mentor and coach ML engineers, helping them grow their technical skills and career paths while fostering a culture of experimentation, humility, and excellence.
• Drive cross-functional alignment with Enterprise Architecture, security, data engineering, DevOps, and application leads to ensure the generative AI platform is well-integrated, simple to use, and aligned with broader enterprise goals.
• 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.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a Physical Science, or Engineering
• 6 or more years of technical experience
• 2 or more years of management experience
• Demonstrated experience in the selection of components of the technical stack, robust and scalable design patterns and building end to end software systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• An operational mind, with demonstrated past examples of excellence in process innovation and execution
• Experience leading the development of AI applications in large scale environments
• Experience leading the build out of development platforms targeted at AI developers
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences

Additional Information:

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees' ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership. Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense. Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information. Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Pay Range: $156,600 - $215,400 per year

This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 11-29-2025

About Us: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is committed to putting health first – for our teammates, our customers and our company. Through our Humana insurance services and 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, Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large.

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.