Lead Data Scientist

About the Role

Employment Type: Full time

Become a part of our caring community and help us put health first. The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, driving AI innovation across our Insurance and CenterWell business segments. By collaborating with world-leading experts, we are at the forefront of delivering cutting-edge AI technologies for improving 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 for effective risk management and measurement. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare through AI excellence.

We are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to guide the strategic decisions and the development of reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. 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 AI solutions using Python, computer vision, and generative models like LLMs and diffusion models.
• 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.
• Manage the execution of data science strategies and initiatives, including the design, development and implementation.
• Guide and execute the strategic decision in collaboration with data scientists, software engineers, and stakeholders to deliver high impact AI use case solutions.
• Lead the development and maintenance of complex machine learning models and algorithms.
• Lead and oversee the development of advanced machine learning models, ensuring their seamless integration into our production systems.
• Design and implement robust monitoring capabilities to maintain optimal performance and reliability.
• Experience in creating reports, projections, models, and presentations to executives.
• Use your skills to make an impact.

Required Qualifications

• Master's Degree and 5+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position preferably with a focus on developing production-ready AI solutions.
• 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML systems.
• Experience with Agentic AI System Design
• Experience collaborating with MLOps and DevOps teams
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, 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 reinforcement learning
• Experience with large-scale ETL

Preferred Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.

Location/Work Style

• Remote US

Why Humana?

At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it’s important to us too. That’s why we’re committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life.

• Work-Life Balance
• Generous PTO package
• Health benefits effective day 1
• Annual Incentive Plan
• 401K