Senior User Interface Design Engineer

Humana is hiring a Senior User Interface Design Engineer to create intuitive, high-trust digital experiences for both clinical tools and care-facing platforms. This role leads end-to-end UI design across assigned product verticals, with an emphasis on accessibility, plain-language clarity, and reducing cognitive load for care teams.

• Own end-to-end UI design for assigned product verticals, covering discovery through pixel-perfect delivery, including workflow design
  , information architecture
  , and interface design for data-dense, human-in-the-loop clinical workflows.
• Support and contribute to design systems
  , reusable patterns, and scalable design standards.
• Share design recommendations and underlying rationale with stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and build alignment across teams.
• Produce interactive, high-fidelity prototypes to model complex interactions and validate user flows.
• Contribute to how AI-assisted tools are integrated into the design process as internal tooling access expands.
• Plan and run qualitative user research
  , usability testing, and feedback sessions with users and stakeholders to validate decisions and iterate quickly.
• Champion WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility and plain-language design so interfaces remain inclusive across different levels of digital and health literacy.
• Apply a healthcare and compliance lens with sensitivity to privacy
  , patient trust
  , and regulatory requirements
  .

• 5+ years of hands-on product design experience (UI/UX) delivering digital products, web applications, or complex enterprise platforms from concept through launch, supported by a strong portfolio featuring complex interfaces with clear visual hierarchy and clean execution for data-dense applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction
  , Design, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Expert-level Figma skills including auto-layout, tokens, component variables, and interactive prototyping.
• Ability to combine strategic thinking with hands-on execution, bringing an informed perspective while working within established design system and standards.
• Proven capability to manage competing priorities, operate effectively with ambiguous requirements, and maintain high design quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment.
• Strong communication skills to explain design decisions, present to cross-functional stakeholders, and directly discuss technical constraints and tradeoffs with engineers.
• Documented success using design to improve business and customer outcomes, such as patient satisfaction, engagement, retention, or operational efficiency.
• AI fluency
  : understanding how AI-driven in-product features behave (including latency handling, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop workflows) and genuine interest in AI-assisted design tools.

• Figma
• WCAG 2.1 AA

• 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
• Many other opportunities

• Experience designing within clinical, healthcare, or health-tech environments, or in other regulated/high-stakes domains.
• Experience designing interfaces for complex data pipelines, dynamic real-time data, or decision-support tools.

• Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL (onsite)
• Scheduled Weekly
  
  Hours:
  
  40
• Pay Range: USD 97, per year
• This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan
  , based on company and/or individual performance.

The candidate must live close to one of Humana's designated IT locations: NYC, NY;
Louisville, KY;
Tampa, FL;
Fort Lauderdale, FL;
Dallas/Frisco, TX;
Boston, MA;
Washington,

D.C;
Atlanta, GA, Nashville, TN, Chicago, IL, or Charlotte, NC.