Senior Data Scientist

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The Enterprise AI organization at Humana is a pioneering force, advancing AI innovation enterprise-wide across Humana’s Insurance, Center Well, 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.

• 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. Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Auto Gen, 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 & Dev Ops 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.

• 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 Dev Ops 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

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

Work Style:
This position will have a hybrid work style, with 3 days per week in office and 2 days per week remote/home.

• Louisville, KY
• Boston, MA
• New York, NY
• Dallas, TX
• Tampa, FL
• Washington, DC (Arlington, VA)

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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.

$117,600 - $161,700 per year

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

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal…