Unknown Company is hiring a Lead Data Scientist

Humana is looking for a Lead Data Scientist to guide strategic decisions and lead the development of reliable, interpretable AI systems for healthcare. You will be responsible for designing and building AI solutions, including generative models and autonomous agents, and integrating them into enterprise workflows.

What You'll Do

• Design AI solutions using Python, computer vision, and generative models like LLMs and diffusion models, ensuring responsible development aligned with ethical standards.
• Build autonomous AI agents using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, and CrewAI to support reasoning and decision-making in healthcare.
• Embed AI into Humana’s systems and workflows, partnering with business teams to co-create solutions and communicate AI capabilities.
• Work with engineering and product teams to implement best practices for deploying and maintaining AI models in production (MLOps & DevOps).
• Manage the execution of data science strategies and initiatives, including design, development, and implementation.
• Guide strategic decisions 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 seamless integration into production systems.
• Design and implement robust monitoring capabilities to maintain optimal performance and reliability.
• Create reports, projections, models, and presentations to executives.

What We're Looking For

• Master's Degree and 5+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position.
• 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.

Nice to Have

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

Technical Stack

• Languages & Core: Python, SQL
• Specialties: Computer Vision, LLMs, Diffusion Models, Transformers
• Frameworks & Tools: LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch

Team & Environment

You will join a rapidly expanding team of dedicated data scientists, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders as part of Humana's Enterprise AI organization.

Benefits & Compensation

• Compensation Range: $142,300 - $195,700 per year
• Work-Life Balance
• Generous PTO package
• Health benefits effective day 1
• Annual Incentive Plan
• 401K with excellent company match
• Well-being program
• Paid Volunteer Time Off
• Potential bi-weekly internet expense payment for associates in CA, IL, MT, or SD.
• Telephone equipment provided.

Work Mode

This is a remote position open to candidates across the United States.

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.