Lead Data Scientist – Autonomous Goal Management

🕒 August 21

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $142.3k - $195.7k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

📊 Data Scientist

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Humana

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

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Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Architect goal-setting and goal-decomposition mechanisms for autonomous agents in uncertain or open-ended environments • Design and implement dynamic planning systems, including hierarchical planning, curriculum learning, and scratchpad/self-refinement loops • Collaborate on memory, tool-use, and feedback-loop designs for multi-step, self-directed agent behavior • Develop evaluation frameworks for alignment with human intent, consistency, and progress against long-horizon objectives • Prototype agents interfacing with APIs, MCP servers, search engines, databases, or real-world actuators to pursue goals safely and efficiently • Explore mechanisms to detect and mitigate goal misalignment, looping behavior, or undesirable emergent strategies • Work across teams to integrate goal alignment with safety, alignment, and operational reliability mechanisms

🎯 Requirements

• Master's Degree • 4+ years of experience in research/ML engineering or an applied research scientist position • Preferably focused on developing production-ready AI solutions • 2+ years of experience leading development of AI/ML systems • Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data analysis/data mining tools • Experience with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, LangChain, LangGraph, or AutoGen • Experience with high-performance, large-scale ML systems • Experience with language modeling with transformers • Experience with symbolic planning, causal reasoning, and model-based RL • Experience with large-scale ETL • Work from a dedicated space without ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI/HIPAA information • Home internet with at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload speed • Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field preferred • Demonstrated experience shipping autonomous or semi-autonomous agents in production or simulation preferred • Experience with LLM-based agents using scratchpad/self-reflection or hierarchical task decomposition preferred • Understanding of autonomy risk mitigation strategies, including off-switch protocols or bounded rationality preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance • Medical benefits • Dental benefits • Vision benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Company holidays • Personal holidays • Paid parental leave • Paid caregiver leave • Short-term disability • Long-term disability • Life insurance • Personal wellness support • Smart healthcare decision support • Remote work arrangement • Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings