**Description** Humana drives innovation to create artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven platforms, products, and services for the entire organization. The Artificial Intelligence Engineering team is a crucial part responsible for enabling and empowering NLP data scientists and business groups such as Pharmacy, Benefits & Claims processing with innovative software solutions and technologies on Azure. The Senior Cognitive/Machine Learning Professional will work with the data scientists, NLP specialists, analysts, business, and IT teams. In addition, the Senior Cognitive/Machine Learning Professional handles designing, implementing, and deploying NLP application services using Python, Azure services like Cognitive Services, and other open-source software available for handling unstructured and streaming data. Some examples of the team's innovation in collaboration with the Data Science team include: * Analyzing customer calls using NLP to extract features for use in Machine Learning and predictive models * Performing OCR and NLP on images to match faxed medical records with patient authorizations to deliver more effective healthcare * Using BERT-based language embedding technologies to improve the performance of NLP models * Deploying NLP models that analyze social worker, nurse, and physician notes to find evidence of social needs, to feed predictive models used to rank patients most likely to show conditions like food insecurity **Responsibilities** **Key Responsibilities** * Design and build secure NLP applications and scalable processing pipelines on Azure, using best practices in NLP, security, and Azure services * Develop technical design, implementation plans, code, CI/CD automated tests, and documentation * Perform code reviews, testing, and debugging * Understand available data, both structured and unstructured formats, and implement effective ways for processing in the cloud, including lambda, microservices architectures, and server less computing * Collaborate and work in a fast-paced agile environment, closely interacting with business and some of the industry's best software engineers, machine learning scientists, data engineers, and data scientists **Required Experience Skills and Qualifications** * Bachelor's Degree or above in computer science or equivalent * 5+ years of software development experience, with significant server-side Python experience * 2+ years of experience with system-to-system integration, synchronous and asynchronous through message bus and load balancers * Hands-on SQL and NoSQL database experience * 3+ years of experience with Azure or AWS, or GCP cloud services platforms * 2+ years of experience with NLP applications and techniques * Solid knowledge of data structures and algorithms * Willingness to learn modern technologies and understand unfamiliar data domains and new business processes quickly * CI/CD and test automation **Desirable Experience Skills and Qualification** * Experience in health care or financial services industry handling PHI/PII/PFI data * Open-source contributions and portfolio of shipped code at GitHub * Prior experience designing and building NLP APIs and services for data * Passion projects with NLP/ML/AI, for example, computer vision, image processing, NLP applications **Humana Vaccination Statement** Humana and its subsidiaries require vaccinated associates who work outside of their home to submit proof of vaccination, including COVID-19 boosters. Associates who remain unvaccinated must either undergo weekly negative COVID testing OR wear a mask at all times while in a Humana facility or while working in the field. **Work-At-Home Requirements** * WAH requirements: Must have the ability to provide a high speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided payment for their internet expense. * A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25x10 (25mpbs download x 10mpbs upload) is required. * Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role. * A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information \#LI - EL1 \#LI - Remote **Scheduled Weekly Hours** 40 <>