Principal Decision Intelligence Engineer

Become a part of our caring community The Principal Decision Intelligence Engineer is the technical lead for the NBA platform's decision intelligence capabilities. This is a principal-level full stack engineering role with end-to-end ownership of the decision system: from member feature signals through optimization and decisioning logic through production deployment. You set technical direction, guide software development teams, mentor engineers, and operate with full autonomy on complex architectural problems.

End-to-end decision system delivery Own the complete pipeline from member signals to live decisions: feature engineering, decisioning logic, optimization, scoring, deployment into NBA platform software/infrastructure, and production monitoring. Decision intelligence architecture Design the system that determines what to do for each member, when, and through which channel. Translate business objectives into reward structures, constraints, and optimization formulations, and know when a rule, a model, or a solver is the right tool. Feature and data layer Design and build the member feature layer on the Databricks Lakehouse (clinical, behavioral, web clickstream, socioeconomic signals) in partnership with data engineering. Define what signals matter and ensure they are available, correct, and timely at decision time. Planning and optimization Lead the design of how the system plans sequences of actions across a member journey, balancing short-term engagement with long-term outcome goals. This includes reward shaping, constraint satisfaction, policy evaluation, and reasoning about delayed feedback. Deployment and production systems Own how decision outputs flow into live systems: scoring pipelines, serving infrastructure, action masking, and real-time feedback loops from downstream behavioral signals. Experimentation and measurement Design holdout frameworks and online evaluation strategies that isolate the effect of decisioning changes. Define success metrics and translate experiment results into system improvements and roadmap input. Technical team leadership Lead a team of engineers across the full delivery lifecycle. Run design reviews, set the technical quality bar, and keep delivery moving while holding the architecture together. Guide software development teams building the services, APIs, and infrastructure that support decision intelligence algorithms in production. Mentorship Develop team members through code reviews, pairing, and ongoing technical guidance. AI-assisted development Champion the use of AI coding and research tools (Claude, Copilot, etc.) across the team and model what high-leverage AI-augmented engineering looks like in practice.

Hybrid - Boston, MA with travel to Humana's onsite Hub Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field 10+ years in software engineering with deep exposure to data-intensive applications, applied AI, or decision systems, with a track record of end-to-end software delivery 2-5 years of product people leadership Experience leading a multifunctional technical team, setting direction, removing blockers, and being accountable for results Strong foundation in optimization and sequential decision-making, including objective functions, constraints, tradeoffs across time, and how system design choices affect what gets selected or learned Experience designing reward structures, evaluation criteria, or planning