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Tennessee's AI engineer hiring is anchored by Nashville's healthcare technology sector, with companies like HCA Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and AllianceBernstein investing in machine learning infrastructure. Memphis and Knoxville contribute through logistics technology and Oak Ridge National Laboratory's applied AI research programs. International candidates pursuing AI engineer roles here will typically need H-1B visa or O-1 visa sponsorship.
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The Lead Solutions & AI Enablement Architect works with user groups to solve business problems with available technology including hardware, software, databases, and peripherals. The lead works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.
Job Description Summary
The Lead Solutions & AI Enablement Architect provides architecture leadership for CenterWell segments programs and platforms, shaping conceptual and reference architectures, governing solution designs, and aligning delivery teams to cloud and data strategies. The scope includes high-priority initiatives as well as interoperability and provider-data integrations that span CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
You will operate within CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture. You will collaborate with product, engineering, EA Activation, security, data, and operations. You will engage governance forums to enable Integrated Health across CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
Key Activities
- Quickly conduct structured knowledge transfer with existing architects and relevant stakeholders to capture critical in-flight designs and decisions.
- Review current initiatives and establish an architectural roadmap aligned with organizational priorities.
- Develop or refine reference architectures and design patterns for core platforms and solutions.
- Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to validate designs against enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Define integration strategies and solution blueprints for key systems and data flows.
- Establish architecture review processes and decision forums to support delivery readiness and quality assurance.
Demonstrated depth in:
- Agent orchestration (tools/function calling, planning, memory, multi-agent collaboration)
- Enterprise guardrails (security, compliance, responsible AI)
- Robust MLOps/LLMOps practices for observability, evaluation, and cost/performance optimization
- Proven ability to integrate AI systems with event-driven microservices, vector databases/feature stores, and CI/CD pipelines, while leading reference architectures and cross-cloud patterns that scale reliably.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management across product, engineering, and enterprise functions.
Core Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Own end-to-end solution architecture for Home Health initiatives, translating business outcomes into composable designs across systems of experience, operations, and insight.
- Reference Architectures & Patterns: Author and maintain reference architectures for data platform, clinical documents NLP, RPA/automation, and interoperability patterns; steward pattern reuse across CenterWell when applicable.
- Governance & Compliance: Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews; ensure designs conform to enterprise guardrails and privacy/security requirements. Participate in governance forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR).
- Delivery Enablement: Partner with product and engineering to convert conceptual designs into executable architectural runways; de-risk delivery with measurable non-functional requirements (NFRs).
- Data & Integration Strategy: Define integration contracts and domain boundaries for provider data, EMR, and Snowflake/Databricks/Azure data platforms; ensure observability, lineage, and data protection.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with CenterWell leaders, EA Activation, security, and segment CIO teams; communicate decisions clearly to executives and delivery teams.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8 years of progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture/engineering, information security, or other specialized technology field.
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience with healthcare delivery or payer/provider ecosystems; proven delivery within regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI).
- Hands-on architecture across Azure services and Snowflake/Databricks (data lake/data platform patterns, data sharing, identity & access, vault/secrets management).
- Demonstrated leadership producing reference architectures and governing solution designs across multiple teams.
- Strong competency in APIs/event-driven integration, security models, and NFRs (availability, performance, resilience).
- Generative & Agentic AI, Multi-Cloud is a specialty of a seasoned Solutions Architect. This expert has hands-on experience delivering generative and agentic AI on Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. They leverage services like Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock. Their expertise includes implementing production-grade capabilities, such as RAG, fine-tuning, prompt/knowledge management, and secure data integrations.
Preferred Qualifications — Core Home Health
- Experience with clinical document NLP pipelines and automation/RPA in Home Health workflows (eligibility, authorization).
- Familiarity with Home Healthcare solutions conceptual architecture and operating models and artifacts; ability to evolve them with measurable outcomes.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity/access management flows and Azure group governance within tenants.
- Experience participating in portfolio governance and activation forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR) and translating those decisions into architectural runways.
Preferred Qualifications — Agentic AI Skills
- Agent orchestration: planning, tool/function calling
- Long/short-term memory and context management
- Multi-agent collaboration and role assignment
- Human-in-the-loop review and overrides workflow
- Safety guardrails, policy enforcement, governance
- Telemetry: tracing, evaluation, A/B testing
- Reliability: retries, fallbacks, deterministic handoffs
- Tool ecosystem integration (APIs, MCPs)
Additional Information
Work-At-Home 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 25×10 (25 Mbps download × 10 Mbps 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.
Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
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.
$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Become a part of our caring community
The Lead Solutions & AI Enablement Architect works with user groups to solve business problems with available technology including hardware, software, databases, and peripherals. The lead works on problems of diverse scope and complexity ranging from moderate to substantial.
Job Description Summary
The Lead Solutions & AI Enablement Architect provides architecture leadership for CenterWell segments programs and platforms, shaping conceptual and reference architectures, governing solution designs, and aligning delivery teams to cloud and data strategies. The scope includes high-priority initiatives as well as interoperability and provider-data integrations that span CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
You will operate within CenterWell IT – Cross-CenterWell Architecture. You will collaborate with product, engineering, EA Activation, security, data, and operations. You will engage governance forums to enable Integrated Health across CenterWell and Humana Insurance.
Key Activities
- Quickly conduct structured knowledge transfer with existing architects and relevant stakeholders to capture critical in-flight designs and decisions.
- Review current initiatives and establish an architectural roadmap aligned with organizational priorities.
- Develop or refine reference architectures and design patterns for core platforms and solutions.
- Collaborate with governance and compliance teams to validate designs against enterprise standards and regulatory requirements.
- Define integration strategies and solution blueprints for key systems and data flows.
- Establish architecture review processes and decision forums to support delivery readiness and quality assurance.
Demonstrated depth in:
- Agent orchestration (tools/function calling, planning, memory, multi-agent collaboration)
- Enterprise guardrails (security, compliance, responsible AI)
- Robust MLOps/LLMOps practices for observability, evaluation, and cost/performance optimization
- Proven ability to integrate AI systems with event-driven microservices, vector databases/feature stores, and CI/CD pipelines, while leading reference architectures and cross-cloud patterns that scale reliably.
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management across product, engineering, and enterprise functions.
Core Responsibilities
- Architectural Leadership: Own end-to-end solution architecture for Home Health initiatives, translating business outcomes into composable designs across systems of experience, operations, and insight.
- Reference Architectures & Patterns: Author and maintain reference architectures for data platform, clinical documents NLP, RPA/automation, and interoperability patterns; steward pattern reuse across CenterWell when applicable.
- Governance & Compliance: Lead architecture checkpoints and risk reviews; ensure designs conform to enterprise guardrails and privacy/security requirements. Participate in governance forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR).
- Delivery Enablement: Partner with product and engineering to convert conceptual designs into executable architectural runways; de-risk delivery with measurable non-functional requirements (NFRs).
- Data & Integration Strategy: Define integration contracts and domain boundaries for provider data, EMR, and Snowflake/Databricks/Azure data platforms; ensure observability, lineage, and data protection.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with CenterWell leaders, EA Activation, security, and segment CIO teams; communicate decisions clearly to executives and delivery teams.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8 years of progressive information technology experience directly related to architecture/engineering, information security, or other specialized technology field.
- 5+ years of solution architecture experience with healthcare delivery or payer/provider ecosystems; proven delivery within regulated environments (HIPAA/PHI).
- Hands-on architecture across Azure services and Snowflake/Databricks (data lake/data platform patterns, data sharing, identity & access, vault/secrets management).
- Demonstrated leadership producing reference architectures and governing solution designs across multiple teams.
- Strong competency in APIs/event-driven integration, security models, and NFRs (availability, performance, resilience).
- Generative & Agentic AI, Multi-Cloud is a specialty of a seasoned Solutions Architect. This expert has hands-on experience delivering generative and agentic AI on Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. They leverage services like Vertex AI, Azure OpenAI, and Amazon Bedrock. Their expertise includes implementing production-grade capabilities, such as RAG, fine-tuning, prompt/knowledge management, and secure data integrations.
Preferred Qualifications — Core Home Health
- Experience with clinical document NLP pipelines and automation/RPA in Home Health workflows (eligibility, authorization).
- Familiarity with Home Healthcare solutions conceptual architecture and operating models and artifacts; ability to evolve them with measurable outcomes.
- Knowledge of enterprise identity/access management flows and Azure group governance within tenants.
- Experience participating in portfolio governance and activation forums (e.g., ARB, TRB, MOR) and translating those decisions into architectural runways.
Preferred Qualifications — Agentic AI Skills
- Agent orchestration: planning, tool/function calling
- Long/short-term memory and context management
- Multi-agent collaboration and role assignment
- Human-in-the-loop review and overrides workflow
- Safety guardrails, policy enforcement, governance
- Telemetry: tracing, evaluation, A/B testing
- Reliability: retries, fallbacks, deterministic handoffs
- Tool ecosystem integration (APIs, MCPs)
Additional Information
Work-At-Home 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 25×10 (25 Mbps download × 10 Mbps 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.
Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
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.
$142,300 - $195,700 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
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. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Search AI Engineer Jobs in TennesseeAI Engineer Jobs in Tennessee: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies sponsor visas for AI engineers in Tennessee?
HCA Healthcare, Vanderbilt University, AllianceBernstein, and FedEx are among Tennessee employers with documented H-1B sponsorship histories for technical roles. Oak Ridge National Laboratory also sponsors AI and data science positions, particularly for research-focused engineers. Sponsorship activity is heaviest in Nashville's healthcare technology and fintech sectors, where demand for machine learning expertise has grown steadily.
Which visa types are most common for AI engineer roles in Tennessee?
The H-1B is the most commonly used visa for AI engineer positions in Tennessee, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or a related field. The O-1A is an option for engineers with demonstrable recognition in the field. Candidates already authorized through OPT or STEM OPT extension can also work while pursuing long-term sponsorship.
Which cities in Tennessee have the most AI engineer sponsorship jobs?
Nashville accounts for the majority of AI engineer sponsorship activity in Tennessee, driven by its concentration of healthcare technology companies, financial services firms, and an expanding startup ecosystem. Knoxville is a secondary hub, supported by the University of Tennessee and proximity to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Memphis contributes primarily through logistics and supply chain technology employers such as FedEx and AutoZone.
How to find ai engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Tennessee?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for visa sponsorship, making it straightforward to search AI engineer roles in Tennessee without sorting through positions that exclude international candidates. You can filter by state and role type to surface relevant openings at Nashville healthcare tech firms, Knoxville research employers, and Memphis logistics companies. Creating a profile also helps match your background to employers with active sponsorship histories in Tennessee.
Are there any Tennessee-specific factors AI engineers should know when pursuing sponsorship?
Tennessee has no state income tax on wages, which affects how prevailing wage calculations compare to cost-of-living considerations when evaluating offers. Oak Ridge National Laboratory's AI research positions may have additional national security clearance requirements that can complicate or extend the sponsorship process for some nationalities. University pipelines from Vanderbilt, University of Tennessee, and Tennessee Tech regularly feed local employers, meaning competition for sponsored roles can be strong at the entry level.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored ai engineer jobs in Tennessee?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.