Principal AI​/ML Engineer - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum AI is United Health Group's enterprise AI team. We are AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for the highest impact opportunities across United Health Group businesses including United Healthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. In addition to transforming the health care journey through responsible AI/ML innovation, our charter also includes developing and supporting an enterprise AI/ML development platform.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity

* Build Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in product ionizing the ML models

* Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of healthcare data sets to develop insights that increase business value

* Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis

* Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving

* Research and implement innovative machine learning approaches

* Mentor and help recruit AI/ML scientists and machine learning engineers to the team

* Present findings and insights to senior leadership and at internal venues

* Be the thought leader in cutting-edge AI research and proactively pursue IP submissions

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

* PhD in AI, computer science, data science, applied math or related technical fields

* 10+ years of industry/academic experience in machine learning or a related field

* 5+ years of building models for business application experience

* 5+ years leading technical teams

* Experienced mathematical background, especially in optimization theory, stochastic algorithms, and/or numerical methods

* Experience with state-of-the-art algorithms and topologies including, but not limited to: GNNs, GANs, Transformers, deep and wide, SSMs, LLMs among others

* Experience with LLM alignment (DPO, PPO among others)

* Solid Python programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensor Flow

* In-depth knowledge in Generative AI technology and Large Language Models (LLM) with focus in LLM optimization

* Advanced understanding of Deep Learning with applications in NLP and multimodal modeling

Preferred Qualifications:

* Experience in AI/ML in the healthcare and or Fintech sector

* Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams in a global and diverse environment

* Experience in establishing AI/ML best practices, standards, and ethics

* All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to United Health Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with…