Senior 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.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions.

We're Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving United Health Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through United Healthcare & Optum.

The Optum Technology Chief Digital Office (CDO) Leadership team is transforming Optum to be an industry-leading Consumer brand. We are on a journey towards delivering a best-in-the-industry consumer experience to our patients and providers by delivering personalized digital solutions that support our consumers throughout their healthcare journeys. This team is transforming to meet the moment - to begin radically altering the way our customers engage with the healthcare system using modern tech to solve some of the most complex problems experienced along the way.

Serving all of United Health Group's digital technology needs, the CDO team is responsible for driving outcomes across nearly 30 million+ human lives with United Healthcare insurance, a number which puts UHC at the top of the pack as the largest managed care provider in the United States.

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.

• Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML models using GenAI technologies (LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI)
• Utilize agentic AI frameworks such as Claude Agents SDK, OpenAI Agents SDK, or Langchain
• Deploy AI/ML solutions in production environments, preferably on AWS or GCP
• Conduct rigorous testing, validation, and performance optimization of Agentic AI systems
• Containerize AI/ML projects and implement CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git Hub Actions
• Collaborate with stakeholders to preprocess, analyze, and interpret large-scale datasets
• Continuously monitoring emerging trends and advancements in generative AI and ML technologies

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Data Science, or related field
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python or Typescript

• Experience deploying production agentic AI workloads
• Experience measuring and improving LLM based applications
• Experience with evaluating AI/ML workloads utilizing a mixture of traditional AI/ML techniques

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

Pay is based on several 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…