AI​/ML Engineer

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Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States Salary: $98,500 - $176,000/year

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United Health Group Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Genoa Healthcare, part of Optum Rx, is seeking an experienced AI/ML Engineer to design, build, deploy, and support production AI/ML, Generative AI, and agentic solutions. This role will partner with pharmacy operations, product, clinical, compliance, data, and engineering teams to translate business challenges into secure, scalable, and measurable AI capabilities.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, develop, evaluate, deploy, and maintain production AI/ML solutions

Build predictive models for forecasting, classification, recommendations, anomaly detection, and workflow optimization

Develop Generative AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, embeddings, semantic search, and AI agents

Create reusable pipelines for data preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining

Integrate AI services into pharmacy applications, APIs, data platforms, and business workflows

Implement MLOps and LLMOps practices, including automated testing, CI/CD, versioning, observability, and release management

Monitor solutions for accuracy, quality, drift, groundedness, latency, reliability, cost, and business performance

Apply Responsible AI, security, privacy, governance, auditability, and human-review controls

Collaborate with technical and business stakeholders to identify opportunities, define success measures, and deliver measurable outcomes

Contribute to reusable AI patterns, engineering standards, documentation, and technical mentoring

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:

2+ years of experience in AI/ML, data science, software engineering, data engineering, or a related discipline2+ years of experience developing and deploying production AI/ML solutions in enterprise or cloud environments2+ years of experience with Generative AI, LLMs, RAG, embeddings, semantic search, or related technologies2+ years of proficiency in Python and SQL2+ years of experience with cloud platforms, distributed data technologies, automated testing, source control, and CI/CD2+ years of experience with model evaluation, monitoring, MLOps, Responsible AI, security, privacy, and governance

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Demonstrated familiarity with Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) or similar delivery models

Proven hands-on knowledge of Azure, Databricks, or other cloud AI/ML platforms

Experience with building AI agents, intelligent automation, or GenAI solutions

Demonstrated knowledge of AI evaluation, monitoring, and observability

Proven ability to integrate AI with enterprise data, APIs, and applications

Experience in healthcare or other regulated industries

Proven ability to create reusable AI/ML patterns, platforms, and accelerators

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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

The salary for this role will range from $98,500 - $176,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At United Health Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system…