Director, AI​/ML Engineering - Remote

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 a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. 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.

• Have impact at scale
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  We have the data and resources to make an impact n our solutions are deployed, they have the potential to make health care system work better for everyone
• Do ground-breaking work: Many of our current projects involve cutting edge ML, NLP and LLM techniques. Generative AI methods for working with structured and unstructured health care data are continuously being developed and improved. We are working in one of the most important frontiers of AI/ML research and development
• Partner with world-class experts on innovative solutions
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  Our team members are developing novel AI/ML solutions to business challenges. In some cases, this includes the opportunity to file patents and publish papers about the methods we develop. We also collaborate with AI/ML researchers at some of the world's top universities

• Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity
• Lead the team in bringing the ML models built by the Optum
  
  AI team to production with high scalability, reliability, availability, performance, and cost efficiency
• Contribute to our org-wide product ideation in collaboration with other engineering leaders, engineers, scientist, product managers, and SMEs
• Maintain hands-on involvement in key AI projects, actively contributing to code, model development, and technical solutions
• Drive innovation through research and adoption of cutting‑edge AI technologies and methodologies
• Personally design, develop, and implement AI and machine learning models using deep learning algorithms and deep understanding of agentic approaches
• Collaborate with cross-functional leadership to translate business needs into AI strategy
• Collaborate with team leads in the deployment and maintenance of AI models in production environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost‑effectiveness
• Lead the integration of AI solutions with existing systems and applications
• 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 GenAI approaches
• Mentor and help recruit AI/ML scientists and machine learning engineers to the team

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…