AI​/ML Engineer - Remote Nationwide or Office - MN​/DC​/NJ

Position: AI/ML Engineer - Remote Nationwide or Office - Based in MN/DC/NJ
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Minnetonka, Minnesota, United States Salary: $98,500 - $176,000/year

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United Health Group 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 in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Provider Digital Technology team delivers a unified, intuitive digital entry point for United Healthcare providers and partners to access tools, services, and information. We build secure, scalable capabilities that simplify how providers discover, navigate, and engage across the Portal, API, EDI, Chat, and Voice channels.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies;
Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

We partner across United Healthcare and United Health Group to integrate enterprise applications and data sources while applying responsible AI, privacy, security, safety, observability, and human-centered design principles. This work reduces friction, improves provider workflows, and enables faster, more effective problem-solving across the health care ecosystem.

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:

Apply AI tools and capabilities to build solutions for high-value provider use cases

Design, build, test, deploy, and continuously improve production-grade software services, APIs, and applications that meet customer, business, reliability, and scalability needs

Develop AI-powered capabilities using prompt engineering, tool use, structured outputs, and model evaluation techniques

Collaborate with product managers, architects, data scientists, and platform teams to translate health care requirements into working, scalable AI solutions

Follow established solution architecture, enterprise AI standards, reusable platform capabilities, and engineering best practices when designing and implementing features

Write automated tests, model and prompt evaluations, and CI/CD pipelines; instrument solutions for observability, performance, and resiliency; and participate in production support

Integrate AI capabilities with enterprise data, APIs, event-driven services, cloud platforms, and digital channels while maintaining secure and reliable data flows

Own assigned technical work end to end, raise risks and tradeoffs early, and help move AI features from proof of concept through production

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:

B.S./B.E./BTECH/ MCA(CSE/IT) or equivalent experience4+ years of experience with team programming (e.g. check-in, check-out, GIT version control)3+ years of advanced knowledge of Java JEE development concepts using the following tools/frameworks3+ programming experience across Java, ReactJS,…