UnitedHealth Group is looking to solve business challenges by developing and deploying AI/ML solutions across its various business units, aiming to improve health outcomes and optimize the healthcare system.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with machine learning libraries and frameworks
- Experience with modern AI tools, frameworks, and methodologies
- 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
- Comprehensive knowledge of statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and AI principles
- In-depth knowledge in Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLM) and Agentic technology
- Solid and current programming skills in Python or other relevant programming languages
Responsibilities
- 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 OptumAI 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 team leads in the deployment and maintenance of AI models in production environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness
Other
- A PhD in AI, computer science, data science, applied math or related technical fields
- 8+ 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
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
