UnitedHealth Group is looking to hire a Principal Data Scientist Machine Learning/Deep Learning to design and develop state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence solutions for medical applications, aiming to improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional work experience using machine/deep learning technologies ; or publication history of machine/deep learning and NLP subject area experience
- 5+ years of experience with Python
- 3+ years of experience with LLM approaches such as RAG, agentic approaches, or fine tuning of large language models
- 2+ years of experience working with transformer architectures or similar architectures (such as state space models, BERT or GPT)
- Knowledge of algorithms and techniques within a computational domain with emphasis on text processing
- Experience with PyTorch
- Experience with Azure ML and/or AWS
Responsibilities
- Enhancement of existing company NLP technologies and extension of those systems in new cloud-based applications
- Emphasis is on development of novel machine/deep learning techniques for information extraction and synthesis
- Create research code for clinical NLP solutions deployed at scale in production environments including statistical methods, deep learning, and large language model technologies
- Work will involve all aspects of methods development from initial PoC implementation to performance characterization and production launch of new methods
- The successful candidate will have a strong history of publication in Machine/Deep Learning with an emphasis on Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval and/or Information Extraction
- Exposure to recent research literature and the ability to effectively implement new technologies is key
- The successful candidate will have proven success in taking machine/deep learning solutions to production environments
Other
- Master’s or advanced degree in a computational domain
- Solid Communication skills both written and verbal
- PhD in a computational domain
- Experience within the medical domain
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.
