Optum ยท 2 days ago
Principal AI/ML Engineer - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$135K/yr - $231K/yr
10+ years expOptum is a global leader in health care innovation focused on developing cutting-edge solutions to improve health systems. The Principal AI/ML Engineer will drive end-to-end generative AI and machine learning projects, design robust AI architectures, and mentor a team of AI/ML scientists and engineers.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Drive end-to-end Generative AI and Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity
Design robust AI architectures, ensuring that systems are scalable, secure, and efficient. This involves selecting appropriate technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
Build Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy your models into production; work closely with software engineers to assist in productionizing 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. Continuously assess the performance of AI systems, optimizing algorithms and models to improve accuracy and efficiency
Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation, ML operations
Research and implement innovative machine learning approaches
Mentor and help recruit AI/ML scientists and machine learning engineers to the team
Qualification
Required
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related major
10+ years of industry/academic experience in machine learning or a related field
5+ years of building models for business application experience
5+ years of experience leading technical teams
Proven advanced understanding of Deep Learning with applications in NLP and multimodal modeling
Proven solid Python programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow and big data processing tools like Hadoop and Spark
Practical experience with AI technology stacks and deployment and operations methodologies in public cloud (Microsoft Azure technology stack preferred)
Experience with state-of-the-art algorithms and architectures including, but not limited to: GNNs, GANs, Transformers, deep and wide, SSMs, LLMs among others
Proven in-depth knowledge in Generative AI technology and Large Language Models (LLM) with focus in LLM optimization
Proven solid communication skills to articulate technical concepts to other engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Preferred
Experience in AI/ML in the healthcare sector
Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams in a global and diverse environment
Experience in establishing AI/ML best practices, standards, and ethics
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Daniel Castillo
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Care Delivery
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Jay Green
Chief Financial Officer
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