Optum · 11 hours ago
Senior AI/ML Software Engineer - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$92K/yr - $164K/yr
5+ years expOptum is a global leader in health care innovation, developing cutting-edge solutions to improve health systems. As a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer, you will design and implement AI/ML systems to address real-world healthcare challenges, focusing on enhancing patient engagement and optimizing clinical trials.
EducationHealth CareMedicalPharmaceutical
Responsibilities
Own the inference and delivery of machine learning insights to multiple customers
Manage, monitor, and scale machine learning systems, delivering insights to multiple customers
Partner with cross-functional engineering teams to implement scalable, flexible pipelines that bring AI innovations into real-world products
Work with large-scale data and distributed computing frameworks to process and analyze high-volume healthcare datasets efficiently
Drive pipeline efficiency and reliability through profiling, refactoring and advanced engineering
Develop new data pipelines to improve ML model usage
Qualification
Required
Bachelor of Science in computer science or related quantitative field
5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 3+ years building and operating production ML systems
Expert-level Python experience, including writing production-grade, testable, and maintainable code
Hands-on experience building and deploying APIs using FastAPI (or similar Python web frameworks) in a production environment
Solid experience deploying, managing, and scaling services in Kubernetes, including: Containerization (Docker), Helm or equivalent deployment tooling, Resource tuning, autoscaling, and failure recovery
Proven experience with MLOps practices, including: Model deployment and versioning, Monitoring model performance, drift, and system health
Preferred
Experience with AzureML, DataBricks, and Azure Kubernetes
Experience with distributed computing approaches
Expertise in ML Ops, for example, model monitoring, drift detection, and event-based model retraining
Proven solid technical communication skills
Proven ability and drive to learn independently
Proven problem-solving and analytical thinking
Proven ability to explain technical decisions to stakeholders
Benefits
A 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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