Senior AI ML Engineer - Remote - Remote Eligible

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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 support of AI 10.0 scaling and leveraging AI to apply processing rules directly from source documentation via enterprise assets, we're adding resources to our Claim Edit Hub team. This team will work to derive rules/edits directly from source documents (i.e. Policies) and expose them via Agentic workflow to make them accessible in a real time manner. This will also support our 'shift left' strategy to enable claim edits/rules to be executed on Trial Claims to provide transparent cost estimates to Providers and Members.

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:

• Responsible AI & Compliance
• Building & Productionizing AI Systems (agentic services, APIs/SDKs, RAG/CAG, E2E pipelines)
• Ensure Model Quality, Evaluation, Security & Safety
• Implement Observability, Operations excellence
• Drive Architecture, Governance & Engineering Standards
• Cross Functional Leadership & Collaboration

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:

• 5+ years in Observability & Monitoring
• 3+ years in Programming & Packaging
• 3+ years in ML / DL Frameworks
• 3+ years in GenAI & Agents
• 3+ years in Pipelines & Orchestration
• 3+ years in Model Registry, Experiment Tracking & A/B
• 3+ years in Serving & Inference
• 3+ years in MLOps / DevOps
• 3+ years in Responsible AI & Compliance
• 3+ years in Security
• 1+ years in Cloud Platforms

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.