Lead AI/ML Scientist - Remote

Optum / UnitedHealth Group
Eden Prairie, MN / remote within the U.S. / Minneapolis

About the job

Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team. We are AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for the highest impact opportunities across UnitedHealth Group businesses including UnitedHealthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. In addition to transforming the health care journey through responsible AI/ML innovation, our charter also includes developing and supporting an enterprise AI/ML development platform.

Responsibilities

Develop novel AI approaches for healthcare using both structured and unstructured data

Build and test deep learning and traditional ML models in distributed computing environments

Design and plan experiments, conduct statistical analysis and create data visualizations

Communicate findings with business stakeholders and collaborate to develop solutions that meet customer needs

Collaborate with the Responsible Use of AI (RUAI) team to ensure that the delivered solutions are compliant with company policies and standards

Develop code and model documentation, patents and publications in scientific conferences and journals

Collaborate with engineering teams to develop robust data pipelines of MLOps procedures for new solutions

Stay up to date with latest technologies and literature

Qualifications

Minimum

PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field

5+ years of AI/ML experience (LLM, NLP)

5+ years of experience with Python, classical ML methods and deep learning, including deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or Tensorflow

Proven publication track record in top ML/NLP conferences/journals

Preferred

Experience with LLM frameworks and/or NLP approaches such as text embedding and text classification

Experience with distributed computing approaches such as Spark

Experience with Snowflake and other relational databases

Experience working on collaborative software projects using GitHub

Proven solid technical communication skills