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Minnetonka MN USA
In-Office
113K-193K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • Big Data • Healthtech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software • Analytics
The Role
This senior AI/ML engineering role focuses on designing ML models embedding creation RAG pipeline development and integrating AI solutions within enterprise applications. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and optimization of AI pipelines are key responsibilities.
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Requisition Number: 2342904
Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care pharmacy benefits data and resources they need to feel their best. Here you will find a culture guided by inclusion talented peers comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
This role is a senior handson AI/ML engineering position focused on building enhancing and integrating Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions within Databricks. Responsibilities include:
The role partners closely with Data Scientists Product Teams and Platform Teams to deploy AI-driven intelligence across PI use cases.
Primary Responsibilities:
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:
Preferred Qualifications:
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 $112700 to $193200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
At UnitedHealth Group our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race gender sexuality age location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today however there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race national origin religion age color sex sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal laws rules or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care pharmacy benefits data and resources they need to feel their best. Here you will find a culture guided by inclusion talented peers comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
This role is a senior handson AI/ML engineering position focused on building enhancing and integrating Machine Learning and Generative AI solutions within Databricks. Responsibilities include:
- Designing and implementing ML models
- Creating custom embeddings
- Building RAG pipelines
- Implementing vector databases
- Developing agentic workflows with LangChain
- Integrating AI into enterprise applications for Claims Payment Integrity (PI)
The role partners closely with Data Scientists Product Teams and Platform Teams to deploy AI-driven intelligence across PI use cases.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Contribute to experimentation with novel ML and Generative AI architectures
- Create and maintain embedding models (domain-specific embeddings document/text embeddings)
- Support RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG) solutions including semantic search vector databases and LLM integration
- Help design and implement AIpowered enterprise applications
- Analyze large datasets to identify trends patterns and actionable insights
- Partner with AI/ML Engineers and Leads to enhance existing models and improve model accuracy and performance
- Optimize AI pipelines for scalability performance reliability and cost efficiency
- Integrate AI/ML solutions into enterprise systems by partnering closely with data engineering product and platform teams
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders communicating complex technical concepts clearly
- Contribute to skill development for engineers and interns in AI/LLM techniques
- Comply with company policies procedures and directives
- Collaborate with research engineering and product teams to translate cutting-edge AI advancements into production-ready capabilities. Uphold ethical AI principles by embedding fairness transparency and accountability throughout the model development lifecycle.
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:
- Bachelor's/Master's in CS Engineering Mathematics/Statistics or related
- 12+ years of relevant experience including strong ML model development
- 10+ years of experience with CI/CD familiarity using Git GitHub Actions/Jenkins Terraform
- 8+ years of experience with Azure cloud for compute security and resource management
- 7+ years of experience in Databricks Spark Python Scala SQL
- Built 5+ enterprise ML models end-to-end (data prep → feature creation → training → evaluation)
- LLM & GenAI Skills:
- 2+ years of experience creating custom embedding models
- 2+ years of experience building RAG pipelines
- 2+ years of experience with Vector DBs & semantic search
- 2+ years of experience using LangChain for agentic workflows (tools agents memory)
- 2+ years of experience with OpenAI/Azure OpenAI APIs
Preferred Qualifications:
- NLP or enterprise search experience
- Experience with multimodal or transformer-based models
- Agile/Scrum experience
- Proven healthcare or PI/FWA analytics exposure
- Proven excellent communication and partnership skills
- Domain Knowledge
- Call Center (Member & Provider)
- ProviderRCM
- EHR/clinical datasets
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 $112700 to $193200 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
At UnitedHealth Group our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race gender sexuality age location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today however there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race national origin religion age color sex sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal laws rules or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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HQ: Eden Prairie MN
160000 Employees
Year Founded: 2011
What We Do
Optum part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care pharmacy benefits data and resources they need to feel their best. Here you will find a culture guided by inclusion talented peers comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. At Optum we support your well-being with an understanding team extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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