Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a global leader in health care innovation, developing cutting-edge solutions to improve health systems. The Lead AI/ML Software Engineer will own the delivery of machine learning insights, manage scalable systems, and partner with cross-functional teams to implement AI innovations in real-world products.
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
Skills
- Bachelor of Science in computer science or related quantitative field
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 5+ 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
- 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
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
Company Overview
We’re evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://frontiertherapies.optum.com.