Director, AI/ML Engineering — Lead HealthTech AI Strategy

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 177,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

Optum, Eden Prairie, MN, seeks a Director of AI/ML Engineering to lead enterprise AI strategy, architecture, and delivery across health financial platforms. You will guide high-performing teams, shape AI governance, and partner with executives to deliver measurable business value for millions of users.

You will drive transformation through scalable AI solutions, modern MLOps, and cloud integration while promoting responsible innovation and collaboration across business units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent software experience.
• 10+ years tech leadership in software or data engineering.
• 5+ years scaling AI/ML teams.
• 3+ years cloud platform experience (AWS/Azure/GCP) & AI frameworks.
• Experience establishing MLOps & AI governance.

Responsibilities

• Integrate enterprise AI tools, set AI goals in team development plans, and align hiring with technical competencies while actively removing barriers to accelerate adoption
• Champion the ethical use of AI by embedding transparency, fairness, accountability, and data privacy throughout the lifecycle
• Strategically use AI/ML technologies to solve healthcare and financial challenges, unlock opportunities, deliver measurable business value
• Champion AI as a core driver of team success and shape how AI systems are developed, deployed, monitored, and scaled across enterprise platforms
• Provide technical and strategic leadership for AI/ML engineering architecture, modern MLOps practices, automated CI/CD pipelines, and cloud platform integration
• Partner with senior leaders, product owners, and enterprise architects to define long-term AI roadmaps aligned with business growth and innovation goals

Skills

AI leadership

Team management

AI strategy

Cloud architectures

MLOps & CI/CD

Ethical AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Job description

Optum, Eden Prairie, MN, seeks a Director of AI/ML Engineering to lead enterprise AI strategy, architecture, and delivery across health financial platforms. You will guide high-performing teams, shape AI governance, and partner with executives to deliver measurable business value for millions of users.

You will drive transformation through scalable AI solutions, modern MLOps, and cloud integration while promoting responsible innovation and collaboration across business units.