Lead AI Engineer - Healthcare, LLMs & HIPAA (Remote)

Optum; Richardson (TX); On-site; USD 112,700 - 193,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Remote-friendly environment

Job summary

OptumInsight is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and scale agentic AI systems that improve healthcare delivery and operations.

In this IC leadership role, you will drive architecture, development, and deployment of AI-powered solutions, integrate with internal platforms, and ensure compliant use of AI in a regulated environment. Remote within the U.S. with in‑office 4 days/week for Minneapolis/DC hires.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related fields.
• 10+ years of total technology experience.
• 8+ years hands‑on software development/data engineering/analytics with solid AI/ML delivery (Azure preferred) with Scala, Python, PySpark.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI architectures and workflows.
• Build retrieval augmented generation and hybrid search pipelines for healthcare data.
• Develop scalable microservices and APIs for clinician tools and internal apps.
• Own MLOps/LLMOps: CI/CD for models/prompts, tests, versioning, and deployment.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, IT, or related fields

Tools

Databricks

ADF/Airflow

Docker/Kubernetes

MySQL & NoSQL

Agile/Scrum CI/CD

LLMs & GenAI

LangChain LangGraph RAG

Azure OpenAI

Job description

OptumInsight is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to design, build, and scale agentic AI systems that improve healthcare delivery and operations.

In this IC leadership role, you will drive architecture, development, and deployment of AI-powered solutions, integrate with internal platforms, and ensure compliant use of AI in a regulated environment. Remote within the U.S. with in‑office 4 days/week for Minneapolis/DC hires.