Lead AI Platform Engineer — End-to-End Lifecycle

Optum; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our Enterprise AI organization builds platforms that govern and operate AI systems across the business, spanning intake and registration, automated governance gating, request routing, and runtime observability and monitoring.

Lead AI/ML Engineer role focuses on end-to-end governance platform design and hands-on integration development, with remote flexibility within the U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4+ years of software engineering or AI/ML engineering experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering, including building and deploying production-level AI systems.
• 3+ years of experience designing multi-component distributed systems or platform architectures.
• 3+ years of professional experience developing production-grade services and integrations using Python.
• 2+ years of experience designing or implementing systems involving governance, runtime monitoring, observability, or lifecycle management of software/AI systems.
• 2+ years of experience leading technical design or guiding engineering teams across complex technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with an emphasis on responsible use of AI.
• Architect and implement end-to-end AI lifecycle governance capabilities linking intake and registration, automated governance gating, request routing, and runtime observability/monitoring.
• Design technical integrations connecting pre-production governance with post-production monitoring, alerting, feedback, and containment.
• Define data flows, interfaces, and integration contracts between system components to support lifecycle traceability and compliance.
• Build and deploy core integration components through hands-on engineering, automated testing, and low-level design.
• Partner with and guide cross-functional engineering teams across intake, governance, routing, and observability to align on technical designs and execution sequencing.
• Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate tasks, and drive continuous improvement.
• Evaluate emerging trends, platforms, and frameworks to inform solution design, continuous improvement, and strategic innovation.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Python

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Cloud-native

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

MS in CS/AI (preferred)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our Enterprise AI organization builds platforms that govern and operate AI systems across the business, spanning intake and registration, automated governance gating, request routing, and runtime observability and monitoring.

Lead AI/ML Engineer role focuses on end-to-end governance platform design and hands-on integration development, with remote flexibility within the U.S.