Principal AI/ML Engineer - Healthcare AI (Remote)

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Optum Tech in the United States is seeking a Principal AI/ML Engineer (director-level) to research, design, and ship enterprise AI solutions for healthcare applications and workflows. You will personally write production code, solve complex problems, and own delivery from experimentation through secure production operation.

Working in a fast-moving environment, you will engage with CIO-level executives, translate priorities into focused research questions and production-ready solutions, and

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with executive leadership to identify high-value opportunities, clarify constraints, and shape technical priorities.
• Lead rapid applied research and experimentation; evaluate models, architectures, and AI tools with time-boxed experiments.
• Build and ship production AI systems; design, test, and deploy AI-enabled services and applications; ensure enterprise integration, reliability, and scalability.
• Engineer reliable agentic workflows; implement orchestration, state/memory management, retries, timeouts, and human oversight.
• Use LLM-assisted coding to explore architectures, implement features, generate tests, and validate code and dependencies.

Job description

Optum Tech in the United States is seeking a Principal AI/ML Engineer (director-level) to research, design, and ship enterprise AI solutions for healthcare applications and workflows. You will personally write production code, solve complex problems, and own delivery from experimentation through secure production operation.

Working in a fast-moving environment, you will engage with CIO-level executives, translate priorities into focused research questions and production-ready solutions, and