Remote AI & ML Engineer for Enterprise Health

UnitedHealth Group; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 99,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI capabilities that drive decision-making, productivity, and innovation across the Enterprise Finance organization. You will lead development of AI-powered solutions including LLM workflows, RAG, intelligent agents, and decision-support tools.

Remote-friendly role, work from anywhere in the U.S., with collaboration across Finance, Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Responsible AI teams to deliver

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering, machine learning, or AI engineering.
• 1+ years of cloud-native architecture, APIs, and scalable software systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions and architectures—including LLM workflows, prompt orchestration chains, agent-based solutions, RAG applications, and decision-support capabilities to solve complex business challenges
• Develop prompt strategies, grounding approaches, tool-calling patterns, guardrails, and fallback mechanisms to improve solution quality, safety, and reliability
• Partner with Data Engineering teams to ensure access to trusted, governed, and high-quality enterprise data sources
• Establish evaluation frameworks, test datasets, scoring rubrics, and model-performance benchmarks across AI deliverables
• Monitor and optimize output quality, relevance, accuracy, consistency, latency, cost efficiency, and hallucination risk in production systems
• Conduct failure-mode analysis, optimize model performance, and implement continuous improvements to AI systems
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Quality Engineering, Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Enterprise Architecture teams
• Document AI solution behavior, limitations, risk controls, and operational monitoring requirements
• Support production readiness through observability, monitoring, model evaluation, and drift detection practices
• Evaluate emerging AI trends and leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to inform solution design, streamline workflows, and drive innovation

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning

AI engineering

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field

Tools

Cloud-native architecture

APIs

Scalable software systems

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an AI/ML Engineer to design, build, and operationalize AI capabilities that drive decision-making, productivity, and innovation across the Enterprise Finance organization. You will lead development of AI-powered solutions including LLM workflows, RAG, intelligent agents, and decision-support tools.

Remote-friendly role, work from anywhere in the U.S., with collaboration across Finance, Data Engineering, Architecture, Security, and Responsible AI teams to deliver