Remote Lead AI/ML Engineer - Production ML & MLOps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity stock purchase

401(k) contribution

Job summary

Optum, a global health technology leader, seeks a Lead AI/ML Engineer for the Behavioral Health Technology team. The role is remote within the U.S. with an in‑office requirement of at least four days per week for hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C.

area. You will own discovery, design, and deployment of production ML models and scalable AI solutions, build end‑to‑end MLOps pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• 2+ years of AI/ML engineering experience with production models.
• 2+ years of hands-on Python experience with core ML libraries.
• 2+ years building end-to-end MLOps pipelines using MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Docker/Kubernetes.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals: Git, CI/CD, and unit testing.
• Preferred: Generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation.

Responsibilities

• Own discovery, scoping, system design, build, and deployment of production ML models and scalable AI solutions.
• Design end-to-end MLOps pipelines for data ingestion, feature engineering, model training, validation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to turn business needs into robust AI capabilities.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers while promoting engineering best practices.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain deployed models and pipelines for high availability and performance.

Skills

AI/ML engineering

Python programming

CI/CD & version control

Model deployment & monitoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related quantitative discipline

Tools

MLflow

Kubeflow

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Optum, a global health technology leader, seeks a Lead AI/ML Engineer for the Behavioral Health Technology team. The role is remote within the U.S. with an in‑office requirement of at least four days per week for hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C.

area. You will own discovery, design, and deployment of production ML models and scalable AI solutions, build end‑to‑end MLOps pipelines, mentor junior engineers, and partner with data scientists, software engineers, and product managers to