Remote Senior AI Data Scientist for Healthcare Costs

UnitedHealth Group; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase plan

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead AI-driven affordability initiatives across healthcare datasets and analytics platforms. You will shape AI strategy, guide cross-functional teams, and deliver measurable cost and quality improvements with scalable solutions.

The role offers remote flexibility within the U.S. while aligning with enterprise architecture and governance. Strong communication with executive stakeholders is required as you drive enterprise AI maturity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data science, statistics, ML, or AI

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex Data Science and AI initiatives end-to-end
• Translate business challenges into scalable analytical/AI solutions
• Design AI-enabled products and analytics capabilities
• Provide architecture guidance for analytical products
• Establish best practices for feature engineering and model deployment
• Communicate insights to executive leadership
• Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams
• Drive innovation with emerging AI technologies

Skills

Data science

SQL

Python/R

Healthcare data

Production experience

Communication

Travel ability

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead AI-driven affordability initiatives across healthcare datasets and analytics platforms. You will shape AI strategy, guide cross-functional teams, and deliver measurable cost and quality improvements with scalable solutions.

The role offers remote flexibility within the U.S. while aligning with enterprise architecture and governance. Strong communication with executive stakeholders is required as you drive enterprise AI maturity.