Remote Senior AI/ML Engineer for Healthcare

Taleo; Eden Prairie (MN); Remote; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems for healthcare, with remote capability and Central Time Zone preference. You will work with OpenAI/Claude agents, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and FastAPI/Node.js services to integrate LLMs into clinical workflows.

Responsibilities include multi-agent orchestration, guardrails for PII and safety, IaC deployments to AWS, and collaboration with product and clinical teams to measure performance and user

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Python or TypeScript or other relevant backend languages such as Java, Node.js.
• Experience building RESTful or GraphQL APIs in production environments.
• Understanding of LLM fundamentals (prompting, context management, or model integration).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy production agentic AI systems using SDKs to power conversational healthcare experiences.
• Build multi-agent orchestration systems that route user requests across AI agents using A2A protocols.
• Develop FastAPI backends and Node.js/TypeScript services that integrate LLMs with healthcare systems through GraphQL APIs and AWS AppSync.
• Implement healthcare-specific guardrails including PII detection/scrubbing, prompt safety, and compliance controls for patient-facing applications.
• Deploy containerized AI/ML workloads to AWS with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and clinical stakeholders to design, evaluate, and optimize agentic AI workflows using quantitative metrics and user feedback.
• Monitor LLM application performance, token usage, latency, and user satisfaction in production environments serving millions of health plan members.
• Stay current with emerging patterns in generative AI, agent frameworks, and responsible AI practices for healthcare applications.

Skills

Python/TypeScript/Java

Backend APIs

LLM fundamentals

Agent frameworks

AWS Bedrock/Vertex AI/Azure OpenAI

Terraform/IaC

FastAPI/Express

AWS services

HIPAA compliance

Multi-agent systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field

Tools

OpenAI Agents SDK

Claude Agents SDK

LangGraph

AWS Bedrock

Vertex AI

Azure OpenAI

Job description

UnitedHealth Group seeks a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy agentic AI systems for healthcare, with remote capability and Central Time Zone preference. You will work with OpenAI/Claude agents, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, and FastAPI/Node.js services to integrate LLMs into clinical workflows.

Responsibilities include multi-agent orchestration, guardrails for PII and safety, IaC deployments to AWS, and collaboration with product and clinical teams to measure performance and user