Remote Senior AI/ML Product Engineer – Health Tech

Optum; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 317,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase program

401(k) contribution

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Sr Principal AI/ML Engineer to own the hardest AI-enabled bets and build the end-to-end AI capabilities that power enterprise solutions in health care. You will write production code daily, deploy services, integrate with EHRs, and shape the AI product strategy in collaboration with CAIPO and Optum Health teams.

You’ll work with product, design, clinical, and operations partners to deliver secure, scalable AI-powered care tools, while embedding with local market teams to

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating production systems.
• Experience in healthcare and large, matrixed organizations.
• Full-stack experience across backend, APIs, data stores and front-end/mobile to ship a product.

Responsibilities

• Build & Deploy production software end to end, from backend services to patient interfaces.
• Own deployment: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, environments and safe release practices.
• Build AI agents and LLM features across channels used by patients and staff.

Skills

10+ years exp

Full-stack dev

AI/ML development

Security & privacy by design

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

FHIR APIs

Job description

Optum is seeking a Sr Principal AI/ML Engineer to own the hardest AI-enabled bets and build the end-to-end AI capabilities that power enterprise solutions in health care. You will write production code daily, deploy services, integrate with EHRs, and shape the AI product strategy in collaboration with CAIPO and Optum Health teams.

You’ll work with product, design, clinical, and operations partners to deliver secure, scalable AI-powered care tools, while embedding with local market teams to