Remote Senior AI Product & Platform Lead

NaviHealth

Boston (MA)

Remote

USD 185,000 - 317,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Incentive and recognition programs

Equity stock purchase and 401k

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Sr Principal AI/ML Engineer to own the hardest technical bets and drive AI-enabled product strategy. You will write production code daily, build end-to-end services and integrations with EHRs, and partner across product, design, clinical, and operations to deploy reliable solutions.

You will shape the enterprise AI investment, work with local market teams, and help scale a small cross-functional product group.

Qualifications

10+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating production systems.
Experience in the healthcare industry or large matrixed organizations.
Full-stack experience: backend, APIs, data stores, and frontend to ship product.
Experience building/shipping large language model apps or agents to real users.
Ability to use AI coding and agent tools daily in real projects.
Solid testing, CI, observability, and on‑call ownership.

Responsibilities

Build and deploy production software end to end, from backend to patient-facing interfaces.
Own deployment practices including IaC, CI/CD, environments, and safe release processes.
Build integrations with EHRs and care systems (Epic, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks) using FHIR/HL7 and vendor APIs.
Develop AI agents and LLM features across channels (SMS, voice) with safe prompts and tools.
Prototype quickly against real systems and scale to production.