Senior AI/ML Engineer - Remote, Enterprise LLM Solutions

Latitude; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Incentive programs

Job summary

Optum is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own the intelligence layer of our consumer-facing solutions. You will design, build, evaluate, and improve AI components including LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks to deliver measurable, safe, enterprise-ready capabilities.

You’ll work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. with Minneapolis-area in-office four days a week for local hires; collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure governance, quality, and impact at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of engineering experience with Python or similar language.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, RAG, embeddings, vector search, prompt engineering, and agent frameworks.
• Experience with model APIs, orchestration frameworks, data pipelines, and evaluation tooling.
• Ability to design AI workflows that are explainable, testable, governable, and safe.
• Understanding of model limitations, bias, and responsible AI principles.

Responsibilities

• Design AI-powered solutions, LLM workflows, prompt chains, agents, RAG patterns, model integrations, and decision-support tools.
• Develop prompt strategies, tool-calling patterns, grounding techniques, guardrails, and fallback behaviors.
• Partner with Data Engineering to access trusted data sources.
• Build evaluation datasets, scoring rubrics, model-performance tests, and failure-mode analysis tools.
• Monitor output quality, hallucination risk, relevance, accuracy, and latency in production environments.
• Collaborate with QA, Responsible AI, Security, Privacy, Compliance, and Architecture teams for enterprise readiness.

Skills

Python

LLMs / AI workflows

Prompt engineering

Model APIs

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Data Science / CS

Tools

Vector search

Embeddings

Agent frameworks

Job description

Optum is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to own the intelligence layer of our consumer-facing solutions. You will design, build, evaluate, and improve AI components including LLM workflows, RAG pipelines, and evaluation frameworks to deliver measurable, safe, enterprise-ready capabilities.

You’ll work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. with Minneapolis-area in-office four days a week for local hires; collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure governance, quality, and impact at scale.