Senior AI/ML Engineer — Remote Health Tech Innovator

Optum; Richardson (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Equity stock purchase

401k contributions

Recognition programs

Job summary

Optum Health Technology is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. You will lead model development, AI architecture, and scalable deployment while collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and clinical leaders.

The role offers remote work within the U.S., with in-office requirements four days a week for Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area hires.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering, machine learning engineering, or data science experience in a production enterprise environment.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience designing, statistical modeling, training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning or deep learning models in production.
• 3+ years of proficiency with Python and core AI/ML libraries (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy).
• 2+ years of experience with cloud platform infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and cloud-native AI/ML/data services (SageMaker, Azure ML, Vertex AI).
• 2+ years of experience in statistical analysis, predictive modeling, hypothesis testing, and advanced data manipulation on complex datasets.
• 2+ years of experience implementing MLOps, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and model governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions addressing healthcare challenges with ethical AI.
• Perform exploratory data analysis (EDA), feature engineering, statistical modeling, and hypothesis testing on large clinical datasets.
• Leverage enterprise AI tools to streamline engineering workflows and automate tasks.
• Evaluate AI/ML trends and techniques to inform solution design and innovation.
• Build and maintain production-grade ML pipelines for data preprocessing, training, evaluation, and monitoring.
• Architect scalable microservices and APIs to integrate ML models into enterprise apps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business goals into robust, secure solutions.
• Implement MLOps best practices for CI/CD, governance, and deployment at scale.

Skills

Software engineering

Machine learning engineering

Data science

Python

Statistical modeling

Model deployment

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s in CS/DS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

SageMaker

Azure ML

Vertex AI

Job description

Optum Health Technology is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions that improve patient outcomes and operational efficiency. You will lead model development, AI architecture, and scalable deployment while collaborating with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and clinical leaders.

The role offers remote work within the U.S., with in-office requirements four days a week for Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area hires.