Senior AI/ML Product Engineer — Health Tech (Remote)

UnitedHealth Group; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 185,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division seeks a Sr Principal AI/ML Engineer for the AI & Product Office to own the hardest technical bets and ship AI-enabled products that improve health outcomes.

This hands-on role writes production code daily, builds end-to-end services and integrations across EHRs, and collaborates with product, design, clinical and operations partners across local markets while enabling remote work within the U.S.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development and delivery experience.
• Strong experience shipping full-stack software in production.
• Healthcare domain knowledge and enterprise-scale systems experience.

Responsibilities

• Build & deploy: design, develop, test, and deploy end-to-end production software and integrations.
• Evaluate & operate: add automated evaluations, monitoring, and incident response for reliability.
• Partner & multiply: set engineering practices and document decisions across markets and platforms.

Skills

10+ years software engineering

Full-stack development

Healthcare experience

AI/ML systems

Production deployments

APIs & data

Cloud infrastructure

Security & compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division seeks a Sr Principal AI/ML Engineer for the AI & Product Office to own the hardest technical bets and ship AI-enabled products that improve health outcomes.

This hands-on role writes production code daily, builds end-to-end services and integrations across EHRs, and collaborates with product, design, clinical and operations partners across local markets while enabling remote work within the U.S.