Senior AI/ML Scientist - Remote Health Care Innovation

UnitedHealth Group; Bellevue (WA); Remote; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Optum AI, UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team, is seeking an AI/ML scientist to develop and deploy innovative healthcare models. You will work on high-impact opportunities across UnitedHealthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx, advancing responsible AI/ML across the organization.

You’ll collaborate with software engineers to productionize models, perform experiments, and mentor junior researchers.

Qualifications

• PhD in AI, CS, data science or related technical field.
• 10+ years industry/academic experience in ML.
• 5+ years building models for business applications.
• 5+ years Python and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch or TensorFlow).
• Deep learning applicable to speech, NLP, and multimodal tasks.

Responsibilities

• Build ML models and deploy them into production with software engineering collaboration.
• Analyze healthcare datasets to develop actionable insights.
• Run A/B tests, collect data, and perform statistics.
• Create scalable, automated data analysis and model validation pipelines.
• Research and implement innovative ML approaches.
• Mentor and recruit AI/ML scientists and engineers.
• Present findings to senior leadership and internal venues.
• Pursue IP submissions and contribute to thought leadership.

Skills

PhD in AI

10+ years ML

ML modelling 5+ yrs

Python 5+ yrs

Deep Learning NLP/Multimodal

Education

PhD in AI or related field

Job description

Optum AI, UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team, is seeking an AI/ML scientist to develop and deploy innovative healthcare models. You will work on high-impact opportunities across UnitedHealthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx, advancing responsible AI/ML across the organization.

You’ll collaborate with software engineers to productionize models, perform experiments, and mentor junior researchers.