Senior AI/ML Scientist - Remote, LLM & Generative AI

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

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Job summary

UnitedHealth Group's Optum AI team is seeking a seasoned ML scientist to advance LLM-based health care solutions. You will develop and refine models and contribute to enterprise AI development.

You will collaborate with experts, pursue publications or patents, and help deploy responsible AI practices while working remotely within the U.S. with occasional in-office days in designated hubs.

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to impact health care at scale.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in computer science or related quantitative field.
• 5+ years of ML experience in NLP, multimodal processing, or related AI domains.
• 3+ years with DL frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• 3+ years developing ML applications.
• 3+ years working in Responsible AI metrics/practices.
• 3+ years ML/RL research and development.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing models that extend and improve LLM capabilities and reliability.
• Research, design and implement scalable machine learning models for real-time processing.
• Developing new solutions and science best practices in Responsible AI.
• Developing our research and innovation agenda.
• Defining strategies, priorities, and metrics for technical progress in Deep Learning, RAG and LLMs.
• Collaborating with the Optum AI team and fellow scientist and engineers.
• Driving adoption of new science and best practices among service teams.

Skills

ML for NLP

Multimodal ML

DL frameworks

ML app development

Responsible AI metrics

ML/RL research

Education

Master's degree in CS or quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

UnitedHealth Group's Optum AI team is seeking a seasoned ML scientist to advance LLM-based health care solutions. You will develop and refine models and contribute to enterprise AI development.

You will collaborate with experts, pursue publications or patents, and help deploy responsible AI practices while working remotely within the U.S. with occasional in-office days in designated hubs.

This role offers a comprehensive benefits package and opportunities to impact health care at scale.