Job Description
Optum AI at UnitedHealth Group
Optum AI is the enterprise AI team for UnitedHealth Group. We are a team of AI/ML scientists and engineers specializing in AI/ML engineering within healthcare. Our mission is to develop impactful AI/ML solutions that benefit various UnitedHealth Group businesses including:
- UnitedHealthcare
- Optum Financial
- Optum Health
- Optum Insight
- Optum Rx
Our Goals
- Drive responsible AI/ML innovation to transform healthcare
- Develop and support an enterprise AI/ML development platform
Team Highlights
- Impact at scale: Our solutions improve healthcare systems broadly.
- Innovative work: Cutting-edge ML, NLP, LLM, and Generative AI techniques are used and continually advanced.
- Collaboration: Partner with world-class experts, publish research, and file patents.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop and run data pipelines for ingress and egress of model outputs.
- Create scripts for ML model inference.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for MLOps and DevOps.
- Troubleshoot and develop software updates.
- Automate repetitive tasks and infrastructure provisioning.
- Provide guidance on tools and technologies.
- Document infrastructure designs and deployment processes.
Qualification Requirements
- Education & Experience:
- BS + 5+ years or MS + 3+ years.
- Skills:
- Proficiency in Python and either PySpark or Scala.
- Experience with data processing tools.
- Ability to deploy data pipelines and ML models on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, Databricks, AzureML).
- Knowledge of SDLC and Linux shell scripting.
- DevOps experience:
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Use of tools like Github, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Workflow orchestration frameworks (Prefect, Airflow, etc.).
- Security and vulnerability management.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in deploying ML models in production.
- Use of model observability tools.
- MLOps skills including model/version control tools like MLFlow.
- Data versioning tools (Delta Lake, DVC, LakeFS).
Company Mission
UnitedHealth Group aims to help people live healthier lives and improve the health system. Committed to equity, environmental stewardship, and reducing health disparities.
Application
- External candidate application.
- Internal employee application.
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