Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist - Remote
About The Position
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation, developing cutting-edge solutions to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group’s enterprise AI team, comprised of AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for high-impact opportunities across UnitedHealth Group businesses and are responsible for developing and supporting an enterprise AI/ML development platform. Our team members have the opportunity to make an impact at scale, do ground-breaking work with cutting-edge ML, NLP, and LLM techniques, and partner with world-class experts on innovative solutions, potentially leading to patents and publications. We are working in one of the most important frontiers of AI/ML research and development.
Requirements
- Master degree in computer science or related quantitative field
- 5+ years of experience using ML to solve problems in natural language processing (NLP), multimodal RT processing, and/or other AI domains
- 3+ years of DL frameworks such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
- 3+ years of developing machine learning applications
- 3+ years of experience in developing Responsible AI metrics, best practices and/or solutions
- 3+ years of solid ML and RL research and developing experience
Nice To Haves
- Ph.D. in Machine Learning with focus on NLP and/or GenAI
- Experience with Advanced Deep Learning, applied math and statistics
- Experience in fine-tuning LLMs and/or improving pre-train LLM’s performance
- Solid technical and scientific knowledge in generative AI
Responsibilities
- Developing and implementing models and methods 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 the 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
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
