AI/ML Research Intern - PHD Level - Remote

UnitedHealth Group Inc.•Plymouth, MN

30d•$40 - $60•Remote

About The Position

Internships at Optum. If you want an intern experience that will dramatically shape your career, consider a company that's dramatically shaping our entire health care system. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of companies, is a leading health services and innovation company dedicated to helping make the health system work better for everyone. With more than 94,000 people collaborating worldwide, Optum combines people, technology, data and action to improve the delivery, quality and efficiency of health care. Our internship opportunities provide a view of a rapidly evolving, incredibly challenging marketplace of ideas, products and services. Here, you'll work with some of the smartest people in the business on assignments that matter. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together Optum AI is expanding and seeking Research Interns for Summer 2025 who are interested in advancing the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning and developing novel solutions that improve healthcare outcomes. We encourage individuals who are passionate about advancing the state of the art in deep learning, natural language processing, generative models, reinforcement learning, signal processing, privacy-preserving machine learning, causal inference and related areas to apply. Our team works on the state-of-the-art machine learning in health and has close ties to academia, including collaborations with world experts from UCLA, NYU, and others. Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team. We are AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for the highest impact opportunities across UnitedHealth Group businesses including UnitedHealthcare, Optum Financial, Optum Health, Optum Insight, and Optum Rx. In addition to transforming the health care journey through responsible AI/ML innovation, our charter also includes developing and supporting an enterprise AI/ML development platform. Optum AI team members: Have impact at scale: We have the data and resources to make an impact at scale. When our solutions are deployed, they have the potential to make health care system work better for everyone Do ground-breaking work: Many of our current projects involve cutting edge ML, NLP and LLM techniques. Generative AI methods for working with structured and unstructured health care data are continuously being developed and improved. We are working in one of the most important frontiers of AI/ML research and development Partner with world-class experts on innovative solutions: Our team members are developing novel AI/ML solutions to business challenges. In some cases, this includes the opportunity to file patents and publish papers about the methods we develop. We also collaborate with AI/ML researchers at some of the world's top universities Some topics you might work on include: State of the art foundation models for clinical text utilizing UHG's unique data LLM-based screening for clinical trials using patient notes Predicting disease onset and progression and quantifying uncertainty from multimodal data Next generation named entity recognition systems for clinical text Generative AI for statistical and causal reasoning Improving patient safety and improve quality of care You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week. You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Requirements

Currently enrolled in a PhD degree program with a concentration in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science, computer science, statistics, biomedical informatics or a related field
Experience implementing and training machine learning algorithms or statistical analysis
Deep understanding of the mathematical foundations of machine learning
Familiarity with various deep learning frameworks like PyTorch, Tensorflow etc.
Programming competence in Python, R, Java, C++, Matlab or another modern programming language
Legally authorized to work in the US without any restrictions. Proof will be required
Must be eligible to work in the U.S. without company sponsorship

Nice To Haves

Will be completing PhD degree within 1-2 years
First author publications in NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, UAI, AAAI, KDD, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACL or other computer science conferences or medical journals
Experience working in an interdisciplinary environment, particularly across engineering and medicine
Software tool development experience: source control (git), packaging, documentation
Knowledge and experience working with genomic data, wearables or with medical records data
Demonstrated ability to work in a team
Proven solid spoken and written communication skills
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Responsibilities

Perform research which advances the state of the art in AI and ML
Implement algorithms and evaluate their performance on healthcare data
Communicate results across an interdisciplinary team and explore use cases which improve real world healthcare outcomes
Document research internally and externally, including publications in machine learning and other scientific conferences and journals

Benefits

In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements).
No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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