Principal AI/ML Engineer - Sales Engineer- Remote
About The Position
Optum.ai is an AI-native healthcare consulting and engineering organization within Optum Insight. Our mission is to commercialize AI innovations developed across UnitedHealth Group and deliver transformative AI solutions to customers across the Payor, Provider and Life Sciences sectors. This is not a traditional Sales Engineering or pre-sales role. You will be a hands-on, customer-facing AI builder responsible for shaping opportunities, rapidly prototyping solutions, defining architectures, and helping customers envision and adopt AI solutions. We are looking for builders who can move seamlessly between executive conversations, whiteboarding architectures, and writing code. As a Principal AI Solution Lead, you will own the technical strategy for strategic pursuits, mentor other Solution Leads and partner with GTM and Delivery to commercialize AI solutions. 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.
Requirements
- Solid hands-on AI/ML/GenAI engineering experience
- Experience leading strategic AI solutioning or architecture initiatives
- Experience with Python, LLMs, RAG, AI agents and modern AI frameworks
- Customer-facing experience leading workshops and executive discussions
- Healthcare experience across Payor, Provider and/or Life Sciences
- Solid product and design sensibility with an eye for elegant user experiences
- Demonstrated ability to rapidly prototype and iterate using AI-assisted software engineering workflows
- Proven builder mindset with a bias for action, experimentation and ownership
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code or similar AI-assisted development tools
- Experience building customer-facing AI demonstrations and accelerators
- Startup, innovation lab or product engineering experience
- Experience creating reusable AI assets and solution patterns
Responsibilities
- Partner with GTM and Industry Leaders to shape strategic pursuits across Payor, Provider and Life Sciences
- Lead customer discovery workshops, executive presentations and technical solutioning sessions
- Track and manage the technical opportunity pipeline and support pursuit prioritization
- Mentor Solution Leads and establish engineering standards across strategic pursuits
- Design end-to-end AI/GenAI solution architectures
- Rapidly prototype proofs-of-value, demos and AI applications
- Support RFP/RFI responses, effort estimation and solution strategy
- Partner with AI Engineering & Delivery for seamless implementation handoff
- Participate in selective delivery rotations to remain close to production implementations
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
Principal
Education Level
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