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Principal AI/ML Engineer - Remote

Optum

Bell, CA
1 day ago
$122,100 - $234,700

Job Description

Join Optum as a Principal AI/ML Engineer and leverage your expertise to drive transformative AI/ML solutions in healthcare, impacting millions of lives. Collaborate with top experts and work on cutting-edge projects that define the future of health equity.

Key Responsibilities

  • Drive end-to-end Machine Learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale and complexity
  • Build Machine Learning models, perform proof-of-concept, experiment, optimize, and deploy models into production
  • Perform hands-on analysis and modeling of healthcare data sets to develop insights that increase business value
  • Run A/B experiments, gather data, and perform statistical analysis
  • Establish scalable, efficient, automated processes for large-scale data analysis, machine-learning model development, model validation and serving
  • Research and implement innovative machine learning approaches
  • Mentor and help recruit AI/ML scientists and machine learning engineers to the team
  • Present findings and insights to senior leadership and at internal venues
  • Be the thought leader in cutting-edge AI research and proactively pursue IP submissions

Required Qualifications

  • PhD in AI, computer science, data science, applied math or related technical fields
  • 10+ years of industry/academic experience in machine learning or a related field
  • 5+ years of building models for business application experience
  • 5+ years leading technical teams
  • Advanced understanding of Deep Learning with applications in NLP and multimodal modeling
  • Proven solid Python programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
  • Experienced mathematical background, especially in optimization theory, stochastic algorithms, and/or numerical methods
  • Experience with state-of-the-art algorithms and topologies including GNNs, GANs, Transformers, deep and wide, SSMs, LLMs
  • Proven in-depth knowledge in Generative AI technology and Large Language Models (LLM) with focus in LLM optimization

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience in AI/ML in the healthcare and or Fintech sector
  • Experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams in a global and diverse environment
  • Experience in establishing AI/ML best practices, standards, and ethics

Benefits & Perks

Comprehensive benefits packageIncentive and recognition programsEquity stock purchase401k contribution