Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist - Remote

About the role

Careers at Optum AI offer the opportunity to work on impactful AI/ML projects that transform the health care journey. Our team members are involved in developing and deploying AI/ML solutions that can make a significant difference in the health care system.

Responsibilities

• Apply advanced statistical, predictive modeling, and Agentic AI to optimize healthcare and digital experiences
• Collaborate with the Responsible Use of AI (RUAI) team to ensure compliance with company policies and standards
• Research innovative approaches for developing and evaluating Agentic AI solutions, and apply these findings to the solutions you are creating
• Develop code and model documentation, patents and publications in scientific conferences and journals
• Collaborate with engineering teams to develop robust data pipelines of MLOps procedures for new solutions
• Stay up to date with latest technologies and literature

Requirements

• MS in computer science or a related quantitative field and 4+ years of AI/ML experience OR a PhD in computer sciences or a related quantitative field focusing on AI/ML
• 3+ years of AI/ML experience (LLM, NLP)
• Experience with LLM frameworks and/or NLP approaches such as text embedding and text classification
• Expertise in Large Language Modeling and Transformer Architectures with experience in prompt engineering, evaluation, and LLM optimization
• Proficiency in AI/ML engineering development with Python

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI Cloud services like Azure ML, Databricks, Azure OpenAI, or similar services in GCP / AWS
• Experience with Snowflake and other relational databases
• Proven solid publication record in top tier AI/ML/NLP venues (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CHIL, etc.)
• Proven solid technical communication skills

Benefits

Our comprehensive benefits package includes a range of offerings designed to support your well-being and financial security. These benefits are subject to eligibility requirements.