Sr AI/ML Data Engineer Remote or Office-Based in MN/DC

4 days ago

San Francisco, California, United States UnitedHealth Group Full-time
Overview

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As a Senior AI/ML Software Engineer, you will build AI-powered data products and modern digital experiences across analytics and healthcare platforms. You’ll work on Compass reporting and the Quality & Patient Safety platform, delivering intelligent frontends, backend services, and cloud-native data solutions. You enable self-service analytics, operational insights, and quality improvement through scalable, AI-enabled applications. This is a hands-on, full-stack role with a clear focus on impactful healthcare solutions and responsible AI. You will collaborate across cross-functional teams and contribute to architecture and technology decisions.



Compensation / Benefits
  • comprehensive benefits package
  • incentive and recognition programs
  • equity stock purchase
  • 401k contribution
  • remote work flexibility

Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and deploy AI/ML and Generative AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, agents, and modern AI frameworks
  • Build scalable full-stack applications using React, TypeScript, Java/Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs, and SQL
  • Develop intuitive dashboards, reporting solutions, and AI-enabled workflows
  • Enhance self-service analytics, reporting, and data exploration capabilities
  • Develop applications supporting quality, patient safety, benchmarking, insights, action management, and workflow automation
  • Integrate applications with enterprise data platforms and cloud-native data ecosystems
  • Design and implement microservices, APIs, data models, and event-driven architectures
  • Apply engineering best practices including CI/CD, automated testing, observability, security, and performance optimization
  • Collaborate with product, analytics, business, and platform teams to deliver high-quality solutions
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and contribute to architecture and technology decisions

Key requirements
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
  • 5+ years in production-grade data platforms and pipelines using Python or Java, SQL, Spark/PySpark, and Databricks or similar
  • 3+ years designing batch, streaming, xhuatnn and event-driven data solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • 2+ years delivering production Generative AI solutions (RAG, retrieval, evaluation, monitoring, deployment enablement)
  • 2+ years modern data engineering practices (data quality, observability, metadata, lineage, governance)
  • Proven ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, influence cross-functional teams, and translate ambiguous requirements into scalable solutions
  • leadership and mentoring
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • communication of technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Java/Spring Boot

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.