Lead AI/ML Engineer

2 days ago

Houston, Texas, United States UnitedHealth Group Full-time
Overview

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In this role you lead a squad of AI/ML engineers to design, deploy, and govern production-grade AI solutions across the Real-Time AI Underwriting platform and related initiatives. You bridge engineering execution with leadership vision, shaping the AI roadmap and ensuring responsible, compliant outcomes. You mentor a high-performance team, drive MLOps maturity, and deliver measurable business impact at scale. Remote work within the U.S. is available.



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

Responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and deploy production-grade AI-powered solutions across ML, Generative AI, and multi-agent frameworks
  • Own end-to-end AI/ML technical roadmap and establish engineering standards
  • Leverage enterprise AI tools to streamline workflows and improve productivity
  • Evaluate emerging AI trends to inform strategic and innovative designs
  • Advance MLOps maturity including model versioning, CI/CD for ML, retraining, drift detection, and production monitoring
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise policies, Responsible AI principles, and data privacy rules (HIPAA/PHI)
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5–10 AI/ML engineers with goal setting and 1:1s
  • Conduct robust architectural, design, and code reviews to uphold security and Pythonic best practices

Key requirements
  • 10+ years of software development experience
  • 2+ years of hands-on AI/ML project implementation lifecycle
  • Hands-on NLP experience (text processing, embeddings, transformers, NER, text classification, or conversational AI)
  • Experience with GenAI (RAG pipelines, xhuatnn prompt engineering, LLM integration, fine-tuning like LoRA)
  • Knowledge of Agentic AI development (agentic workflows, tool orchestration, multi-agent systems)
  • Strong Python production-grade coding and code review discipline
  • Driver's license and reliable transportation
  • leadership and mentoring
  • communication and collaboration across teams
  • team governance and high-performance culture
  • NLP and transformers
  • GenAI and RAG pipelines
  • LLM integration and fine-tuning (LoRA)

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