Senior Data Scientist – Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a AI Engineer to join our dynamic team and help us drive the continued success of our business insights and web application initiatives. You will be instrumental in transforming analytics into personalized, valuable data-driven insights for our internal customers, enabling them to leverage data for key strategic decisions. As a part of our leading Analytics team, you’ll have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies and LLM models and more. In addition to impacting a great team, you’ll also discover the career opportunities you’d expect from an industry leader.

Working Schedule:

This is a full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, standard business hours.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing micro-services using cutting edge technologies
• Integrate and deploy LLM models to analyse and interpret large datasets
• Implement approach for applications with Generative AI using prompt engineering practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide AI/data-driven solutions
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of Large Language Models
• Solid understanding of prompt engineering and RAG
• Solid understanding of Azure cloud platform
• Solid understanding Vector databases like ChromaDB or Faiss
• Solid understanding of data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering
• Familiarity LangChain library
• Familiarity of micro-services and software engineering practices
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python
• Proven excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.