Senior Manager, AI/ ML Engineering – Remote

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Senior Manger of AI/ML engineering role is an exciting, dynamic role within the Enterprise Security and Resilience Office (ESRO) Cyber AI Team. Our data science team builds innovative solutions to facilitate UHG’s cybersecurity situational awareness, analytics, and investigations. The data and systems we protect are distributed across the world, are a complex combination of technologies, and are always evolving. Cyber security data is collected in structured, unstructured, and semi-structured formats, at varying velocities, and in a complex, dynamic security environment. This creates unique data science challenges in support analysts, and investigators. The ideal candidate has experience creatively navigating development, analytic, and engineering challenges within a large organization.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Managing a team with highly motivated data scientists
• Developing, motivating and supporting team member career development
• Working with internal Cyber Defense customers to produce meaningful cybersecurity threat models
• Collecting, cleaning, processing, and analyzing data related to enterprise cybersecurity
• Developing data science models within an operational CICD pipeline
• Working with source data teams to understand security and operational processes through data
• Developing solutions for technical users to access data from the Data Lake through a variety of means, including APIs, flat file extracts, or web applications
• Remaining up to date and on the cutting edge of Big Data technology
• Constantly learning and adapting to new techniques, languages, and technologies

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related quantitative and technical field
• Relevant bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experiences
• 7+ years of experience delivering statistical models to customers in a large organization
• 5+ years of real-world data science experience in a large organization or supporting a large organization
• 5+ years of implementing products within AI/ML solutions on prem and in cloud
• 5+ years of people management experience
• Background experience with data engineering with an affinity for developing code from the command line
• Foundational knowledge in information technology, including hardware, networking, architecture, protocols, file systems and operating systems
• Fluency in Python and Cloud Computing

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, or another STEM discipline
• 10+ years of experience working with Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Experience in the cybersecurity domain
• Demonstrated servant leadership
• Proven track record of building high-performing teams
• Proven ability to convert innovative ideas into impactful AI/ML solutions

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy 

The salary range for this role is $106,800 to $194,200 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.