Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement AI and machine learning strategies across several healthcare domains
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize AI and machine learning initiatives
- Develop and maintain solid relationships with stakeholders, customers, and partners internally and externally
- Represent Consumer Engineering work and teams across Optum global leadership
- Maintain accountability for the integrity of code design, implementation, quality, data, and ongoing maintenance and operations
- Stay hands-on, self-driven, and continuously learn new approaches, languages, and frameworks with significant focus on infusing AI/ML/Generative AI where applicable
- Create technical specifications and write high-quality, scalable, supportable code; review code of other engineers and mentor them to ensure all quality KPIs are met or exceeded
- Demonstrate collaborative skills to work effectively with diverse teams
- Serve as a role model by leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery
- Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery
- Provide leadership and be accountable for the performance of managers and/or senior-level professional staff
- Drive impact at the operational, local business unit, or market level
- 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:
- 6 to 8+ years in AI/ML engineering
- 3+ years hands-on with GenAI stack:
- LLMs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector DBs (FAISS, Pinecone, etc.)
- Agentic workflows (LangChain, AutoGen, orchestration layers)
- Strong coding in Python + Node.js, with ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow)
- Experience with end-to-end ML lifecycle (training, fine-tuning, inference, deployment)
- Deep expertise in cloud-native AI architectures (AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, GCP Vertex AI)
- Hands-on with CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, MLOps pipelines
What we offer
- Market Competitive Pay Levels
- Retirement Plan
- Medical Plan (HMO) from Day 1 of employment
- Dental, Medical, and Optical Reimbursements
- Life and Disability Insurance
- Paid Time-Off Benefits
- Sick Leave Conversion
- Tuition Fee Reimbursement
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Annual Performance Based Merit Increases
- Employee Recognition
- Training and Staff Development
- Employee Referral Program
- Employee Volunteerism Opportunity
- All Mandatory Statutory Benefits
Who we are
Optum is the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare.
As part of a Fortune 5 enterprise, we are improving the health care experience of over 125 million people around the world.
We're a diverse team with operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. This includes our over 14,000 employees in the Philippines.
Elevate your career with a leading health care company while improving lives.
Join us in evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that's dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
