UnitedHealth Group
Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team. We are AI/ML scientists and engineers with deep expertise in AI/ML engineering for health care. We develop AI/ML solutions for the highest impact opportunities across UnitedHealth Group businesses.
Company: UnitedHealth Group
Role: Senior AI/ML Applied Scientist - Remote
Location: Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Remote (U.S. only)
Role Focus: • Develop novel AI approaches for healthcare using both structured and unstructured data • Build and test deep learning and traditional ML models in distributed computing environments • Design and plan experiments, conduct statistical analysis and create data visualizations • Communicate findings with business stakeholders and collaborate to develop solutions that meet customer needs • Collaborate with the Responsible Use of AI (RUAI) team to ensure that the delivered solutions are compliant with company policies and standards • Develop code and model documentation, patents and publications in scientific conferences and journals • Collaborate with engineering teams to develop robust data pipelines of MLOps procedures for new solutions • Stay up to date with latest technologies and literature
classical ML methods, MLOps
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