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Lead AI/ML Engineer

Optum

Location
Nationwide · Eden Prairie, MN · Washington D.C.
Workplace
Remote
Employment
Full Time
Salary
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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and implement enterprise-scale machine learning systems and artificial intelligence solutions
  • Design and implement end-to-end MLOps pipelines
  • Evaluate emerging AI/ML trends, frameworks, and methodologies
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into AI capabilities
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to engineers
  • Troubleshoot, optimize, and maintain deployed models and pipelines
  • Use enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related quantitative field
  • 10+ years of experience in Software Development industry
  • 2+ years of AI/ML engineering experience
  • Proven track record of designing, building, and deploying ML models in a production environment
  • 2+ years of experience with Python and core ML libraries
  • 2+ years of experience building and automating end-to-end MLOps pipelines
  • Experience with cloud platform environments (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform)
  • Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Solid knowledge of software engineering best practices
  • Experience with version control (Git)
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with unit testing

Preferred

  • Experience with Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) frameworks
  • Experience with distributed computing frameworks (Spark, Ray)
  • Experience with high-performance computing
  • Experience working in the healthcare sector, specifically in clinical or behavioral health technology domains
  • Solid understanding of data engineering principles
  • Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases (SQL, NoSQL, Vector databases)
  • Proven excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to explain complex technical AI/ML concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Skills

  • Python
  • MLflow
  • Kubeflow
  • Airflow
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Git
  • Generative AI
  • LLMs
  • Spark
  • Ray
  • SQL
  • NoSQL
  • Vector databases

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