Lead AI/ML Engineer – Remote

Job Category: IT and Tecnology
Job Location: Minnesota United States
Company Name: Optum

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Lead end-to-end ML projects: from problem definition through deployment and monitoring.

  • Build scalable training and inference systems with cost controls and observability.

  • Set standards for experimentation (offline tests, A/B testing, causal insights).

  • Drive MLOps practices: CI/CD pipelines, model registry, automated retraining, drift monitoring.

  • Collaborate with product/design to define ML problems and success metrics.

  • Mentor engineers, review code/design, ensure reliability and documentation.

  • Work with data engineering on feature pipelines and data quality.

  • Communicate tradeoffs/results to both technical and non-technical teams.

  • Optional areas: LLM applications (RAG, fine-tuning), recommendations, anomaly detection, forecasting.

  • Develop and deploy AI solutions via no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms.

Required Qualifications:

  • BS/MS/PhD in CS, Engineering, Statistics, or 4+ years equivalent experience.

  • 7+ years building/operating ML systems in production.

  • 5+ years experience in Azure.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Domain expertise: recommendations, forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization, RL.

  • Strong coding (Python/C#) and software engineering practices.

  • Solid ML/statistics knowledge (supervised learning, feature engineering, evaluation, deep learning/GBMs).

  • Responsible AI practices (GDPR/CCPA, fairness, PII handling).

  • Excellent communication and ability to align stakeholders.

  • Mentorship or tech leadership experience; open-source/patents/publications a plus.

  • Data engineering (SQL, Spark, pipelines).

  • LLMOps (prompt engineering, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation, guardrails).

  • Strong MLOps background (CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, model monitoring).

  • Experimentation expertise (A/B testing, guardrail metrics, causal inference).

Compensation & Benefits

  • Salary range: $110,200 – $188,800/year (based on experience and location).

  • Comprehensive benefits, recognition programs, equity stock purchase, and 401k contribution.

  • Subject to eligibility requirements.

Additional Information

  • Remote employees must follow Telecommuter Policy.

  • Posting will remain live for at least 2 business days (may close early).

  • Drug-free workplace (testing required before employment).

  • Commitment to diversity, equity, and reducing healthcare disparities.

  • EEO employer—no discrimination based on protected characteristics.


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