Senior AI/ML Engineer - 2349738

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Senior AI/ML Engineer - 2349738

EMPLOYER: Optum Services Inc.

JOB TITLE: Senior AI/ML Engineer

LOCATION: 1 Optum Circle, Eden Prairie, MN 55344 (Telecommuting available from anywhere in the U.S.)

DUTIES: Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs such as health care documentation system; design, develop, and implement systems that derive information from patient data in a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective manner; analyze clinical data and determine the best designs on how to process the data; ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code; build systems designed to allow customers to effectively ingest and store patient-related data allowing data scientists and engineers to access this data with ease; and engage with customers to develop at least one Healthcare AI product, from ideation to product release. Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S.

REQUIREMENTS: Employer will accept a Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field and 36 months of experience in the job offered or a computer-related occupation.
Experience must include:

• Applied AI/ML engineering;
• Develop and deploy machine learning and large language model (LLM) solutions, including integrating real-time inference pipelines using AWS SageMaker;
• Design automated evaluation workflows, supporting ML model refinement;
• Design and managing distributed computing environments;
• Build scalable systems using AWS technologies such as Lambda, S3, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, EC2, CloudWatch, or Batch to support large-scale data ingestion, processing, and AI workloads;
• Design and develop AI applications in the healthcare domain including payer, provider, or health records;
• Use modern programming languages such as Python or Java;
• Manage CI/CD workflows and infrastructure provisioning using tools such as AWS Cloud Formation, GitHub Actions, and Artifactory;
• Databases includi...