Sr AI/ML Engineer - Remote Nationwide or Hybrid in MN/DC

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Come build the AI foundation behind SGS, a modern platform where multi-agent systems can reason, plan, and safely connect to enterprise tools to turn conversations, operational signals, and network patterns into action. In this role, you will own the architecture for the capabilities customers feel every day, including real-time voice translation, voice-based assessments, and call quality audits that help teams respond faster and follow the right procedures. You will also advance our Virtual Investigator to accelerate intake, surface risk early, and turn complex investigative questions into clear, explainable answers.

On the fraud side, you will combine real-time ML, graph analytics, and explainable AI to detect emerging fraud, waste, and abuse across claims, enrollment, provider, and encounter data; uncover collusive networks and billing anomalies; and translate those signals into defensible investigative leads, preventive controls, and KPI visibility leaders can use immediately. You will set the technical direction for orchestration and governance on Azure, raise engineering standards across product lines, and mentor a globally distributed team that ships to production. If you want deep ownership, high-stakes impact, and the chance to define how agentic AI operates at scale in a highly regulated healthcare environment, you will thrive here.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in...