Sr AI ML Engineer - Remote or Hybrid Eden Prairie, MN or Schaumburg, IL

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Join our innovative technology team at Optum Health Financial Technology dedicated to designing, developing, and deploying high-impact, AI-powered solutions across our Care Management and Clinical platforms. In this senior-level role, you will focus on building agentic AI workflows, LLM-based automations, clinical summarizations, and case preparation tools to optimize clinical workflows. You will design and deploy advanced reasoning systems that leverage enterprise AI platforms, prompt engineering patterns, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models. This role offers an exciting opportunity to build scalable, reusable components that integrate human-in-the-loop decision-making directly into platforms that support patient care, financial technology integration, and overall health outcomes.

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 the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy robust AI-powered solutions and agentic AI workflows to address complex clinical and business challenges, with an emphasis on the responsible and ethical use of AI
• Build and implement agentic AI systems that reason over clinical workflows, orchestrate multi-step tasks, interact with APIs and system tools, and integrate human-in-the-loop decision-making fr...