Senior Principal AI/ML Engineer

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. Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As the Senior Principal AI/ML Engineer for GTS, you will drive the architectural vision, technical design, and hands-on delivery of scalable, resilient, and secure software and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) solutions that support healthcare applications and workflows. Combining deep software engineering expertise with applied AI/ML engineering, you will build cloud-native services, reusable components, and robust application programming interfaces (APIs) alongside machine learning models, generative AI solutions, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI agents that enable workflow automation and decision-making.

You will advance the adoption of AI-powered development tools and cloud AI services, establish reusable engineering patterns, and develop automated pipelines for model evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Your solutions will meet security, reliability, scalability, and responsible AI expectations. You will own complex…