Manager AI/ML Engineering - LifeScience or Diagnostics

About the role

Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Optum AI is UnitedHealth Group's enterprise AI team.

What you'll do

• Design, develop, and deploy advanced GenAI and NLP solutions to solve complex business and healthcare problems, using state‑of‑the‑art transformer models, LLMs
• Lead research, evaluation, and integration of new LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Anthropic), vector search technologies, prompt‑engineering techniques
• Build and optimize Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems using vector databases (FAISS, Pinecone, Chroma), improving grounding, retrieval accuracy
• Architect and implement agentic AI workflows using frameworks like LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel
• Drive the development of high‑quality NLP pipelines-including tokenization, embeddings, seq‑to‑seq models, evaluation metrics

What you need

• 10–18 yrs of experience
• Machine learning
• SQL
• NLP
• LLMs
• Python
• Deep learning
• B.Tech or B.E. or B.Sc or BCA or PhD

Good to have

• AWS
• R
• Clinical research
• Regulatory affairs
• Lab testing
• GCP