| Description | Optum is a global organization that delivers care aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care pharmacy benefits data and resources they need to feel their best. Here you will find talented peers comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum Insight partners with payers providers governments and life sciences companies to simplify and enhance clinical administrative and financial processes through software-enabled services and analytics while advancing value-based care. Our differentiated products technology insights clinical expertise and analytics support the entire health system — ultimately delivering better experiences for consumers. Optum Insight Technology and Engineering is a critical function in Optum Insight driving the innovation and value we provide our customers and partners. This team is focused on products solutions platform/enabling capability development product development lifecycle engineering excellence and connectivity to Optum Technology. You’ll be a part of our AI Data Engineering team. We often deliver the entire AI solution from healthcare data integration AI model deployment processing results and analytics to the applications used for reviewing clinical data and AI results. Our projects often encompass leveraging and building cutting edge Generative AI technologies from scratch. We have the data and resources to make an impact on a scale. When our solutions are deployed they process millions of clinical data elements and benefit millions of patients. We are a globally distributed and diverse team with the shared passion to improve patient outcomes improve healthcare operations and streamline payments. We pay attention to the details to make sure we deliver quality the first time. You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. Primary Responsibilities: Design and implement automated test suites for AI/ML workflows that enables Optum to derive information from patient data in a scalable reliable and cost-effective manner using AI Analyze clinical data and determine the best designs on how to verify the correct processing of this data Perform functional regression integration and system testing to validate software quality Identify create and track reproducible defects using bug-tracking tools collaborating with developers for resolution Conduct performance and load testing to identify bottlenecks and measure throughput Integrate automated tests to our AWS and GCP accounts to achieve continuous integration (CI/CD) As an advocate for product quality ensure that team members adopt agile SCRUM methodologies perform unit tests code reviews Review and contribute to engineering specifications to ensure that each feature/user story can be tested in an automated fashion Write integration test plans with end-end test automation as a goal Mentoring a couple of mode Junior engineers who may write test cases You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. Required Qualifications: Master’s degree in computer science Engineering or a related technical field 4+ years of work experience in AI/ML engineering with solid proficiency in Python programming 2+ years of experience as an SDET using test automation tools like Selenium Cypress or similar tools Experience in at least one project using API testing tools like Selenium Pytest Postman or similar Delivered at least one product hosted on a cloud platform (AWS GCP or Azure) Preferred Qualifications: AWS experience such as RDS ALB Redis Cache Secret Manager EC2 IAM Experience in deploying generative AI systems (LLMs Prompts Agentic systems) Experience with Rally Experience integrating with healthcare data systems and working with clinical data formats Solid communication and collaboration skills with the ability to thrive in fast-paced and ambiguous environments Solid analytical skills and ability to debug issues in complex systems Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation GitHub actions Azure DevOps) All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets education work experience certifications etc. In addition to your salary we offer benefits such as a comprehensive benefits package incentive and recognition programs equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $89900 to $160600 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable. Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. At UnitedHealth Group our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race gender sexuality age location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today however there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission. UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race national origin religion age color sex sexual orientation gender identity disability or protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local state or federal laws rules or regulations. UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. 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