Associate AI/ML Engineer
unitedhealthgroup
Job Description
- Design, develop, and integrate AI-powered applications, services, and automation solutions that improve network, infrastructure, and operational outcomes
- Build and maintain scalable APIs, microservices, AI agents, and intelligent automation capabilities using LLMs, Generative AI, and modern AI frameworks
- Develop and optimize RAG solutions, vector databases, semantic search, and knowledge-grounding capabilities to support operational and business use cases
- Collaborate with Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, Platform Engineering, Product, and Data Science teams to identify, design, and deliver AI-driven solutions
- Integrate AI capabilities with monitoring, observability, ITSM, cloud, and infrastructure management platforms to enhance reliability and operational efficiency
- Evaluate, fine-tune, deploy, monitor, and continuously improve AI/ML models, ensuring performance, quality, scalability, and operational reliability
- Apply Responsible AI principles, security, privacy, governance, and compliance requirements throughout the solution lifecycle
- Lead technical design discussions, contribute to architecture decisions, and mentor engineers on AI-enabled development and engineering best practices
- Drive software engineering excellence through code reviews, testing automation, CI/CD, observability, documentation, and knowledge sharing
- Stay current with emerging AI technologies, industry trends, and best practices, and recommend their adoption where appropriate
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so