Lead AI/ML Engineer: Hybrid in Minnesota or DC, Remote elsewhere

About this role

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 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. Join us to start Caring. Connecting

Growing together. Come build the AI foundation behind SGS, a modern platform where multi agent systems can reason, plan, and safely connect to enterprise tools to turn conversations, documents, and network signals into action. In this role, you will own the architecture for the capabilities customers feel every day, including real time voice translation, voice based assessments, and call quality audits that help teams respond faster and follow the right procedures

You will also advance Document AI and our Virtual Investigator to accelerate intake, surface risk early, and turn complex investigative questions into clear, explainable answers. On the fraud side, you will combine real time ML with graph analytics to detect emerging hotspots, uncover collusive networks, and stop improper payments before they happen, then translate that intelligence into AI generated insights and KPI visibility leaders can use immediately. You will set the technical direction for orchestration and governance on Azure, raise engineering standards across product lines, and mentor a globally distributed team that ships to production

If you want deep ownership, high stakes impact, and the chance to define how agentic AI operates at scale, you will thrive here. 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

Apply for this role on UnitedHealth Group’s official careers site.