Senior Data Scientist

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

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Growing together. Optum's Applied AI team is seeking a detail-oriented, innovative, and proactive Senior Data Scientist with 3-5 years of hands-on industry experience in machine learning (ML) and natural language processing (NLP). In this role, you will help design, develop, and maintain document intelligence platforms that power multiple product streams across the organization

As a Senior Data Scientist, you will collaborate closely with data engineers, domain experts, and fellow data scientists to unlock large-scale data capabilities. You will work with both structured and unstructured clinical datasets, applying advanced algorithms and state-of-the-art modeling techniques to build, optimize, and deploy scalable ML/NLP solutions in production environments. Your contributions will directly support the creation of high-impact AI solutions that improve healthcare operations and outcomes, enabling smarter insights from complex clinical documentation

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of healthcare and cutting-edge AI, shaping the future of intelligent document processing at scale. Primary Responsibilities: Design, develop, and deploy advanced AI solutions for healthcare, including multi-modal document understanding modules, large language models (LLMs) for clinical reasoning, vision-language models (VLMs), and large-scale computer vision/NLP systems (e.g., handwriting recognition, for

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