Principal Data Scientist - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Clinical Decision Support (CDS) Engineering team, a unit within the Optum Insight Technology organization, is responsible for building commercial products that help payers and providers with administrative- and clinician-focused CDS solutions. In this role as a Principal Data Scientist, you will lead high-impact AI initiatives characterized by scale and complexity. You will architect robust, secure AI systems, train state-of-the-art transformer and multimodal models, and bridge the gap between AI research and production software engineering. By extracting deep insights from healthcare data and maintaining the highest standards of responsible and ethical AI, you will help shape the next generation of intelligent health solutions.

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 will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end generative AI and machine learning projects that have a high degree of ambiguity, scale, and complexity
• Design robust AI architectures, ensuring that systems are scalable, secure, and efficient; select appropriate technologies, frameworks, and methodologies
• Build machine learning models, perform proof-of-concept experiments, optimize and deploy models to production, and partner with software engineers to productionize ML m