About the Role
Title: Senior AI/ML Engineer – Remote
Location: Bellevue WA US
Full Time
Youll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing models and methods that extend and improve LLM capabilities and reliability
- Research, design and implement scalable machine learning models for real-time processing
- Developing new solutions and science best practices in Responsible AI
- Developing our research and innovation agenda
- Defining the strategies, priorities, and metrics for technical progress in Deep Learning, RAG and LLMs
- Collaborating with the Optum AI team and fellow scientist and engineers
- Driving adoption of new science and best practices among service teams
Required Qualifications:
- Master degree in computer science, Machine Learning, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline
- 5+ years of experience using ML to solve problems in natural language processing (NLP), computer vision (CV), multimodal RT processing, and/or other AI domains
- 3+ years of DL frameworks such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
- 3+ years of developing machine learning applications
- 3+ years of experience in developing Responsible AI metrics, best practices, and/or solutions
- 3+ years of solid ML and RL research and developing experience
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ph.D. in Machine Learning with focus on NLP and/or GenAI
- Proven solid technical and scientific knowledge about generative AI
- Experience with Advanced Deep Learning, applied math and statistics
- Experience fine-tuning LLMs and/or improving pre-train LLMs performance