Python Job: Software Engineer

Software Engineer – AI

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

About the Role of the Software Engineer:

As a Software Engineer – AI for Optum Technology, you’ll be part of a team responsible to focus on working towards business problems and providing solutions. You will be closely involved in all aspects of product delivery from start to finish. That includes gathering the data, doing data science work & creating a model & getting predictions and working with the entire delivery team from development to production. This role is key to building Optum Advanced technology strategic product solution.

Primary Responsibilities of the Software Engineer:

• Collaborate within a cross-disciplinary team to understand, design, and deliver innovative solutions.


• Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions to a range of audiences.


• Approach highly uncertain and ambiguous environments with curiosity and a positive can-do attitude.


• Ability to design and code solutions starting with broadly defined problems.


• Produce high-quality software deliverables that include unit-test, experiment notebooks, and backend services with code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration and delivery.


• Design and build solutions that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to use


• Ability to navigate and handle large and complex dataset for analysis, transform and modelling preparation.


• Work in an agile environment to deliver high quality software.


• Continuously learn and evolve skills.

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Software Engineer:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, AI/Machine Learning, Statistics, Optimization or related fields at time of application


• Previous work experience in Data Science, Data Engineering, and/or Data Science AI/ML domain.


• Demonstrated experience of Computer Science fundamentals and DevOps practices.


• Fluency in one or more programming language: Python, Scala, Java, C/C++ or other programming languages to demonstrate the results of algorithmic approaches.


• Willingness to get things done, take initiative and challenge existing assumptions and conventions .

Preferred Qualifications of the Software Engineer:

• Advanced Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative discipline.


• Experience with AI, data mining, or information retrieval.


• Experience developing and designing consumer-facing products.


• Prior experience with Cloud AI APIs (GCP, Azure, AWS).


• Healthcare industry experience is a plus.

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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