We are looking for Software Engineers to join a motivated and dynamic team dedicated to solving the problems of health care with the best that technology can offer.  

Primary Responsibilities: 

• 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. 

• 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: 

• 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

We built an entire organisation around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.SM

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, colour, 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.