Build and refine AI-enabled solutions such as agents, copilots, automations, retrieval experiences, workflows, and integrations. Translate business requirements into prototypes and production-ready components, contributing to prompt design, orchestration, evaluation, testing, monitoring, and responsible AI controls. Collaborate with business and technical partners, demonstrate solutions, incorporate feedback, and create reusable implementation guidance. Apply emerging AI capabilities to finance-related problems in a regulated healthcare environment.
Requisition Number: 2392178
At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together
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:
You'll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $145,500 - $249,500 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
At UnitedHealthcare, we're simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together
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:
- Build and refine AI-enabled solutions, including agents, copilots, automations, workflows, retrieval experiences, and integrations
- Work directly with business subject matter experts to understand workflows, clarify needs, and test whether solutions address the right problem
- Translate product requirements and solution designs into working prototypes and production-capable components
- Contribute to prompt design, context and retrieval strategies, tool use, orchestration, evaluation, and human-in-the-loop controls
- Use code, low-code platforms, APIs, analytics tools, and enterprise AI technologies as appropriate to the problem
- Partner with architects, engineers, data scientists, platform teams, and transformation leads to implement reliable and usable solutions
- Develop tests, evaluation cases, documentation, monitoring requirements, and other artifacts needed to support responsible implementation
- Demonstrate solutions to users and leaders, incorporate feedback quickly, and support workflow adoption
- Convert successful work into reusable components, templates, implementation guides, and playbooks
- Continuously evaluate emerging AI capabilities and apply useful advances to current business problems
You'll 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of experience in technology, analytics, automation, data science, software development, product development, consulting, or a related field
- Hands-on experience developing AI-enabled, analytics, automation, data, or software solutions using code, low-code platforms, or comparable development tools
- Experience translating business or product requirements into working solutions or technical deliverables
- Experience collaborating with business and technical partners in a cross-functional environment
- Experience testing, troubleshooting, documenting, and improving solutions based on user feedback or performance results
- Experience communicating technical concepts and implementation considerations to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, finance, analytics, or another regulated environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Product Development, Product Management Lifecycle, and/or AI Development Lifecycle
- Experience with generative AI, large language models, agentic AI, orchestration, copilots, or intelligent automation
- Experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, context engineering, tool integration, or AI evaluation
- Experience with Copilot Studio, Azure AI, Semantic Kernel, LangGraph, or comparable AI development frameworks
- Experience with APIs, cloud services, Databricks, Snowflake, or modern enterprise data platforms
- Experience with user-centered product development, workflow design, or rapid prototyping
- Familiarity with machine learning methods and when to partner with data scientists on predictive solutions
- Proficiency with Python, JavaScript, SQL, or another programming language
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $145,500 - $249,500 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.
Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.
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.
UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.
UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
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