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VP, Engineering – AI Platform & Operations

Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Up to $337,100/ year
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Data Engineering Manager Engineering Manager Head Of Engineering Machine Learning Engineer
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VP, Engineering – AI Platform & Operations

Optum
Eden Prairie, MN, USA
Up to $337,100/ year
Artificial Intelligence Engineer Data Engineering Manager Engineering Manager Head Of Engineering Machine Learning Engineer
Optum
Actively hiring

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Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

 

 

We are seeking a visionary and execution-driven Vice President to lead our enterprise AI/ML platform strategy through the AI Platform and Operations team. This leader will be responsible for defining and delivering a scalable, secure, and responsible AI infrastructure that supports development and deployment across the organization. The role requires deep technical expertise, solid cross-functional leadership, and a passion for building high-impact platforms that power real-world AI solutions. The platform is architected for extensibility, enabling future support for broader enterprise data and intelligence ecosystems.

 

This position follows a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

Strategic Platform Leadership

  • Define and evolve the AI Platform vision to support enterprise-wide AI/ML initiatives
  • Align platform capabilities with business priorities, ensuring it serves as the foundation for internal and external AI solutions
  • Drive enterprise-wide adoption via frictionless developer experience, enablement programs, documentation, and communities of practice
  • Define the reference architecture for AI/ML and GenAI (training, fine tuning, retrieval, eval, deployment, monitoring) with clear guardrails for teams to build on top

Engineering & Execution Oversight

  • Lead the design and delivery of a multi-tenant, multi-cloud AI/ML platform: feature store, vector/search, model registry, orchestration, training at scale, inference gateways, evaluation tooling, prompt/guardrail services, and golden paths/templates
  • Define and stand up the MLOps & LLMOps infrastructure and operational processes required to scale AI across the enterprise
  • Ensure platform scalability, reliability, and compliance with responsible AI standards
  • Establish product support capabilities and direction to ensure sustained platform adoption and user success

Organizational Leadership

  • Lead a growing global team of 100+ AI/ML and software engineers, fostering a high-performance culture
  • Build and scale a world-class organization with deep expertise in AI infrastructure and platform engineering
  • Promote innovation, accountability, and collaboration across distributed teams
  • Foster a high performance, inclusive culture with clear expectations, coaching, career paths, and succession planning

Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Partner with product, data, security, finance and compliance teams to ensure seamless integration of the AI Platform into the broader technology ecosystem
  • Represent the platform in executive forums and strategic planning discussions
  • Serve as a thought leader on AI infrastructure and platform strategy

 

 

 

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: 

 

 

  • 15+ years of experience in engineering or platform leadership, with some direct experience working on AI/ML infrastructure
  • Proven track record of building and scaling enterprise-grade platforms
  • Deep expertise in MLOps/LLMOps, orchestration, cloud-native architecture, and AI governance
  • Proven cross functional leadership and executive communication; ability to influence at Board/executive level
  • Track record of scaling platforms (multi tenant, multi region) with solid SLOs and cost discipline (FinOps)
  • Excellent communication and executive presence

 

 

Preferred Qualifications:

 

 

  • Experience in commercializing AI platforms or enabling external client delivery
  • Familiarity with regulatory and ethical considerations in AI deployment
  • Ability to operate at both strategic and tactical levels

 

 

 

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 $196,600 to $337,100 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

 

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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