Senior Principal AI/ML Product Engineer (Full Stack)

UnitedHealth Group

Boston, MA, United States of America • 10m ago • On-site

Senior

On-site

184,600 - 316,500 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Sr Principal AI/ML Product Engineer (Full Stack)
  • Focus: Hands-on end-to-end AI-enabled product engineering, including integrations and AI agents

Description

Build, test, deploy, evaluate, and operate production AI-enabled products end to end—from backend services and data pipelines to the interfaces care teams and patients use. Own deployment practices (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, environments, safe release practices), EHR integrations (FHIR/HL7 and vendor APIs), and AI agents/LLM features (prompt/tool design, retrieval, guardrails). Set engineering standards as a senior individual contributor: ship reliably, define “done” with evidence, and document architecture and decisions so others can run what you build.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and deploy production software end to end
  • Own cloud deployment practices (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, environments, release practices safe for patient care)
  • Build EHR and care-system integrations including Epic, athenahealth, eClinicalWorks, and home care platforms using FHIR, HL7, and vendor APIs
  • Build AI agents and LLM features across channels such as SMS and voice; implement prompt/tool design, retrieval, and guardrails
  • Prototype quickly against real systems, then take working prototypes to production
  • Build shared foundations with other engineering teams (integrations, deployment pipeline, evaluation harness)
  • Embed evaluation into the product lifecycle: automated evaluations, behavior tests, and monitoring for drift
  • Operate what you ship: instrumentation, alerting, incident response, and continuous improvement after launch
  • Define “done” as proven with evidence; report what did not work promptly
  • Partner with stakeholders (technology, data, security, legal, privacy, compliance, care teams) to deliver responsible, secure, enterprise-ready products
  • Protect patient data by design using data minimization, access control, and audit
  • Write documentation, tests, and runbooks so other teams can run the system without you
  • Set engineering practices (code review, AI-assisted development, evaluation standards)
  • Decide which technical decisions belong to a single market vs. the enterprise platform
  • Capture weekly learnings and turn them into decisions
  • Raise AI fluency of market teams via shared templates, evaluation bars, and supported ways to ship safely
  • Own technical architecture and expensive-to-reverse decisions; document them

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Incentive and recognition programs
  • Equity stock purchase
  • 401(k) contribution
  • Salary range: $184,600–$316,500 annually (based on factors including location, education, work experience, and certifications); benefits subject to eligibility

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of professional software engineering experience shipping and operating production systems
  • Healthcare industry and/or large complex matrixed organization experience
  • Full-stack experience across backend services, APIs, data stores, plus enough front-end or mobile to ship complete products
  • Experience building and shipping LLM applications or agents to real users, including evaluation approach
  • Ability to use AI coding/agent tools daily; built and ran an agent/automation/LLM tool
  • Solid testing and operational discipline: automated tests, CI, observability, and on-call ownership
  • Experience with owned cloud infrastructure and deployment: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and enterprise security controls
  • Ability to work at both enterprise and single-market levels and determine where decisions belong
  • Clear technical writing skills for design decisions and findings
  • Working proficiency in GitHub, AI coding/agent tools, cloud platforms, and infrastructure as code
  • Senior hands-on individual contributor with end-to-end ownership
  • Technical ownership experience for systems/architectures built by others

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • Healthcare data integration experience (FHIR, HL7, SMART on FHIR, or Epic/athenahealth/eClinicalWorks APIs)
  • Experience with HIPAA-regulated systems handling protected health information
  • Experience with LLM evaluation frameworks, including building evaluation sets with domain experts
  • Production experience with voice or SMS agents
  • Experience taking AI capabilities through enterprise governance/review in healthcare
  • Experience on small early-stage teams where engineers owned the whole stack

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