Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dice is a global leader in health care innovation, seeking a Senior Manager AI/ML Engineering to lead a collaborative AI Platform team. This role involves providing strategic and technical leadership for AI platform execution, ensuring secure and scalable delivery of AI services, while managing a high-performing team and driving the development of AI-powered solutions for healthcare challenges.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic and technical leadership for AI platform execution and forward deployment across Payment Integrity and Optum Real, ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable delivery of reusable AI services
- Lead and inspire a high-performing team of AI/ML engineers and senior staff, fostering a culture of trust, ownership, product quality, and consistent execution excellence while setting clear AI development goals within team plans
- Champion AI as a core driver of team success, strategically designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered solutions to address complex clinical and administrative healthcare challenges and deliver measurable business value
- Strategically design and deliver intelligent, agentic workflows and agent-driven applications that review and reason over clinical and administrative data in customer environments
- Drive engineering and operational excellence across the full development lifecycle by applying AI to deployment automation, robust automated testing, continuous integration, and production observability in customer environments
- Leverage and integrate enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline engineering workflows, automate routine developer tasks, and drive continuous operational improvement
- Champion the ethical use of AI across all projects, proactively embedding transparency, fairness, and accountability throughout the entire AI lifecycle of reusable services
- Partner cross-functionally with product managers, customer integration teams, senior stakeholders, and enterprise leaders to represent the engineering vision, accelerate platform reuse, and drive repeatable revenue
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or 4+ additional years of equivalent software engineering experience in lieu of a degree
- 12+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Data Science, or Analytics, with 3+ years dedicated to AI/ML engineering or related fields
- 3+ years of experience directly managing, coaching, and developing engineering teams of 5+ people, including senior engineers
- Demonstrated experience leading and managing AI/ML projects from initial ideation and development through to customer-facing production delivery, deployment, and evaluation
- Technical experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and containerization/orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with DevSecOps, automated CI/CD practices (e.g., Git, Jenkins), and proficiency in Python or other programming languages for data analysis and AI/ML development
- Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Generative AI technologies, including large language models (LLMs like OpenAI, Claude, Gemini), LangChain, AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering, and model fine-tuning
- Experience applying AI to agentic workflows, deployment automation, and production observability (e.g., model monitoring, logging, and performance tracking)
- Experience in establishing and enforcing AI/ML engineering best practices, design standards, and ethical guidelines
- Experience in Payment Integrity, clinical operations, or healthcare claim systems
- Experience managing or working with a mixed team, both onshore and offshore
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
Company Overview
Dice is a job-searching platform for technology professionals. It is a sub-organization of DHI Group. It was founded in 1990, and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.dice.com.