Senior AI/ML Cybersecurity Engineer

UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Join us in building out our security program for artificial intelligence. We are building out a small team to focus solely on AI Security and are looking for the right person to help drive this.

The program includes making sure we have the right policies and processes, and these are updated as the world evolves so quickly. Evaluate tools to help improve our security. Researching changes happening both internally and externally and coordinating with other teams who work in the area of artificial intelligence.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

This role is about managing and coordinating what our proxy and firewall allow and deny for generative and other AI sites. This role will look at log traffic and research what’s happening in the world around us and ensure our blocks accurately reflect the changing and emerging threats. It is also about using our data sources to provide controls and insight into AI usage across the organization.

The successful person in this role will have a combination of technical and analytic skills and curiosity about AI and Generative AI and the emerging areas and how we need to use them as an organization. This person will need to be constantly researching what’s out there, what’s coming, and what’s newly arrived and working with legal and the responsible use of AI team to identify potentially opportunities and threats to our organization

• Understanding in depth the technical and scientific issues related to emerging generative AI offerings
• Identifying ways we can track AI usage across the company using our various kinds of data
• Identifying models we might build to help us
• Maintaining and coordinating the “Allow” and “Deny” lists for our proxy and firewalls for generative AI and other AI sites
• Analyzing our log data of actual traffic to see which proxy is blocking what traffic and provide input into maintaining parity between different systems
• Researching emerging Generative AI offerings and identify new security threats
• Automate some of the manual processes that currently being used
• Partner with other teams such as the responsible use of AI, legal and privacy to ensure

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:

• Master’s degree in computer science, statistics, engineering, mathematics, or another STEM discipline
• 5+ years in analytics, data science, or AI engineering role
• 3+ years of experience with Firewall rule/policy analysis
• 3+ years of experience querying and working with log data
• 3+ years of python experience
• 3+ years of working in a large organization
• Experience with Palo Alto, Zscaler, Broadcom data

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ph.D. in Data Science, Statistics, or Machine Learning or similar discipline
• 3+ years in a security related role
• Proven ability to work with large, complex datasets
• Proven track record of working in a fast-changing environment and finding creative solutions to hard problems
• Proven ability to work across organizations effectively
• Demonstrated attention to detail
• All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

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.