Optum (UnitedHealth Group)
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Optum (UnitedHealth Group). Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $203K–$348K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Optum (UnitedHealth Group)
Proof the FDE title has reached the Fortune 5 — a payer-provider deployment seat that pays real money to ship AI into claims and care.
- FDE type
- GTM hybrid
- Travel
- Remote-first
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Public
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want healthcare-scale impact over startup upside
- People fluent in payer/provider operations and messy real-world data
- Those who value a remote seat inside a stable Fortune 5
What they do
Optum is the health-services arm of UnitedHealth Group, the largest healthcare company on earth, spanning payers, providers, pharmacy and data. The FDE sits inside that machine, building AI into the operational workflows — claims, care management, prior authorization — that touch tens of millions of members.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is FDE as consulting-plus-engineering: partner directly with healthcare payers and providers to design, build and scale AI solutions inside their environments. It leans GTM-hybrid — you are as much a delivery partner to internal and external stakeholders as a pure builder, and the constraints are regulatory, not just technical.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $203K–$348K base plus incentive (req 2371905, Eden Prairie, MN, remote-US) — competitive for a non-frontier enterprise, and striking for a healthcare giant rather than a lab. There is no frontier-lab equity here; the draw is cash stability and scale.
Growth signals
The clearest signal is the hire itself: when a 400,000-person Fortune 5 adopts the FDE title, the role has escaped tech. Expect the function to be early and loosely defined inside Optum even as the company around it is enormous and durable.
Analysis updated 2026-09-19
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