Senior AI Or ML Engineer

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Senior AI or ML Engineer

Optum

Gurugram

10+ years

2 days ago

$71.1K–81.9K/yr

Full-time

Onsite

Skills Required

LLM

RAG

Gen AI

Hugging Face

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Embeddings

Fine-tuning

LLMOps

Transformers

AI/ML

Machine Learning

NLP

Deep Learning

Python

Description

Optum is hiring a hands-on technical leader to design, build, and productionize AI/ML and GenAI solutions for healthcare operations and patient outcomes. The role owns end-to-end delivery, mentors a small team, and partners across product, data engineering, and clinical/operations stakeholders.

Company: Optum

Role: hands-on technical leader

Experience

• 10+ years of professional experience in software/ML engineering
• 3+ years leading projects or teams
  
  

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, or related field
• MS/PhD preferred or equivalent experience
  
  

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of ML/GenAI solutions at production scale
• Build robust data and feature pipelines over large clinical and claims datasets
• Write efficient, well-tested Python and SQL
• Develop and deploy LLM capabilities including prompt design, fine-tuning, RAG pipelines, vector indexing, and evaluation with guardrails
• Establish MLOps and LLMOps best practices including CI/CD, model registry, experiment tracking, monitoring, drift detection, A/B testing, and cost/performance optimization
• Ensure data privacy, compliance, model governance, and Responsible AI
• Translate business problems into technical roadmaps
• Communicate trade-offs and results to executives and non-technical partners
• Mentor engineers and set engineering standards
• Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams to move AI advancements into production-ready capabilities
• Embed fairness, transparency, and accountability throughout the model development lifecycle
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Comply with company policies, procedures, directives, and possible changes to work location, teams, shifts, flexibility benefits, or work arrangements
  
  

Nice To Have

• Familiarity with Hugging Face
• Familiarity with LangChain
• Familiarity with LlamaIndex
• Cloud proficiency in AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Exposure to CI/CD and IaC with Terraform
  
  

Other:

• Culture guided by inclusion
• Talented peers
• Comprehensive benefits
• Career development opportunities
• Mission to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone
• Focus on advancing health optimization on a global scale
• Enterprise commitment to equitable care and reducing health disparities
• Commitment to mitigating environmental impact
  
  

More Skills

classification, forecasting, pandas, NumPy, SQL, prompt design, vector indexing, evaluation, guardrails, MLOps, CI/CD, model registry, experiment tracking, monitoring, drift detection, A/B testing, cost/performance optimization, HIPAA, PHI handling, access controls, auditability, model governance, Responsible AI, statistics, hypothesis testing, experimental design, feature engineering, supervised methods, unsupervised methods, PyTorch, TensorFlow, pytest, Git, Spark, Dask, Airflow, Prefect, AWS, Azure, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

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