Primary Responsibilities:

Engineering Leadership

Lead multiple AI/ML engineering teams in developing scalable ML models, LLM-based solutions, and intelligent automation capabilities across business domains.
Drive end‑to‑end delivery of AI products, from ideation through productionization, leveraging up-to-date ML Ops practices at scale.
Partner with cross-functional teams to determine applicability of AI to business problems
Mentor data scientists, AI/ML scientists, and engineers to ensure the delivery of the AI/ML projects, and provide guidance on how to best use specific tools or technologies to achieve the desired results
Build and grow a high-performing AI/ML engineering team with roles spanning ML engineers, data engineers, AI architects, and applied scientists.

Technical Leadership

Develop and evolve machine-learning methods by adapting model architectures, learning objectives, and feature representations to healthcare-specific data, constraints, and outcomes.
Establish evaluation frameworks for AI/ML systems beyond accuracy, including reliability, explainability,



safety, and real-world impact, in partnership with clinical and business stakeholders.
Lead failure-mode analysis and iterative method improvement based on model behavior, data drift, and production feedback.
Define and improve GenAI and LLM-based methods, including RAG architecture, retrieval strategies, grounding techniques, prompt optimization, and hallucination mitigation.
Establish approaches for controlling and constraining LLM behavior in regulated healthcare settings, including confidence estimation, escalation strategies, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
Closely collaborate with the Responsible Use of AI (RUAI) team to ensure that the delivered solutions are compliant with the company policies and standards
Implement governance aligned with responsible AI principles and regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, CMS), including automated guardrails and model observability.
Lead value realization efforts,

📌 Director Data Science (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum
📍 Hyderabad