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Senior AI or ML Engineer

Optum

Gurugram

10+ years

1 day 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 w

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