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.
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📌 Director Data Science (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum
📍 Hyderabad