Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy perks, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

This role applies knowledge of experimental methodologies, statistics, optimization, probability theory, and machine learning to build tools and perform statistical analysis, using both general-purpose software and statistical languages. A successful AI/ML engineer must be able to code and develop software that deploys ML models and algorithms in production, while working with large-scale computing frameworks and data analysis systems.



Employees in this role should be able to communicate and present complex analytics results and concepts to leadership and internal stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into AI-driven solutions and deploy them in production environments
Perform end-to-end training and fine-tuning of classical machine learning models, deep learning models, Large
Language Models (LLMs), including both open-source (e.g., Qwen, LLaMA, Mistral) and closed-source (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic) ecosystems
Design, train, and optimize semantic and dense vector embeddings for document understanding, search, and retrieval
Develop semantic retrieval systems with advanced document segmentation and indexing strategies
Architect and implement GraphRAG pipelines, including knowledge graph representation and retrieval for enhanced contextual grounding
Scientist Responsibilities:
Collaborate with research, engineering, an

📌 Associate AI/ML Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Hyderabad