Lead AI or ML Engineer
Optum is seeking a technical lead to design and build AI/ML and GenAI solutions for healthcare operations. The role involves end-to-end delivery of models and pipelines, mentoring a small team, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Candidates must have deep experience in Python, LLMs, RAG, and cloud-based data engineering at scale. The position emphasizes model governance and privacy within a complex clinical data environment.
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Experience
10+ years
Function
Engineering
Work mode
Onsite, India
Company
Tier 2
What you will work on
Optum is seeking a technical lead to design and build AI/ML and GenAI solutions for healthcare operations. The role involves end-to-end delivery of models and pipelines, mentoring a small team, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Candidates must have deep experience in Python, LLMs, RAG, and cloud-based data engineering at scale. The position emphasizes model governance and privacy within a complex clinical data environment.
TAL's take
Solid role at a large-scale healthcare organization with clear technical leadership responsibilities and a comprehensive tech stack.
The JD is very clear regarding technical stack, domain-specific requirements, and expected leadership responsibilities.
Salaries at Optum
21.9 LPA average
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Must haves
- 10+ years professional experience in software/ML engineering
- 3+ years leading projects or teams
- Hands-on GenAI experience: LLMs, embeddings, RAG, fine-tuning
- Deep learning expertise (PyTorch or TensorFlow)
- Expert Python and pandas stack
- Solid data engineering skills with SQL and Spark/Dask
- Cloud proficiency with AWS/Azure/GCP and Kubernetes
Tools and skills
Nice to have: databricks, snowflake, bigquery, kafka, mlflow, sagemaker, faiss, pinecone, pgvector, neo4j, scala, java, go.
About the company
Large, established healthcare entity with significant engineering operations, though not a top-tier big-tech consumer brand.
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