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Lead AI/ML Engineer

HyderabadFull-time10–18 yrsPosted 6 days ago

Leadership data science role at UnitedHealth Group (Optum) in Hyderabad. Needs 10+ years and a CA.

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced and hands-on Principal Software Engineer (IC Role) to design, build, and scale enterprise-grade, AI-powered platforms and applications. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, modern cloud-native architectures, and GenAI/LLM ecosystems, with a solid emphasis on hands-on engineering and end-to-end ownership of complex systems.

What you'll do

  • Technical Leadership & Delivery
  • Design and implement scalable, distributed enterprise applications
  • Drive end-to-end delivery of AI-powered solutions leveraging LLM ecosystems
  • Embeddings and semantic search
  • Develop, test, and deploy production-grade services and platforms

What you need

  • Machine learning
  • Python
  • LLMs
  • NLP
  • System design
  • MongoDB

Good to have

  • PostgreSQL
  • GCP
  • CI/CD
  • Microservices
  • Go
  • Azure

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