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Principal AI/ML Engineer

HyderabadFull-time10–18 yrsPosted 3 days ago

Leadership data science role at UnitedHealth Group (Optum) in Hyderabad. Needs 10+ years and a B.Sc, B.Tech or B.E..

About the role

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.

What you'll do

  • Design, code, test, debug, document and maintain the services that make up the AI platform and agent runtime
  • Design the public surface of the platform - APIs, SDKs, client libraries, schemas and versioning strategy - so that internal teams
  • Build the Capability Gateway: implement Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tool interfaces with typed contracts, authentication and authorization
  • Build and operate the agent harness and runtime: orchestration and tool-calling execution, state and session management, retrieval paths, concurrency
  • Establish engineering standards, methods and tooling for the portfolio: coding standards, code review practice, branching and release strategy, CI/CD pipelines

What you need

  • Machine learning
  • Python
  • Databricks
  • LLMs
  • Spark
  • Kafka

Good to have

  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • C++
  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • Scala

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