UnitedHealth Group
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 benefits, 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.
Company: Optum
Role: Senior AI/ML Engineer
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka
Role Focus: • Lead applied research in LLMs, generative AI, and multimodal models • Evaluate and experiment with state-of-the-art architectures (e.g., Transformers, Diffusion Models, Retrieval-Augmented Generation) • Publish internal whitepapers and contribute to external conferences where applicable • Design and implement scalable AIML pipelines • Collaborate with engineering teams to deploy models into production using MLOps best practices • Evaluate and integrate advanced AIML tools • Work with cloud platforms to ensure scalable and secure model deployment • Architect end-to-end AIML systems • Mentor junior engineers and researchers • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
ML libraries (e.g., scikit-learn, Keras), GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, Vertex AI, Hugging Face Transformers, AWS, Azure, GCP
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