We are seeking a Senior AI / ML Engineer with solid experience building and operating production‑grade Machine Learning, Generative AI, and Agentic AI systems on Microsoft Azure.

Company: Optum

Role: Senior AI/ML Engineer

Location: Hyderabad, Telangana

Experience:

10+ years overall experience in software engineering, data engineering, or ML engineering
4+ years hands‑on experience in AI/ML engineering and MLOps
10+ years experience

Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Role Focus: • Own the end‑to‑end ML lifecycle, including data ingestion, feature engineering, training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, retraining, and rollback • Design, build, and operate production‑grade ML pipelines using Azure‑native services with solid CI/CD and automation practices • Build scalable data and feature pipelines using Azure Databricks (batch and streaming) • Use Azure Machine Learning and MLflow for experiment tracking, model registry, and governed promotion across Dev/Test/Prod environments • Design and deploy Generative AI solutions using Azure OpenAI, embeddings, vector search, and RAG pipelines • Build Agentic AI workflows with multi‑step reasoning, tool usage, guardrails, observability, reliability, and cost control • Implement monitoring for data drift, model drift, prediction quality, latency, and system health • Ensure security, compliance, lineage, and auditability using RBAC, Azure Key Vault, and secure ML practices

Additional responsibilities:

Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Nice to have:

Familiarity with emerging standards for agent interoperability, such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar approaches

More skills:

Agentic AI, Azure Machine Learning, MLflow, Scikit‑learn, Kubernetes, Helm

Other:

Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Integrity
Compassion
Inclusion
Relationships
Innovation
Performance
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.
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.

Senior AI/ML Engineer

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