Senior AI/ML Engineer - Data Science

Hello Everyone,

Optum

Description - External

Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Skills: Python, NLP, LLMs, APIs

Experience: 7 - 11 yrs

Notice Period: Immediate to 45 days

Location: Hyderabad

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead the technology as a senior member of the software engineer team, as part of an Agile scrum team assigned to work on the project
• Designs, codes, tests, debug, and documents software, and enhance existing components to ensure that software meets business needs
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Provide hands-on leadership, coaching, mentoring, and software engineering best practices to junior software engineers
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Estimate engineering work effort for engineering team and effectively identify and prioritize the high impact tasks
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Drive a quality mindset within the team

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience in Python using common data science libraries such as scikit-learn and Databricks
• 3+ years of experience applying NLP (transformers, GPT, etc.) in a production setting using large amounts of data
• 2+ years of experience applying LLMs (RAG, vector DB, embeddings) to solve real world problems
• Experience applying data science techniques in a commercial enterprise, including supervised, unsupervised learning, NLP, time-series forecasting and other statistical analyses
• Experience building APIs for the models
• Proven solid written & verbal communication skills; including the ability to present detailed analyses to a broad audience
• Proven organized self-starter, with drive and commitment; able to work with little supervision
• Proven solid analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills

arshad_mohammad@optum.com

Thanks and Regards,

Arshad Ayub - Talent Scout

Optum

arshad_mohammad@optum.com