Hyderabad · On-site

Associate AI/ML Engineer

Full-timePosted 8 Nov

Salary: Not disclosed
Experience: 3–6 years
Eligible batches: 2020 – 2023
Location: HyderabadOn-site

About the role

UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division is looking for an Associate AI/ML Engineer to help build next‑generation healthcare solutions. Based in Hyderabad, the role focuses on designing, developing and deploying generative‑AI, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) and agentic workflows that improve clinical and business outcomes. You will work with modern cloud platforms, data pipelines and secure micro‑services to deliver production‑grade AI applications.

Responsibilities

Architect and implement conversational‑search AI systems for sales content.
Create data‑ingestion quality gates using pattern analysis and AI techniques.
Debug, evaluate and continuously improve conversational AI models for accuracy and latency.
Build and optimise both batch and real‑time streaming pipelines with Spark, Scala and Python on Azure Databricks and Snowflake.
Integrate event‑streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and Azure Event Hubs for low‑latency inference and vector store updates.
Expose model outputs via secure REST APIs and connect them to Power BI dashboards.
Apply responsible AI, security and privacy best practices throughout development.

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Eligibility

Minimum three years of software engineering experience, including hands‑on work with AI/GenAI or LLM‑based applications.
Proven ability to design and operate batch and streaming data pipelines.
Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure Databricks, Snowflake) and event‑streaming frameworks.
Strong understanding of RAG components, prompt engineering and agentic patterns.
Familiarity with REST APIs, micro‑services, Git, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation.