Optum AI/ML Engineering Job Alerts 2026 – Apply Soon!

Qualifications

Required Qualification:

• Experience working with AI/ML

Primary Responsibilities:

• Generative AI & LLM Development
  • Assist in designing and developing GenAI based applications using Large Language Models (LLMs)
  • Implement prompt engineering, prompt chaining, and basic fine tuning techniques under guidance
  • Evaluate LLM outputs for quality, safety, hallucination risks, and performance
• RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
  • Build and maintain RAG pipelines by integrating LLMs with document stores and vector databases
  • Assist in data ingestion, chunking strategies, embedding generation, and retrieval evaluation
  • Work on use cases such as chat with documents, enterprise search, and knowledge assistants
• Agentic AI
  • Contribute to the development of AI agents capable of tool use, multi step reasoning, and workflow orchestration
  • Implement simple autonomous or semi autonomous agents using agent frameworks under supervision
  • Help define agent goals, constraints, and guardrails
• Software Engineering & Integration
  • Develop backend services and APIs (REST / FastAPI) to expose AI capabilities to applications
  • Write clean, testable Python code following software engineering best practices
  • Participate in code reviews, testing, and debugging of AI systems
• Data & Model Operations
  • Assist with data preparation for structured and unstructured datasets
  • Support experimentation, benchmarking, and comparison of GenAI approaches
  • Follow responsible AI practices, including secure handling of sensitive data (PII/PHI)