TECHNICAL LEAD L1(CONTRACT)

Job Title: TECHNICAL LEAD L1(CONTRACT)

City: Chicago

State/Province: Illinois

Posting Start Date: 8/7/26

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Role : Agentic AI

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Seeking AI/ML Engineers with 3–7 years of hands-on experience building scalable ML and GenAI solutions. Candidates must have strong healthcare domain exposure (claims, clinical data, provider/payor workflows). Prior Optum/UHG/UHC experience is highly preferred.

Key Responsibilities

AI/ML Engineering

Build and deploy production grade ML, NLP, and LLM/GenAI models.

Implement modern AI architecture patterns: microservices, feature stores, real time/batch inference, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.

Convert functional requirements into scalable AI solutions.

Model Development

Develop and optimize models for claims automation, fraud detection, risk prediction, provider optimization, and document AI.

Ensure models meet performance, reliability, and scalability standards.

Data & Integration

Work with data engineering teams to integrate models with healthcare datasets (claims, EHR, clinical notes, PA/UM workflows).

Ensure PHI/PII safe, compliant pipelines.

MLOps / Platform

Implement CI/CD for ML/LLM workloads using MLflow, Vertex, SageMaker, Databricks, Airflow, Argo, and Kubernetes.

Apply LLM Ops foundations for RAG and GenAI use cases.

Collaboration & Delivery

Work cross functionally with product, cloud engineering, SMEs, and clinical teams.

Participate in Agile processes and document reusable patterns and decisions.

Required Skills

3–7 years AI/ML engineering experience.

Strong skills in Python (PyTorch/TensorFlow), NLP/LLMs/transformers, GenAI tooling, SQL, and data pipelines.

Experience deploying ML/LLM systems in Azure/AWS/GCP.

Solid understanding of U.S. healthcare data and compliant solution design (HIPAA, RBAC, audit logging).

Experience working in ML Ops / LLM Ops environments.

Mandatory Skills: AI ML Governance Product Engineering .

Experience: 5-8 Years .

The expected compensation for this role ranges from $60,000 to $135,000 .

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

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