Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Full-time, Days

The Senior Machine Learning Engineer reflects the mission vision and values of NM adheres to the organizations Code of Ethics and Corporate Compliance Program and complies with all relevant policies procedures guidelines and all other regulatory and accreditation standards.

Northwestern Medicine Information Services drives innovative highvalue solutions to transform health care.   

We are committed to supporting the relentless pursuit of better medicine by providing exceptional service to our patients and guests as well as internal clients across the organization. To ensure excellence our team goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that our systems work together seamlessly.  

Northwestern Medicine understands that technology plays an integral role in shaping the future of health care. Information Services strategically supports the organization by:   

• Enabling digital solutions by leveraging capabilities such as AI automation and rollout of advanced cyber controls that support digital transformation strategies
• Implementing advanced technologies in clinical and administrative areas
• Further develop end user support model to help enhance modern infrastructure

Responsibilities:

• This role is dedicated to the Canning Thoracic Institute.
• As a leader of the Machine Learning Engineering team you will work with technical and nontechnical stakeholders to design build and manage the infrastructure platforms and tools that power advanced technology solutions to enhance medical training improve quality of care and enable timely interventions for pulmonary and thoracic patients.

Qualifications :

Required:

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
• At least 5 years of experience developing scaling or deploying machine learning models
• Professional experience with AWS Azure or GCP
• Ability to drive software engineering best practices and share learnings about theoretical and technical developments in ML engineering with team members
• Experience providing technical expertise in the design and development of endtoend technical solutions
• Demonstrable experience leading the development of reusable common frameworks models or components that can be leveraged to solve common ML problems
• Basic understanding of computer architecture and how it affects software performance
• Demonstrable experience with version control in a team environment
• Proficiency in SQL Python and a deep learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow PyTorch)
• Demonstrable professional experience with CI/CD and RESTful APIs
• Basic understanding of MLOps and associated tools (e.g. MLflow)
• Handson experience with containerization (Docker preferred)
• A commitment to writing readable tested and welldocumented code
• Deep understanding of fundamental computer science concepts including data structures algorithms automated testing and objectoriented programming
• Demonstrable experience working independently and managing multiple priorities
• Comfortable communicating clearly and succinctly with audiences of varying technical backgrounds
• Motivated by a curiosity for understanding how complex systems work
• Ability to teach and mentor others

Preferred:

• PhD in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
• Health care data integration experience (PHI/HIPAA HL7 FHIR)
• Familiarity with FDA regulation for software as a medical device
• Production experience with Databricks Spark and/or Kubernetes
• Knowledge of audio processing workflows and models
• Knowledge of computer vision workflows and models
• Familiarity with asynchronous programming patterns
• Familiarity with GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Handson experience with Terraform
• Experience with C C C# or Go
• Healthcare experience
• Epic experience

Additional Information :

Northwestern Medicine is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of age sex race color religion national origin gender identity veteran status disability sexual orientation or any other protected status.

If we offer you a job we will perform a background check that includes a review of any criminal convictions. A conviction does not disqualify you from employment at Northwestern Medicine. We consider this on a casebycase basis and follow all state and federal guidelines.

Benefits

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