Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager, Applied AI
Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager, Applied AI
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$ 233000 - 285000
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Job Description
About Us
At SimplePractice our team is dedicated to improving the health and wellness industry by building a suite of innovative solutions for practitioners and their clients. Our product supports practitioners on their clinical journey to becoming licensed helps them manage their business and practice once theyre up and running and enables new clients to discover and interact with practitioners. Taking a practitioner-first approach in everything we do makes it possible for health and wellness practitioners to devote more time to their clients while they use SimplePractice to start grow and maintain a successful private practice.
The Role
Were seeking a Senior Manager Applied AI to build and lead a high-performing team of senior Machine Learning Engineers focused on empowering clinicians with intelligent reliable and scalable AI-driven product features.
In this role youll build and guide a team of experienced ICs who are building next-generation tools that enhance clinician workflows elevate care quality and drive operational efficiency through machine learning. From experimentation and prototyping to scalable deployment your team touches every part of the ML lifecycle. As a manager your leadership will be critical to scaling our impact aligning technical execution with strategic product priorities and fostering a culture of innovation accountability and technical excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Team & Technical Leaderrship
- Lead mentor and grow a team of senior-level ML engineers working on applied AI in production environments
- Partner with ML Platform team to drive technical roadmap development and execution in alignment with product and business goals
- Ensure high-quality and timely delivery of advanced data analysis prototypes evaluations and productionized ML workflows
- Provide hands-on guidance on LLM workflows evaluation strategies and model lifecycle best practices
- Cross-Functional Strategy & Execution
- Collaborate closely with Product Design Engineering and ML Platform to define scope success metrics and project plans
- Translate complex technical opportunities and risks into clear actionable plans for cross-functional stakeholders
- Act as a key advisor on AI capabilities helping to shape our roadmap for AI-enabled clinician tools
- Innovation & Impact
- Champion a strong experimentation culture grounded in domain understanding user needs and rigorous evaluation
- Encourage novel applications of LLMs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other emerging techniques to drive value
- Advocate for scalable reliable and safe deployment of ML solutions in real-world clinical contexts
- Operational Excellence
- Own team planning capacity management and execution tracking using modern tools
- Collaborate with ML platform DevOps and data engineering partners to ensure reliable infrastructure and monitoring
- Drive adoption of best practices in model versioning prompt tuning performance tracking and incident response
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience & Expertise
- 8 years of experience in machine learning with at least 3 years managing high-performing technical teams
- Proven track record of bringing ML prototypes into production in a fast-paced product-focused environment
- Deep understanding of LLM workflows including prompt engineering evaluation and deployment
- Strong engineering skills with comfort working across the ML/infra stack (Python cloud orchestration tools)
- Strong research skills with high bar for
- Leadership & Communication
- Ability to inspire coach and develop senior engineers while setting a high technical bar
- Strong cross-functional communication skills; capable of translating AI complexity into business value
- Proactive solution-oriented mindset with a bias toward clarity impact and continuous learning
- Tools & Technologies
- Proficiency with Python cloud services (AWS preferred) and ML pipeline orchestration (Outerbounds Argo etc.)
- Familiarity with LLM eval frameworks prompt management tools (e.g. Langfuse) and vector stores
- Experience leading teams focused on LLMs RAG or other advanced ML architectures
- Hands-on experience with ML observability CI/CD Kubernetes or similar technologies
Bonus Points
- Background in clinical or operational healthcare workflows
Base Compensation Range
$233000 - $285000
Base salary is one component of total compensation. Employees may also be eligible for an annual bonus or commission. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay.
The above represents the expected base compensation range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay well consider many factors including but not limited to skills experience qualifications geographic location and other job-related factors.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits program including:
- Medical dental vision life & disability insurance
- 401(k) plan with company match
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) wellbeing days paid holidays and summer Fridays
- Mental health resources
- Paid parental leave & Backup Care
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
