Senior Machine Learning Engineering (Remote)

As one of our Senior Machine Learning Engineers you will lead the design and development of ML applications across our product portfolio with a strong focus on generative AI and large language model (LLM) solutions. You will be a hands-on technical leader providing architecture and shaping coding standards. You will evangelize best practices for software engineering including design development and lifecycle maintenance and will partner with multiple software engineering teams to encourage practices like code reusability shared libraries UX-driven design and a culture of continuous improvement.

You will help guide the transformation of machine learning research domain expertise in the areas of human data into viable prototypes. Your technical leadership will enable our Machine Learning Engineers to build and train new production-grade algorithms that can learn from complex high-dimensional data to uncover patterns from which machine learning models and applications can be developed. Your ability to research current and emerging industry tools techniques and algorithms and share these findings with colleagues will prove invaluable to your teams success.

You will meet frequently with stakeholders product managers engineering managers data scientists and other individual contributor engineers to understand a wide array of technical and business impacting variables and distill these into strategic and tactical choices that our Machine Learning Engineering teams will use to develop and improve software products for our customers.

Along with your primary directive of working across the product portfolio to support multiple scrum teams you will also be expected to work with external customers either as a consultant or as a solution Machine Learning Engineer. There will also be opportunities to prepare and submit conference and journal articles.

Essential Requirements:

• Familiarity with traditional ML algorithms (classification regression) and MLOps processes
• Experience with building testing measuring and deploying machine learning models in production
• Experience with LLM engineering including:
  - Fine-tuning foundation models (GPT-4 Claude open-source LLMs)
  - Implementing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
  - Prompt engineering and LLM evaluation frameworks
• Expertise in building generative AI applications:
  - Development of multimodal AI solutions (text image)
  - Working with vector databases and embedding models
  - Context window optimization and token management
• Prior engineering project leadership using relevant skills and technologies:
  - Python (Scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch Pandas Numpy Scipy)
  - SQL Linux/Mac command-line tools
• Familiarity with agile software development lifecycle (SCRUM Kanban etc.)
• Previous experience of owning maintaining and enhancing software data products
• Attention to clarity of code ease of development and correctness of implementations
• Good knowledge of software development best practices including testing continuous integration and DevOps tools
• Experience with mentoring and training junior team members especially pair programming
• STEM-related degree (Bachelors Masters or Doctorate)
• 5-8 years experience working on creating machine learning algorithms for production purposes

Preferred Requirements:

• Advanced LLM infrastructure experience:
  - Orchestration frameworks for complex LLM workflows
  - Model quantization and optimization techniques
  - Experience implementing model guardrails and safety mechanisms
• Responsible AI implementation:
  - Hallucination mitigation strategies
  - Evaluation frameworks for generative model outputs
  - Bias detection and mitigation techniques
• Experience with emerging architectural approaches (mixture of experts agent frameworks)
• Knowledge of model distillation and efficient fine-tuning methods
• Experience with clinical domain and with regulated data
• Experience with large language models for healthcare applications
• Knowledge of cloud systems such as AWS Azure GCP and containerization such as Docker
• Experience working with large real-world datasets
• Demonstrated in-depth understanding of product development lifecycle
• Demonstrated aptitude for and interest in peer mentorship
• Experience deploying code into production through CI/CD tools
• Knowledge of biostatistics/life sciences/healthcare technology
• Knowledge of UX principles
• Prior management training preferred but not required

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