[Remote] Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AKASA is a leading provider of generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle, focused on improving patient care through innovative technology. As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, you will develop and deploy machine learning solutions that directly impact healthcare professionals and their operations.
Responsibilities
- Participate in developing state-of-the-art ML solutions to address large-scale healthcare problems
- Own ML services end-to-end, including problem discovery, data pipeline development, inference optimizations, model experimentation, and service deployment
- Help develop pipelines that collect, preprocess, and deliver data with a measurable quality
- Write production-ready software with well-tested and efficient algorithms
- Develop state-of-the-art ML algorithms across large-language models, probabilistic inference and computer vision to solve problems like medical document entity extraction, medical coding and claim outcome prediction
- Help build novel, application-specific ML models - all of our products are built from the ground up with ML at their core, enabling us to deploy our predictions in new and interesting ways
Skills
- Master's degree in Computer Science or similar
- 5+ years of work experience in machine learning and data engineering
- Experience launching production ML systems from the ground up
- Experience with Large Language Models, including both open source model deployment and agentic workflows; ideal: experience directly training or fine-tuning LLMs
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and C++
- Development experience with cloud platforms such as Spark, AWS & k8s
- Knowledge of ML frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, Pytorch & TensorFlow
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off (PTO)
- Expansive coverage for health, dental, and vision
- Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
- Generous parental leave policy
- Full employee coverage for life insurance
- Home office stipend
- Cell phone/internet reimbursement
- Company-paid holidays
- 401(K) plan
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