Lyra Health

Sr. Machine Learning Engineer (ML/AI)

Job Description

About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced Senior ML Engineer who is eager to build the tooling and services necessary to deliver ML and generative AI based products that make a significant impact within the organization.  The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about taking ownership of their work, spearheading cross-functional projects, and providing guidance and mentorship to other team members.

Lyra is for you if you:
- Thrive on working with brilliant teammates to solve complex, meaningful problems
- Are passionate about making a social impact and supporting people at their most challenging moments
- Enjoy cross-functional collaboration with physicians, therapists, data scientists, data analysts and product managers

This role can be carried out from our Burlingame, CA headquarters, hybrid, or fully remote/virtually. Remote candidates must be physically located within the United States.


Responsibilities
  • Build tooling and services that power the machine learning and generative AI powered solutions in production
  • Training and inference platform services
  • The model evaluation metrics and testing framework
  • Build services that expose machine learning and AI based products
  • Deploy and manage various applications that power various components of the the AI/ML SDLC process
  • And of course, you will be coding every day!

  • Qualifications
  • 6+ years of experience deploying ML/AI solutions in production environments
  • Ability to write high-quality code in Python
  • Experience building RESTful APIs
  • Experience defining and using Protobuf messages
  • Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes
  • Experience with relational and low-latency databases
  • Experience working with Celery
  • A strong desire to work on ML/AI based products
  • A desire to learn new technologies quickly
  • A love of building systems from scratch
  • A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced settings
  • Excellent communication skills with a talent for building consensus and alignment
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to distill complex problems into clear priorities that move the team and business forward

  • Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience building RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) based solutions
  • Experience setting up and maintaining vector databases
  • Experience writing production code in Java/Kotlin
  • Experience building solutions on cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
  • Experience working with highly sensitive data in a healthcare environment