Akasa
Sr. Machine Learning Engineer
Remote - United States. Posted 5 months ago
The role
You will develop state-of-the-art ML solutions to address large-scale healthcare problems. You will own ML services end-to-end using large proprietary medical and clinical datasets.
What you will do
- 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
- Help build novel, application-specific ML models
Required qualifications
- 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
- 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
Nice to have
- experience directly training or fine-tuning LLMs
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
About the company
AKASA is building the future of healthcare by developing AI-native solutions for complex healthcare work. Their products help health systems capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey.