Director of AI/ML

The role

You will set the technical vision and strategy for the machine learning organization and lead a team of data scientists and ML engineers. You will also perform hands-on modeling, prototyping, and debugging to ship healthcare products.

What you will do

• Build, mentor, and scale a world-class AI/ML team.
• Establish technical standards, career development frameworks, and a culture of excellence.
• Define and execute the ML roadmap.
• Partner with Engineering to architect data warehousing solutions, ML infrastructure, and data pipelines.
• Contribute to critical modeling, evaluation, and analysis work.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Clinical to translate clinical workflows into ML opportunities.
• Communicate model performance and impact to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or related field
• 8+ years shipping ML products
• 3+ years leading ML teams at early stage startups
• Proven track record building and scaling high-performing data science and ML engineering teams in resource-constrained, scrappy environments
• Deep technical expertise in production ML systems and data infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with data warehousing, real-time prediction, model monitoring, and performance evaluation
• Experience working with healthcare or similarly regulated industries

Nice to have

• Experience leading ML organizations through 0-1 product development in healthcare or clinical settings
• Hands-on experience with clinical data standards (HL7, FHIR, EHR)
• Experience with healthcare ML challenges including data quality, time-series forecasting, and anomaly detection
• Strong technical background in data platform architecture, including modern data warehousing solutions (Snowflake, Databricks, Redshift), streaming data systems, and ML infrastructure tools
• Track record of publishing research, speaking at conferences, or contributing to the broader ML community

About the company

Bayesian Health is an early-stage startup on a mission to make healthcare proactive by empowering clinicians with real-time data. The company is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, American Medical Association's venture arm, Catalio Partners, and LifeForce Capital.