Manager, AI/ML Engineering

The role

This person will lead the AI/ML engineering team and execute Lyra's machine learning roadmap. The role covers people leadership, technical strategy, and making sure production systems run reliably.

What you will do

• Hold weekly 1:1s, manage performance, and define career paths for machine learning engineers
• Drive quarterly planning for AI/ML workstreams and align them with business objectives
• Build an inclusive, high-performance culture through knowledge sharing, mentorship, and technical standards
• Work with Product Management and Data Science leads to turn clinical requirements into safe production models
• Oversee the ML SDLC through design reviews, guiding work from research to stable microservices on Kubernetes
• Provide architectural guidance and prototypes to scale the team's technical impact

Required qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management, leading and scaling high-performing ML/AI teams in production environments
• Exceptional people leadership: developing technical talent, managing performance, building a collaborative team culture
• Demonstrated experience balancing long-term technical strategy and model governance with day-to-day people leadership
• Strong technical foundation in machine learning systems (transformers, neural networks, fine-tuning) and the ability to lead others in these domains
• Mastery of the ML SDLC, including dataset lineage, automated evaluation, and deploying microservices at scale
• Strong experience architecting cloud-native solutions on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers)
• Exceptional ability to turn ambiguous technical problems into clear strategic priorities and influence leaders across engineering, product, and business

Nice to have

• Experience writing high-performance production code in Java or Kotlin
• Experience architecting AI/ML systems in highly regulated environments (HIPAA, SOC2, handling PHI/PII)
• Experience building internal developer platforms or ML tooling used by dozens of data scientists and engineers

About the company

Lyra Health is a provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving over 20 million people through employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. Its AI-powered platform, Lyra Empower, combines clinical care and technology.