Staff ML Engineer (ML/AI)
Lyra Health3 months ago
Base Salary
$161k - $222k/yr
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture and long-term roadmap for Lyra’s machine learning and generative AI platform.
- Architect end-to-end training, fine-tuning, low-latency inference, RAG, vector database, and enterprise evaluation and guardrail systems.
- Establish AI/ML software development lifecycle standards covering dataset lineage, automated evaluation, red-teaming, and production monitoring.
- Partner with product management, data science, security, and clinical leaders to translate strategic goals into AI platform roadmaps.
- Mentor senior ML engineers, conduct architectural reviews, and establish engineering best practices across teams.
- Lead by example through prototypes, critical-path architecture, strategic coding contributions, and hands-on engineering.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience deploying complex ML/AI solutions in mission-critical production environments with a record of technical leadership.
- Deep expertise in Python, RESTful API design, Protobuf, and microservices architecture.
- Deep expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, container orchestration, and real-time inference services.
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying RAG pipelines, fine-tuning large language models, managing vector databases, and building LLM evaluation and guardrail frameworks.
- Expertise with relational databases, low-latency key-value stores, distributed queueing architectures such as Celery and Kafka, and data pipeline orchestration.
- Strong experience architecting cloud-native solutions on AWS or equivalent cloud providers.
- Exceptional ability to clarify ambiguous technical problems, set strategic priorities, and influence engineering, product, and business leaders.
- Preferred: experience writing high-performance production code in Java or Kotlin.
- Preferred: experience architecting AI/ML systems in regulated environments involving HIPAA compliance, SOC2, and PHI/PII.
- Preferred: experience building internal developer platforms or ML tooling used by dozens of data scientists and engineers.
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About Lyra Health
Lyra Health provides workforce mental health benefits for employers and health plans, combining an AI-powered platform with a vetted provider network, coaching, psychotherapy, and medication management. It sells enterprise contracts that integrate digital tools, care navigation, and outcomes monitoring to deliver evidence-based care and track results. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Burlingame, California, the company is privately held and supports populations globally through employer and health-plan partnerships.