Senior ML Platform Engineer - Healthcare AI & Production Systems
University of Utah Health3 months ago
Salt Lake City, UT, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Create, manage, maintain, and refactor ML codebases, pipelines, and workflows.
- Collaborate with research, medical, engineering, product, and stakeholder teams to design and implement machine learning approaches.
- Implement scalable ML methods and workflows for high-performance computing resources.
- Review code and provide feedback on style, accuracy, testability, efficiency, and engineering best practices.
- Troubleshoot data-analysis, implementation, hyper-parameter, and modeling issues.
- Develop deployable, scalable, and reliable solutions for the healthcare system.
- Write efficient systems code and tests, debug distributed systems, and monitor production systems for degradation or interruptions.
- Assist with manuscript preparation and dissemination of research results.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- Five years of experience in software engineering.
- Hands-on coding experience with C++, Python, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
- Foundational understanding of supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning.
- Ability to independently execute amid ambiguity, identify dependencies, and develop design documents for products, applications, services, or platforms.
- Ability to work on-call, debug distributed systems, manage multiple projects, and collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders.
- Preferred experience includes complex academic medical center environments, large multimodal health datasets, software lifecycle management, shipping scalable reliable services, asynchronous programming and concurrency, Kubernetes services, database or query engines, CUDA, AI systems at scale, site reliability or production support, networking, distributed systems, lower-level infrastructure, accessible technologies, software test engineering, and AI agents.
Benefits
- 50% tuition reduction for eligible employees attending the University of Utah.
- Health, dental, and life insurance coverage.
- Retirement benefits, paid time off, and 11 paid holidays per year.
- Onsite role in Salt Lake City with a Monday–Friday, 9 AM–5 PM schedule.
- Participation in onsite interviews in Salt Lake City is required.
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About University of Utah Health
University of Utah Health is the nonprofit academic health system of the University of Utah, based in Salt Lake City and founded in 1965. It operates five hospitals (including a Level 1 trauma center), eleven community health centers, specialty institutes, and a regional health plan, providing care across Utah and neighboring states while advancing research and medical education. Revenue comes from clinical services, insurance premiums, and sponsored academic programs.