Senior AI/ML Backend Engineer
Lyra Health3 months ago
Base Salary
$143k - $197k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build machine learning and generative AI backend services supporting AI/ML product features.
- Create scalable, resilient, and high-performance backend infrastructure.
- Deploy and manage applications in production.
- Integrate retrieval-augmented generation and generative AI chatbot capabilities.
- Use LLM observability and monitoring tools to track latency, token usage, and output quality.
- Collaborate with therapists, data scientists, engineers, and product managers on cross-functional projects.
- Write production code and take ownership of systems and priorities.
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience delivering production-ready products.
- Ability to write high-quality Python code.
- Experience with modern asynchronous Python web frameworks and data streaming using WebSockets or Server-Sent Events.
- Experience with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes.
- Experience with relational and low-latency databases.
- Experience integrating retrieval-augmented generation into AI features and building generative AI chatbots.
- Experience with LLM observability and monitoring tools such as Langfuse.
- Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex and foundation model APIs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS Bedrock.
- Preferred experience setting up and maintaining vector databases, working with Celery, and defining and using Protobuf messages.
- Preferred production coding experience in Java or Kotlin and experience building solutions on AWS.
- Preferred experience working with highly sensitive data in a healthcare environment.
- Strong communication, consensus-building, organizational, prioritization, and collaborative problem-solving skills.
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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.