Machinify

Machinify

Staff Data Scientist

Remote - US · Staff+

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$230kDetected 62 days ago
PythonSQLVector DatabasesAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningPyTorchData ScienceNLPLLMsRAGCommunication

About the role

  • Machinify is a leading healthcare intelligence company with expertise across the payment continuum, delivering unmatched value, transparency, and efficiency to health plan clients across the country.
  • Machinify is an employment at will employer.
  • In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process.

Responsibilities

  • Design and train NLP models for tasks like classification, entity extraction, retrieval, summarization, and semantic search
  • build RAG pipelines and agentic workflows where appropriate
  • Build robust evaluation harnesses - offline metrics, human-in-the-loop review, and online A/B tests
  • Partner with ML engineers to productionize models (latency, cost, monitoring, drift detection)
  • Hands-on experience fine-tuning transformer models (LoRA/QLoRA, instruction tuning, preference optimization) and/or building production RAG systems
  • Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs (open-source and API-based); build RAG pipelines and agentic workflows where appropriate

Requirements

  • 3+ years of applied ML experience with a meaningful portion in NLP
  • We participate in E-Verify as required by applicable law.

Nice to have

  • Publications at ACL/EMNLP/NAACL/NeurIPS or strong open-source contributions
  • Experience with multilingual NLP, speech, or multimodal models
  • Work from anywhere in the US!
  • Machinify is digital-first.

Skills

  • Comfortable with SQL, vector databases (pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar), and one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure)
  • Clear written and verbal communication; can defend a modeling choice and also admit when a heuristic beats a model

Compensation

  • In accordance with applicable state laws, we do not inquire about salary history during the recruitment process.
  • Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
  • The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications, etc.
  • We are hiring for different levels and the base salary can range from $180k-$230k+ based on your assessed level.

Benefits

  • Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
  • Flexible and trusting environment where you'll feel empowered to do your best work
  • Compensation also includes meaningful equity, healthcare, unlimited PTO, and more.

Company info

  • What we're looking for

Equal opportunity

  • We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or recruitment process, please let our recruiters know.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • al employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status

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