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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