Waystar

Waystar

Senior ML Engineer

Lehi, UT · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 30 days ago
PythonVector DatabasesGCPCloud PlatformsCI/CDMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchNLPLLMsRAGAgentic AIMLOpsHIPAAResearchCollaborationProblem SolvingAdaptability

About the role

  • Waystar is trusted by 1M+ providers, 1K+ hospitals and health systems, and is connected to over 5K commercial and Medicaid/Medicare payers.
  • Waystar products have won multiple Best in KLAS® or Category Leader awards since 2010 and earned multiple #1 rankings from Black Book™ surveys since 2012.
  • For more information, visit waystar.com or follow @Waystar on Twitter.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize robust pipelines for ingesting, parsing, and extracting structured information from complex documents ( leveraging OCR, document layout analysis, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and Relationship Extraction ( RE)).
  • Develop rich, nested JSON schemas for representing structured data and ensure scalable storage
  • Generate and manage high-quality vector embeddings for efficient retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) within a Vector Database.
  • Explore and implement knowledge distillation techniques to transfer capabilities from larger models to smaller, more efficient LMs.
  • Agentic System Design & Implementation:
  • Build and maintain the core agentic framework, including the orchestrator that intelligently routes queries and coordinates interactions between various specialized LM tools.
  • Deploy, manage, and monitor LMs and agentic components on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using services like Vertex AI, GKE, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run.
  • Implement robust MLOps practices for continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), model versioning, and performance monitoring (latency, throughput, accuracy).
  • Stay abreast of the latest research in LMs, agentic AI, NLP, and document understanding, applying relevant advancements to our system.
  • Active use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools and techniques to enhance performance, drive innovation, and improve decision-making across business functions.

Nice to have

  • Direct experience with document processing technologies such as OCR, layout parsing, Document AI, or custom information extraction from unstructured text.
  • Experience with Vector Databases (e.g., pgvector, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant ) and RAG architectures.

Skills

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Compensation

  • Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)

Benefits

  • Through a smart platform and better experience, Waystar helps providers simplify healthcare payments and yield powerful results throughout the complete revenue cycle.
  • Competitive total rewards (base salary + bonus, if applicable)
  • Customizable benefits package (3 medical plans with Health Saving Account company match)
  • We offer generous paid time off for our non-exempt team members, starting with 3 weeks + 13 paid holidays, including 2 personal floating holidays.
  • We also offer flexible time off for our exempt team members + 13 paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave (including maternity + paternity leave)
  • Education assistance opportunities and free LinkedIn Learning access
  • Free mental health and family planning programs, including adoption assistance and fertility support
  • Develop and integrate "tools" (specialized LMs and external APIs) that perform atomic medical necessity tasks, ensuring strict behavioral alignment and structured outputs.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related quantitative field.
  • 3+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning Engineering, with a strong focus on NLP.

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