athenahealth
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Boston MA · Senior · Full-time
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About the role
- The individual in this role will contribute across the full machine learning lifecycle, from identifying opportunities and evaluating approaches to deploying production services and improving model performance over time.
- This position reports to the Data Science Manager.
- This team focuses on applying machine learning to complex healthcare problems across a variety of products and domains.
Responsibilities
- Build scalable data pipelines, feature engineering workflows, and training datasets using structured and unstructured data.
- Apply rigorous testing and validation methods to statistics, models, code, and production workflows to support quality and reliability.
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to improve tooling for model training, deployment, observability, and reproducibility.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues across technical and non-technical functions to define requirements, communicate findings, and deliver solutions.
- Our award-winning culture is built around shared values of inclusiveness, accountability, and support.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Proficiency in Python, Structured Query Language (SQL), and Unix-based development environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, including technologies such as Kubernetes, Kubeflow, or Elastic Kubernetes Service, is helpful.
Compensation
- Expected Compensation
Benefits
- Our company culture: Our talented employees - or athenistas, as we call ourselves - spark the innovation and passion needed to accomplish our vision.
- We unite as mission-driven problem-solvers with a deep desire to achieve our vision and make our time here count.
- Our DEI commitment: Our vision of accessible, high-quality, and sustainable healthcare for all requires addressing the inequities that stand in the way.
- While we know in-office collaboration is critical to our vision, we recognize that not all work needs to be done within an office environment, full-time.
- In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons.
- Identify opportunities to apply machine learning techniques to healthcare product and business problems and evaluate which approaches are most appropriate.
- Design and develop machine learning models and ML-based production services for client-facing and internal applications.
- Deploy and maintain production machine learning services using cloud infrastructure and machine learning operations practices.
- Support exploratory analyses, proofs of concept, and prototype development for emerging machine learning opportunities.
- Evaluate new tools, frameworks, and methodologies relevant to machine learning engineering, data science, and generative artificial intelligence.
- Participate in incident analysis and remediation efforts related to machine learning-enabled systems.
Company info
- We are a diverse group of dreamers and do-ers with unique knowledge, expertise, backgrounds, and perspectives.
Visa & Work Authorization
- In addition to our traditional benefits and perks, we sponsor events throughout the year, including book clubs, external speakers, and hackathons
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