Pedestalhealth

Pedestalhealth

Senior AI/ML Engineer

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 35 days ago
Code ReviewVector DatabasesCloud PlatformsMachine LearningNLPLLMsRAGEHR/EMRClinical TrialsClinical ResearchResearchExperimental DesignCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • Pedestal Health is seeking a Senior AI/ML Engineer to join our Technology team and help shape the next generation of real-world evidence solutions.
  • These systems enable our researchers, statisticians, and clinical teams to extract deeper insights from complex healthcare data.
  • This is a highly collaborative position.

Responsibilities

  • Develop methods and features to ensure high-quality production model results, including drift detection, performance degradation monitoring, and observability tooling.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, research scientists, and product teams to build ML-native enterprise platforms, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability at every layer.
  • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex technical concepts and model outputs into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining high performing, scalable, data-centric enterprise software products.
  • You will partner closely with software engineers, data scientists, research scientists, and product managers to build high-performing, reliable, and scalable ML-native platforms.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in backend and cloud platform software development, with the flexibility to traverse the stack when necessary.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

  • Hands-on experience with LLMs in production environments, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
  • 401(k) with company match

Benefits

  • About Pedestal Health
  • Pedestal Health (formerly Target RWE) combines deep health system partnerships, longitudinal data curation at scale, and modern study design to build continuous, high-quality evidence for life sciences organizations.
  • Pedestal Health is committed to advancing medical decision making to improve outcomes for patients.
  • Pedestal Health is a Highlander Health company.
  • In this hands-on role, you will design, develop, and deploy scalable machine learning systems - with a particular focus on large language model (LLM) applications.
  • Your work will directly support Pedestal Health's mission of advancing clinical research and informing better healthcare decisions at scale.
  • Design, develop, and deploy scalable ML software systems to address large-scale analytical challenges in healthcare and real-world evidence generation.
  • Stay current on the latest advancements in machine learning and AI, and proactively identify opportunities to apply relevant innovations to Pedestal Health's platform.

Company info

  • Translate state-of-the-art LLM research - both internally developed and from the broader research community - into production-ready solutions that deliver measurable value for our customers and internal teams.

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