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Layer HealthLayer HealthBoston, MA

ML Research Engineer

Designs, develops, and deploys scalable ML systems and backend infrastructure for healthcare applications, translating LLM research into production while handling large-scale clinical data. Requires 3+ years ML backend experience, 5+ years software development, and backend languages like Python.

160k – 200k/yr
Hybrid3+ YOEML Engineering

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Architect efficient, secure, reliable, and performant ML pipelines and infrastructure.
  • Design, develop, and maintain scalable/data-centric backend infrastructure for our product.
  • Translate start-of-the-art LLM research into production.
  • Work with complex, large-scale, real-world clinical data in a cloud-based environment.
  • Develop methods and features to ensure high-quality results for production models (drift detection, observability tooling).
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to improve products and build next-generation ML for healthcare.
  • Build scalable infrastructure for model development and deployment pipelines, CI/CD, testing/experimentation.
  • Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and error handling for deployed systems.
  • Stay updated on latest advancements in machine learning and AI.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in building ML-native backend infrastructure.
  • 5-7+ years of experience in backend and cloud platform software development.
  • Fluency in one or more backend programming languages including Python, Golang, Rust, Java.
  • Familiarity with modern ML/LLM techniques and frameworks.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Experience in 0-to-1 development of end-to-end ML systems (design, training, inference, deployment, monitoring; bonus for LLMs).
  • Experience developing and maintaining performant, scalable, data-centric enterprise software products.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Compensation

  • Expected range: $160,000-200,000, plus stock options (dependent on experience, fit, and location).

Skills

PythonGoRustJavaMachine LearningLLMsMl PipelinesCloud PlatformsCI/CDModel Monitoring

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