As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead AI-driven projects, build scalable ML pipelines, and collaborate cross-functionally to enhance healthcare services.
Accompany Health is on a mission to give low-income patients with complex needs the dignified, high-quality care they deserve but rarely receive. A primary, behavioral, and social care provider, Accompany Health walks alongside patients for their entire care journey, offering at-home and virtual care, as well as 24/7 support. Partnering with innovative payors, Accompany Health is powered by remarkable care teams, elegant technology, and a commitment to evidence-based practice.
We build long-term relationships with our patients so they know, without question, that our team is here for them day or night, year after year. We focus on the health outcomes most important to our patients to make it clear that they lead the way.
To achieve our mission, we collaborate with community-based organizations, local providers, and health plans. Led by our empathetic care teams, guided by proven care models, and powered by our own technology, we deliver a level of service that our communities rightfully deserve but rarely receive.
While our headquarters is in Bethesda, MD, our teams are distributed across the country. If you’re eager to make a tangible difference in people’s lives, to help correct long-standing disparities in health care, join us.
About the role:
As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Accompany Health, you will help us transform healthcare through AI at Accompany Health.
Your impact:
-Mission-critical, be part of our growing team (and company).
-Collaborate across the organization with various teams, including Product, Sales, and Clinical Operations, to rewire health care: Your choices will matter, and you will work across multiple teams to help execute the choices.
-Drive the change in healthcare: You will build the products to integrate highly fragmented and dispersed healthcare services as an end-to-end experience.
-Be part of building a great engineering culture, maintaining the balance and right tradeoff for building products for speed and tech debt.
Responsibilities will include:
- Technical Leadership
- Be the AI champion and empower others to leverage the data to its full potential with a review of AI models.
- Lead the technical design and implementation of reliable, scalable, and efficient
- Machine Learning infrastructure, products, and software solutions for external and internal customers.
- Lead the development of efficient, reliable AI pipeline architecture with strong monitoring capabilities.
- Provide technical leadership to develop data engineering best practices and standards that promote accessibility and usability.
- Build and maintain robust, scalable data infrastructure to support current and future needs.
- Create and maintain optimal AI pipeline architecture with high observability and robust operational characteristics.
- Champion responsible AI development by implementing and reviewing models that maximize data value while ensuring fairness and equity
- Assemble large, complex data sets that address functional and strategic requirements.
- Partner with cross-functional teams, including Executive, Product, Clinical, Data, and Design, to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needsIdentify, design, and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and scalability.
- Create data tools for analytics and data scientist team members that assist them in building and optimizing our product into an innovative industry leader.
- Develop Safeguards to ensure that AI models are fair and appropriate so that all patients receive high-quality and timely care. Optimize our ecosystem to generate meaningful insights and drive innovation
- Develop efficient, reliable AI pipelines with strong monitoring and observabilityNavigate and optimize our data ecosystem to drive meaningful insights
- Work with and assemble large, complex data sets that meet functional / non-functional needs.
Data Strategy & Architecture
Collaboration & Enablement
Quality & Innovation
Desired skills and experience:
- 5+ years of data engineering experience, including 3+ years focused on machine learning
- Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative field
- You are entrepreneurial and mission-driven and can present your ideas with clarity and confidenceProblem solver who can thrive in a remote but collaborative team environment
- Hands-on expertise in:Developing and implementing modern LLM models and transformers
- Developing and deploying ML models in a production environment Strong Python, SQL, and ability to create efficient and maintainable code for machine learning applications
- Develop, productize and maintain ML pipelines for model training, evaluation, deployment (such as AWS Sagemaker, Bedrock)
- Design and Implement best practices for model versioning, experimentation, and reproducibility
- Continuously improve our ML infrastructure for stability, scalability, observability, and security
- Develop internal tooling and libraries to enhance ML workflow efficiency
- Performing root cause analysis identify opportunities for improvement
- Healthcare experience is valuable but not required
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For Patient Facing Roles
To keep our patients, communities and each other safe, you'll be required to comply with Accompany Health’s medical clearance requirements, including completing a TB screen and providing proof of immunity or vaccination for certain conditions. This is a condition of employment, and we make exceptions as required by law. Accommodation for religious and medical beliefs will be provided on a case by case basis.
We embrace diversity and believe it creates a healthier atmosphere: Accompany Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Top Skills
Aws Sagemaker
Bedrock
Machine Learning
Python
SQL
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