Lyra Health
Senior ML Engineer (ML/AI)
Remote Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 4, 2026
Eligible countries39 accepted countries
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
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Role overview
Senior ML Engineer (ML/AI)
Requirements and responsibilities
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Lyra is for you if you:
- Thrive on working with brilliant teammates to solve complex, meaningful problems
- Are passionate about making a social impact and supporting people at their most challenging moments
- Enjoy cross-functional collaboration with physicians, therapists, data scientists, data analysts and product managers
Responsibilities
- Design, train, fine-tune, and evaluate deep learning, classical ML, and foundational GenAI models (LLMs, diffusion models) to drive core product features.
- Build, scale, and maintain robust ML pipelines for continuous training, evaluation, and real-time/batch inference using modern MLOps frameworks.
- Collaborate with backend and frontend teams to integrate AI models into microservices, ensuring low latency, high availability, and optimal resource utilization.
- Architect scalable data pipelines for preprocessing, vectorizing, and ingestion of massive structured and unstructured datasets.
- Implement rigorous evaluation frameworks for model alignment, bias mitigation, guardrailing, and cost/latency optimization (e.g., quantization, distillation).
- Provide technical leadership, conduct thorough code reviews, and mentor junior/mid-level engineers on best practices in software craftsmanship and ML engineering.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience deploying ML/AI solutions in production environments
- Ability to write high-quality code in Python
- Experience building RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) based solutions
- Experience setting up and maintaining vector databases
- A strong desire to work on ML/AI based products
- A desire to learn new technologies quickly
- A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced settings
- Excellent communication skills with a talent for building consensus and alignment
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to distill complex problems into clear priorities that move the team and business forward
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience defining and using Protobuf messages
- Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes
- Experience with relational and low-latency databases
- Experience working with Celery
- Experience building RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) based solutions
- Experience setting up and maintaining vector databases
- Experience writing production code in Java/Kotlin
- Experience building solutions on cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS
- Experience working with highly sensitive data in a healthcare environment
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