Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Layer Health

$250K — $275K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Degree in computer science, mathematics, or physics
  • 7+ years of experience in machine learning, healthcare exposure preferred
  • Minimum of 2 years in a leadership role, mentoring teams
  • Strong abilities in model training, evaluation, and deployment with fluency in Python
  • Experience with production-level data pipelines and model monitoring
  • Strategic thinker who is hands-on when necessary
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a team of ML Engineers and Data Scientists
  • Guide teams from experimentation to production levels of LLMs
  • Translate ambiguous ideas into clear model requirements and evaluation plans
  • Collaborate with engineering to deploy ML models efficiently
  • Define the data science roadmap and establish technical benchmarks
  • Communicate project importance to technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Promote best practices in modeling and experimentation through mentorship

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence early-stage healthcare technology
  • Collaboration with a diverse, mission-driven team
  • Exposure to cutting-edge AI applications in healthcare
  • Hybrid work environment in Boston or NYC
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Full Job Description
We're currently looking to hire our first ML Engineering Manager to help mentor our team and oversee ML strategy. This is a hybrid role in our Boston or NYC office; you will work closely with our engineers, ML scientists, and product teams to enable our team to build ML-native enterprise platforms, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability. Here's a collection of articles about our product, mission, recent funding round, etc. **What you'll do** - Provide technical leadership and management to a small, high-leverage team of ML Engineers, Research Engineers, and ML/Data Scientists. Act as a player-coach: you'll set direction while remaining actively involved in design, experimentation, and implementation. - Drive the development of end-to-end ML systems-from shaping ambiguous problems into clear model requirements, training datasets, evaluation frameworks, and model architectures, to supporting reliable production deployment. - Help craft and drive the ML technical agenda in partnership with engineering, research, and product leadership, ensuring the roadmap aligns with company goals and high-impact opportunities. - Lead rigorous experimentation and model evaluation, ensuring our LLM systems meet clinical-grade performance and reliability requirements. - Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and scale models in production, optimize inference efficiency, and maintain strong observability and monitoring. - Establish and champion best practices in modeling, code quality, reproducibility, and experiment design-helping define "what incredible looks like" for ML at an early-stage, mission-driven health tech company. - Communicate technical work clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership, translating ML developments into strategic implications for the business and product. - Recruit, cultivate, and inspire the next generation of technical talent as the team grows. **What we look for** - Degree in computer science, mathematics, physics, or a related field. - 7+ years of hands-on ML experience, ideally including LLMs or NLP; healthcare exposure is a plus but not required. - 2+ years of technical leadership experience (formal or informal) where you've guided teams, set direction, and mentored others and 1 or more years formal management experience. - Deep ML expertise: model development, training workflows, data pipeline design, evaluation methodology, and production deployment. - Strong Python fluency and experience with modern ML tooling and infrastructure. - Comfortable owning production-level data pipelines, monitoring, and performance analysis. - A strategic thinker who can also dive deep into hands-on implementation when needed. - Thrives in fast-paced, high-autonomy environments with evolving requirements. - Excellent communication and collaboration skills. - A passion for transforming healthcare with state-of-the-art AI. **Would be nice** - Previous early stage startup experience (and a love for it) Expected compensation range for this role is $250,000-275,000. Compensation is dependent on experience, overall fit to our role, and candidate location. Expected compensation ranges for this role may change over time. If your compensation requirement is greater than our posted salary ranges, please still consider applying to our role. We will make a determination as to whether an exception can be made. If you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement. We're eager to meet people that believe in our mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways. We welcome diverse perspectives, rigorous thinking, and fearlessness in challenging the status quo.

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