Sr. Machine Learning Engineer

About AKASA

AKASA is the preeminent provider of generative AI solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle. The company has raised more than $205M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz BOND and Costanoa Ventures.

Named one of the fastest-growing GenAI startups to watch by AIM Research we’re solving the biggest challenges in the financial infrastructure of healthcare. Transaction volume through the AKASA Platform has grown consistently with a ~ 2.5x year-over-year increase in the last year. The AKASA customer base represents more than $90B in net patient revenue and includes the most innovative health systems in the country like Stanford and Johns Hopkins.

Our founding team includes Silicon Valley leaders who have founded or been founding team members of multiple companies with successful exits. Our CEO was ranked among the “Top 50 Healthcare Technology CEOs” by the Healthcare Technology Report. We have been recognized as one of “America’s Best Startup Employers” by Forbes “Most Innovative Digital Health Startups” by CB Insights “Best Companies for Remote Workers” by Quartz and “Best Places to Work” by Fortune Modern Healthcare and Built-In along with being certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the past four years in a row.

Learn more at www.AKASA.com .

We are building the future of healthcare with AI. Everyone is welcome. As an inclusive workplace we are committed to building an environment where our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

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About the Role

As a remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer you'll report to our Engineering Manager Machine Learning and work with machine learning PhDs from top schools (e.g. Stanford Cornell UC Berkeley) and experienced machine learning engineers from top companies (e.g. Google Facebook Amazon). You will put machine learning into practice so your code directly affects our customers immediately. You will work with large proprietary medical and clinical datasets containing both structured documents natural language and images.

AKASA is based in South San Francisco. As a company we embraced remote work. We consider ourselves experts in working collaboratively wherever our team members reside.

What You'll Do

• Participate in developing state-of-art machine learning solutions to address large scale healthcare problems

• Design and build pipelines that collect preprocess and deliver data with a measurable quality

• Write production-ready software with fast and efficient algorithms

• Own machine learning services from end-to-end including problem discovery data pipeline development model experimentation and service deployment

• Help build new machine learning prediction delivery systems - all of our products are built from the ground up with machine learning at their core enabling us to deploy our predictions in new and interesting ways

• Opportunity to quickly make an impact and becoming a leader on the ML team

• Develop state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms across computer vision natural language understanding and structured data problems to solve problems like medical document entity extraction and claim outcome prediction

Skills & Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or similar

• 5+ years of work experience in machine learning or data engineering

• Have experience launching production systems from the ground up

• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and C++

• Development experience with big data technologies such as SQL and AWS/Cloud Platform

• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks such as Pytorch and/or Tensorflow

• Full-stack development experience for an end-to-end machine learning solution

• Ideal experience with Natural Language Processing or Computer Vision

What We Offer

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO)

• Expansive coverage for health dental and vision

• Employer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)

• Generous parental leave policy

• Full employee coverage for life insurance

• Company-paid holidays

• 401(K) plan

Compensation

• Based on market data and other factors the salary range for this position is $175000-$230000 + Equity. However a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately in determining your pay we'll consider your location experience and other job-related factors.

We’re committed to doing the best work of our lives together. Come see if we're the right team for you.

AKASA is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds genders races ethnicities abilities sexual orientations and perspectives just to name a few. We do not discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. AKASA considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

AKASA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability please let us know at [email protected].