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Expert AI/ML Engineer

Horizontal Talent · Oakland, CA · Today
HybridEngineeringContract

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, train, validate, and deploy machine learning models for a range of business and healthcare analytics use cases.
  • Perform exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model selection, and performance tuning to improve model results.
  • Evaluate model outputs and recommend enhancements to accuracy, stability, fairness, explainability, and overall reliability.
  • Troubleshoot issues related to data quality, model drift, inconsistent outputs, and production performance.
  • Partner with data engineering, analytics, and business teams to ensure models are built on trusted, governed data.
  • Mentor team members and provide hands-on guidance across model design, development, testing, validation, and deployment.
  • Review model architecture, code, features, and evaluation methods to support technical quality and production readiness.
  • Contribute to MLOps practices, including experiment tracking, versioning, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Support model promotion workflows, retraining strategies, rollback planning, alerting, and production support processes.
  • Aid in identifying and shaping AI use cases across reporting, operations, governance, and automation.
  • Provide technical guidance for GenAI and LLM-based solutions such as RAG, semantic search, text-to-SQL, summarization, and document processing.
  • Support governance and compliance activities, including documentation, validation, risk review, auditability, and responsible AI practices.

Skills

  • 8+ years of experience in machine learning, data science, AI engineering, ML engineering, or a related field.
  • Hands-on experience building, tuning, validating, and deploying machine learning models.
  • Strong knowledge of supervised and unsupervised learning, regression, classification, forecasting, NLP, and model evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL.
  • Experience with common ML and data science tools and libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
  • Practical understanding of MLOps concepts such as model registry, experiment tracking, CI/CD, deployment pipelines, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining.
  • Experience working with enterprise data platforms, cloud platforms, and modern data engineering practices.
  • Strong data quality, feature engineering, model validation, and production support skills.
  • Ability to translate business needs into effective AI and machine learning solution designs.
  • Clear communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in healthcare, dental insurance, health insurance, financial services, or another regulated environment.
  • Exposure to Azure ML, Dataiku, Databricks, Snowflake, MLflow, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Power BI, or similar tools.
  • Experience supporting GenAI and LLM-based solutions in an enterprise setting.
  • Familiarity with AI solutions built on enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake or cloud-based data ecosystems.
  • Experience with responsible AI, model governance, bias detection, explainability, and audit requirements.
  • Background supporting AI governance councils, architecture reviews, or model risk review processes.
  • Knowledge of healthcare data domains such as members, providers, claims, benefits, eligibility, call center, clinical, dental, or operational data.
  • A collaborative, curious, and solutions-oriented approach with a passion for helping teams deliver reliable AI outcomes.

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