Machine Learning Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and optimize medical large language models tailored to the needs of medical education and clinical decision support.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams comprising biologists, clinicians, and data scientists to understand domain-specific requirements and translate them into computational solutions.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in deep learning and machine learning to ensure the models developed are state-of-the-art.
• Develop infrastructures for data transformation and ingestion.
• Build AI models that make predictions based on large quantities of data.
• Explain the usefulness of the AI models created to stakeholders.
• Transform machine learning models into APIs to interact with other applications.
• Use expert knowledge to lead research AI and data science projects.

Qualifications

• A minimum of seven years’ post-secondary education or relevant work experience.
• A Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Computational Biology, or a related field is strongly preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in developing complex deep learning solutions to tackle scientific challenges.
• Proficiency with the Python deep learning software stack, particularly expertise in PyTorch, Numpy, and related packages.
• Experience handling and processing large and diverse datasets, especially medical texts, journals, or electronic health records.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with non-technical stakeholders, such as doctors and medical researchers.
• Experience with experiment tracking and project management tools, notably frameworks like Weights & Biases.
• Prior experience in fine-tuning large language models for specific tasks.
• Demonstrated experience in optimizing deep learning models for better performance and efficiency.
• Understanding of biology and/or medicine to bridge the gap between pure machine learning and its applications in the medical field.
• A track record of publications in technical conferences or journals.