Sr Cloud Machine Learning Engineer
Description and Requirements
The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will help to design data science systems. Coordinate with enterprise analytics leadership, IT partners and business stakeholders to understand their needs, inform system design and help implement complex solutions. About Healthfirst, Enterprise Analytics For over 30 years, Healthfirst has been serving New Yorkers. We helped pioneer the value-based healthcare model-where hospitals and physicians are paid based on patient outcomes-because our company was founded on the belief that insurers need to be true partners in the health system. Enterprise Analytics is a fast paced, innovative team. Our mission is to drive personalized, relevant interactions that help our members live healthier lives. Insights from this team focus on improving health outcomes, increasing member satisfaction, making our business units more efficient and continuing to grow as a company. We're looking for curious problem solvers to continue to push us forward. If you are member-focused, collaborative and passionate about data come join our growing community of 70+ analysts, engineers and data scientists. Join our team to help build and scale Healthfirst's MLOps and GenAI enablement. The team designs, builds, and maintains machine learning and data pipelines, feature stores, and internal GenAI applications - as well as the tooling and automation that streamline the industrialization of data science work across the enterprise. This is a hands-on senior engineering role in a collaborative team that values excellence, pragmatism, and mentorship.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable ML and data pipelines, including feature stores and MLOps infrastructure.
- Develop and deploy GenAI applications using AWS Bedrock and related frameworks.
- Collaborate closely with data scientists, engineers, and business partners to create reproducible, observable ML systems.
- Automate and improve our deployment and observability stack using Terraform, GitHub Actions, and AWS services (CloudWatch, X-Ray, Lambda).
- Contribute to our transition to containerized, distributed architectures (Docker, OpenShift).
- Mentor teammates help plan and prioritize work, and champion best practices in code quality, automation, and Agile delivery.
- Additional duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science or related discipline
- Five (5) years of experience using scripting or programming languages
- Three (3) years of experience managing the end-to-end ML model life cycle
- One (1) year of experience deploying ML solutions with cloud computing services (e.g., AWS)
- Experience working with semi-structured and unstructured data
- Excited about being a part of the decision-making process
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Preferred Qualifications:
- Masters degree
- Familiarity with containerization methods
- Experience with health-related data
- Languages: Python, SQL, Typescript
- Infrastructure & Automation: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Apache Airflow
- Compute: AWS Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS
- Data & Storage: AWS S3, Redshift, Glue, Athena, DynamoDB, Apache Iceberg, DBT
- ML/AI: AWS SageMaker, Bedrock
- Observability: AWS CloudWatch, X-Ray
Hiring Range:
- Greater New York City Area (NY, NJ, CT residents): $134,600 - $194,480
- All Other Locations (within approved locations): $119,600 - $177,905
As a candidate for this position, your salary and related elements of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, licenses and certifications, and any other factors Healthfirst deems pertinent to the hiring decision.
In addition to your salary, Healthfirst offers employees a full range of benefits such as, medical, dental and vision coverage, incentive and recognition programs, life insurance, and 401k contributions (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Healthfirst believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package wherever its employees work and live.
The hiring range is defined as the lowest and highest salaries that Healthfirst in "good faith" would pay to a new hire, or for a job promotion, or transfer into this role.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. HF Management Services, LLC complies with all applicable laws and regulations. Applicants and employees are considered for positions and are evaluated without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, disability, genetic information, domestic violence victim status, gender and/or gender identity or expression, military status, veteran status, citizenship or immigration status, height and weight, familial status, marital status, or unemployment status, as well as any other legally protected basis. HF Management Services, LLC shall not discriminate against any disabled employee or applicant in regard to any position for which the employee or applicant is otherwise qualified.
If you have a disability under the Americans with Disability Act or a similar law and want a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to careers@Healthfirst.org or calling 212-519-1798 . In your email please include a description of the accommodation you are requesting and a description of the position for which you are applying. Only reasonable accommodation requests related to applying for a position within HF Management Services, LLC will be reviewed at the e-mail address and phone number supplied. Thank you for considering a career with HF Management Services, LLC.
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