Sr. ML Engineer (MLOps)

About Lyra Health Lyra Health is a leading provider of evidence-based mental health care, serving more than 20 million people globally in partnership with employers and more than 100 million through health plan and partner relationships. The company has delivered more than 15 million sessions of mental health care, published more than 35 peer-reviewed studies, and delivered unmatched outcomes in terms of access, clinical effectiveness, and cost efficiency. Extensive peer-reviewed research confirms Lyra’s transformative care model helps people recover twice as fast and results in a 26% annual reduction in overall healthcare claims costs. Lyra is transforming access to life-changing mental health care through Lyra Empower, the only fully integrated, AI-powered platform combining the highest-quality care and technology solutions.

Responsibilities: Build tooling and services that power the machine learning and generative AI powered solutions in production

Training and inference platform services

The model evaluation metrics and testing framework

Build services that expose machine learning and AI based products

Deploy and manage various applications that power various components of the the AI/ML SDLC process

And of course, you will be coding every day!

Qualifications: 6+ years of experience deploying ML/AI solutions in production environments

Ability to write high-quality code in Python

Experience building RESTful APIs

Experience defining and using Protobuf messages

Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes

Experience with relational and low-latency databases

Experience working with Celery

A strong desire to work on ML/AI based products

A desire to learn new technologies quickly

A love of building systems from scratch

A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced settings

Excellent communication skills with a talent for building consensus and alignment

Strong organizational skills and the ability to distill complex problems into clear priorities that move the team and business forward

Preferred Qualifications: Experience building RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) based solutions

Experience setting up and maintaining vector databases

Experience writing production code in Java/Kotlin

Experience building solutions on cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS

Experience working with highly sensitive data in a healthcare environment

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