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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Syndesus
Austin$140k–160kOn-site10mo ago
- Employment
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Senior
About the role
- Own and optimize pipelines that combine classical ML and LLM-based systems (RAG, scoring, summarization, etc.)
- Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs using both open-source and proprietary data
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build real-world applications in healthcare and biopharma
- Implement retrieval strategies, prompt chaining, and inference orchestration for production use cases
- Monitor and improve model quality, latency, explainability, and safety
- Stay ahead of the curve in LLM evaluation, tuning, and agent-based architectures
- 5+ years of experience in applied ML, with at least 1–2 years working with LLMs
- Strong Python skills and familiarity with ML/LLM frameworks (PyTorch, Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.)
- Comfort with embeddings, vector search, retrieval pipelines, and prompt tuning
- Bias for experimentation, clarity, and pushing solutions into production quickly
- Understanding of responsible AI practices, model evaluation, and observability
- Experience in healthcare, compliance-sensitive data, or regulated environments
- Opportunity to make a real impact on the future of healthcare
- Autonomy, ownership, and growth potential
- 100% employer-paid health, vision, and dental insurance
- Retirement plans (401k), disability insurance, and employee assistance programs
Compensation
Perks & benefits
- 401k
- Dental Insurance
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