Drimva

Hims & Hers

Sr. Director of Machine Learning

$330K–$360K

US - Remote · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 29, 2026

Experience
14+ years in machine learning and software engineering, including 8+ years leading ML teams; experience managing managers or senior tech leads.

About the job

Leads teams building and operating LLM-powered services and custom machine-learning models for clinical, personalization, recommendation, and operational workflows.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow ML teams, set technical direction, and deliver AI services from problem framing through production operation.
  • Own LLM application strategy and production standards, including orchestration, evaluation, reliability, safety, latency, and cost.
  • Direct custom ML development and partner across clinical, product, infrastructure, and other teams to ensure appropriate validation and measurable impact.

What they ask for

  • 14+ years of experience in machine learning and software engineering, including 8+ years leading ML teams and experience managing managers or senior tech leads.
  • Track record shipping ML-powered products to production at scale and owning them operationally.
  • Depth in modern LLM application development, including RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning and adaptation, evaluation, and agent and tool-calling architectures.
  • Experience training and deploying deep learning models and strong software architecture judgment.

Nice to have

  • Experience in healthcare, digital health, another regulated domain, or safety-critical ML systems.
  • Experience with clinical decision support, clinical NLP, or ML systems where a human expert is the end user.

Pay

$330K – $360K (base salary)

Tools

LLMs, RAG, deep learning, classical ML

AI focus

Leads development of LLM-powered clinical and operational services, custom deep learning and classical ML models, and systems for evaluation, reliability, and human oversight.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)