Novellia
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Platform
$150K–$200K
Remote · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 25, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years in applied ML.
About the job
Own and productionize machine-learning and LLM-based systems that extract trustworthy structured features from unstructured clinical records for research.
What you'll do
- Lead the full lifecycle of extraction models, from problem framing and annotation strategy through deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
- Define extraction quality with stakeholders and build evaluation, QA/QC, and human-review processes.
- Build clinical NLP pipelines, partner with backend engineers to productionize them, and ensure quality and safeguards are clear to colleagues.
What they ask for
- Healthcare or life sciences experience using real clinical data.
- 6+ years in applied ML, including personally taking models from problem statement to production and maintaining them.
- Depth in applied ML on text, including information extraction, NER, classification, sequence labelling, and evaluation practices.
- Practical experience with LLM approaches and strong Python engineering fundamentals for production systems.
Nice to have
- Fluency with clinical terminologies or standards such as SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm, CPT, or FHIR.
- Experience with HIPAA, SOC 2, de-identification, IRB or regulatory-grade data, OCR, annotation operations, or ML leadership.
Pay
USD 150K – 200K base salary
Tools
Python, SNOMED CT, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm, CPT, FHIR
AI focus
Applied ML and LLM-based extraction of structured features from unstructured clinical text, including model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and retraining.
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