Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer
Build and maintain AI/ML platforms and services for a mental-health care company, deploying scalable Python-based systems on Kubernetes and integrating LLMs and vector databases.
- Compensation
- $143K–$197K / yr
- Location
- United States
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Ml / AI
- Posted
Skills
Nice to have
- Experience with Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, AWS Neptune) and integrating them into AI/Knowledge systems (e.g., GraphRAG)
- Experience with LLM observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Langfuse) to track latency, token usage, and output quality.
- Experience working with Celery
- Experience defining and using Protobuf messages
- 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
Full description
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.
We are looking for an experienced Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer who is eager to build the platforms, infrastructure and services necessary to deliver ML and generative AI based products that make a significant impact within the organization. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about taking ownership of their work, spearheading cross-functional projects, and providing guidance and mentorship to other team members.
Lyra is for you if you
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Thrive on working with brilliant teammates to solve complex, meaningful problems
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Are passionate about making a social impact and supporting people at their most challenging moments
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Enjoy cross-functional collaboration with therapists, data scientists, engineers and product managers
In this role, you will
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Be part of a team working on building our machine learning and generative AI platforms that will be used by teams across the company
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Create the necessary backend infrastructure to enable scalable, resilient and highly performant solutions
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Build services that expose machine learning and AI based products
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Deploy and manage various applications in production
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And of course, you will be coding every day!
We are looking for someone with:
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6+ years of experience delivering production ready products
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Ability to write high-quality code in Python
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Experience with modern async Python web frameworks (e.g., FastAPI) and handling data streaming (WebSockets, Server-Sent Events)
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Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes