Machine Learning Engineer
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About the Company Crossing Hurdles is a recruitment firm that assists our clients to hire best talent.
About the Company: It is a Cognitive AI platform that automates low-level cognitive tasks involving clinical data and knowledge - tasks that underlie patient care, revenue cycle, clinical research, and population health.
Location: Remote-first (U.S. only), core hours in Pacific time. Bay Area team meets in our San Francisco office weekly; relocation encouraged.
About Role We’re looking for a Senior Data/AI/ML Engineer (7+ years) with expertise in data-intensive systems, strong software engineering skills, and hands-on experience in AI/ML/NLP to help build and scale our clinical data intelligence platform.
What you\'ll do Build and improve clinical/health information extractors and summarizers that directly power applications used by clinicians daily.
Scrape, collect, extract, transform, query, analyze, mine, and distill structured/unstructured data to evaluate system quality and performance, draw insights, and expand/refine our clinical knowledge graph.
Build and improve supporting data/AI/ML systems and automations.
Develop and deploy secure code, maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems and processes in compliance with HIPAA and SOC 2.
Participate in rotating on-call duties to ensure system uptime.
Must-Have Qualifications Strong expertise in Python and SQL , with proven ability to work with large and messy datasets.
Hands-on experience in Machine Learning / NLP , particularly with classifiers, summarization, knowledge graphs, or LLMs (GenAI/LLM Ops experience is a plus).
A solid track record of building production-ready, data-intensive systems (beyond research or prototypes).
Previous startup or early-stage experience , with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, remote-first, and evolving environment.
Full-stack capability – primarily backend-focused, but comfortable making quick changes in React/TypeScript when needed.
High adaptability , able to handle open-ended problems, shifting priorities, and ship iteratively.
Strong software engineering fundamentals , with a balance of quick problem-solving and building robust, scalable solutions.
Nice-to-Have Qualifications Background in healthcare or clinical data .
An advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in CS, Engineering, or another STEM discipline from a top university.
Prior experience collaborating directly with clinicians or domain experts .
Why candidates should join Make an impact : Help clinicians save hours per patient by turning raw health data into actionable insights.
Work on cutting-edge AI : Apply LLMs, knowledge graphs, and advanced NLP to real-world healthcare problems.
Grow with us : Join a fast-moving Series A startup (~20 people) where your work ships quickly and shapes the product.
Seniority level Mid-Senior level
Employment type Full-time
Job function Information Technology
Industries Software Development
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- Location:
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Salary:
- $250,000 +
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Engineering