Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Opportunity Overview:

We are seeking innovative and highly driven Senior Machine Learning Engineers to design and deploy advanced machine learning solutions across retrieval, classification, and generative AI use cases. In this role, you will apply state-of-the-art language models and agentic architectures to complex clinical data, uncovering meaningful insights that directly support our product, leadership, and clinical operations teams.

You will work cross-functionally with product managers, clinicians, and technical leadership to translate real-world healthcare challenges into scalable, production-ready machine learning systems. This opportunity offers the chance to tackle a wide range of strategic and operational problems while building reliable, high-impact AI solutions in a mission-driven clinical environment.

What you’ll do:

• Design, develop and deploy advanced machine learning algorithms for retrieval, classification and generative use cases.
• Apply advanced analysis techniques and statistical concepts to draw insights from massive datasets, create intuitive simulations, data visualizations, and business narratives.
• Develop reliable and scalable production machine learning systems.
• Write and maintain reusable codebases to perform data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, and deployment
• Provide software and machine learning best practice guidance to junior engineers
• Work cross-functionally with diverse stakeholders, including product managers, clinicians, and technical leadership to align ML solutions with Cohere’s core objectives.

What you’ll need:

• You have 5+ years experience in applied ML in the industry with a masters degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics or a similar field
• Clear understanding of model building, model maintenance and the measures that optimize models for production use
• Understand experimental design and can independently perform collection, measurement, and interpretation of results.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - experience collaborating with and presenting to technical and non technical (i.e., clinical, service operations) audiences.
• Expert in Python with experience in deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch)
• Experience with generative AI and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Pay & Perks:

💻 Fully remote opportunity with about 5% travel

🩺 Medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and Employee Assistance Program

📈 401K retirement plan with company match; flexible spending and health savings account

🏝️ Up to 184 hours (23 days) of PTO per year + company holidays

👶 Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave

🐶 Pet insurance

The salary range for this position is $135,000 to $175,000 annually; as part of a total benefits package which includes health insurance, 401k and bonus. In accordance with state applicable laws, Cohere is required to provide a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including but not limited to qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and internal alignment.

Interview Process*:

1. Connect with Talent Acquisition for a Preliminary Phone Screening
2. Meet your Hiring Manager!
3. Behavioral Interview(s)
4. Case Study

*Subject to change

About Cohere Health:

Cohere Health is a fast-growing clinical intelligence company that’s improving lives at scale by promoting the best patient-specific care options, using cutting-edge AI combined with deep clinical expertise. In only four years our solutions have been adopted by health plans covering over 15 million lives, while our revenues and company size have quadrupled. That growth combined with capital raises totaling $106M positions us extremely well for continued success. Our awards include: 2023 and 2024 BuiltIn Best Place to Work; Top 5 LinkedIn™ Startup; TripleTree iAward; multiple KLAS Research Points of Light awards, along with recognition on Fierce Healthcare's Fierce 15 and CB Insights' Digital Health 150 lists.

The Coherenauts, as we call ourselves, who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all. To us, it’s personal.

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