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Our customers include the most innovative health systems in the country, like Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, NewYork-Presbyterian, Duke, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. Our customer base represents 1 in 10 inpatient discharges across the United States and more than $180B+ in net patient revenue.\nOur products help health systems comprehensively capture and communicate the full patient clinical journey. By empowering health systems to streamline their operations, they can focus on what matters most - delivering quality patient care.\nWe train internal models and build domain-specific harnesses to power our products and best capture clinical nuance for each customer. We hire people with high agency and good judgment. Everyone here is an owner and builder who is looking to help solve high stakes challenges every day.\nWe have raised over $250M in funding from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, BOND, and Coatue. Our deployments have been recognized nationally as \"one of the most comprehensive real-world uses of GenAI in healthcare finance to date\" (link). \nSome of our recent recognitions include being named one of America's Top Startup Employers 2026 by Forbes, a Top Healthcare Technology Company of 2026 by Healthcare Technology Report, the #1 most promising healthcare RCM startup of 2025 by Black Book Market Research, and we have been certified as a “Great Place to Work” for the past 6 years in a row.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, you'll report to our Engineering Manager and work with a talented team of PhD Researchers, ML Engineers, and healthcare experts. You will put machine learning into practice, so your code directly affects our customers immediately. You’ll work with large proprietary medical and clinical datasets containing structured documents, natural language and images. Our mission is to empower healthcare professionals with tools that amplify their capabilities, making them faster, more comprehensive, and more effective in their roles.\nThe AKASA office is located in South San Francisco. While we support remote work on a variety of teams, we have a strong Bay Area presence across the company. The local R&D teams come into the office every Wednesday for co-working days, which this role will be expected to attend.\nWhat You'll Do\nParticipate in developing state-of-the-art ML solutions to address large-scale healthcare problems\n\nOwn ML services end-to-end, including problem discovery, data pipeline development, inference optimizations, model experimentation, and service deployment\n\nHelp develop pipelines that collect, preprocess, and deliver data with a measurable quality\n\nWrite production-ready software with well-tested and efficient algorithms\n\nDevelop state-of-the-art ML algorithms across large-language models, probabilistic inference and computer vision to solve problems like medical document entity extraction, medical coding and claim outcome prediction\n\nHelp build novel, application-specific ML models - all of our products are built from the ground up with ML at their core, enabling us to deploy our predictions in new and interesting ways\n\nSkills & Qualifications\nMaster's degree in Computer Science or similar\n\n5+ years of work experience in machine learning and data engineering\n\nExperience launching production ML systems from the ground up\n\nExperience with Large Language Models, including both open source model deployment and agentic workflows; ideal: experience directly training or fine-tuning LLMs\n\nProficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and C++\n\nDevelopment experience with cloud platforms such as Spark, AWS & k8s\n\nKnowledge of ML frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, Pytorch & TensorFlow\n\nWhat We Offer\nFlexible paid time off (PTO)\n\nExpansive coverage for health, dental, and vision\n\nEmployer contribution to Health Savings Accounts (HSA)\n\nGenerous parental leave policy\n\nFull employee coverage for life insurance\n\nHome office stipend\n\nCell phone/internet reimbursement\n\nCompany-paid holidays\n\n401(K) plan\n\nCompensation\nBased on market data and other factors, the salary range for this position is $175,000-$230,000 + Equity. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.\n\nThe above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.\nWe’re committed to doing the best work of our lives, together. Come see if we're the right team for you.\nAKASA is a proud equal opportunity employer and we believe that a diverse and inclusive workforce is an imperative. We welcome people of different backgrounds, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and perspectives, just to name a few. We do not discriminate based upon any protected class and we encourage candidates of all identities and backgrounds to apply. AKASA considers qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nAKASA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. 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