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Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Artera

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Location
Chicago , Illinois /Los Angeles

Job Description

Job Overview

Artera is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to enhance patient interactions through AI-powered virtual agents. This role involves building production-ready AI agents, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and integrating advanced technologies like LLMs into healthcare applications. The ideal candidate will help shape the future of patient experience by delivering intelligent and reliable AI solutions.

Technical Requirements

Required Skills
  • • Python
  • • SQL
  • • MLOps
Preferred Skills
  • • TypeScript
  • • NLP frameworks
  • • Cloud infrastructure (AWS)
  • • Airflow
  • • Dagster
Experience Level

5+ years of industry experience in applied machine learning or AI engineering; advanced degrees may offset years of experience.

Responsibilities

  • • Build and ship production-ready AI agents that automate key healthcare workflows.
  • • Design and implement workflows and scripts for agentic conversations based on patient flows and real-world data.
  • • Collaborate closely with Engineering Foundations, Product, Design, and Engineering teams to perform discovery and guide the development of use-case-driven agents.
  • • Conduct end-to-end development including data gathering, hypothesis testing, prototyping, demoing, productionizing, and monitoring.
  • • Implement NLP and LLM-powered components for sentiment analysis, real-time conversation evaluation, and behavior optimization.
  • • Design evaluation agents to enhance the quality and coherence of autonomous conversations.
  • • Work within a modern MLOps environment to ensure scalable and reliable deployment of models.
  • • Contribute to analytics and predictive features such as no-show prediction and sentiment dashboards.
  • • Translate complex ML workflows into digestible updates for cross-functional stakeholders.
  • • Contribute to backlog velocity by owning appropriate tickets and delivering high-impact work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.

Technical Environment

Languages
Tools & Technologies

Benefits & Perks

  • • Full health benefits (medical, dental, and vision)
  • • Flexible spending accounts
  • • Company paid life insurance
  • • Company paid short-term & long-term disability
  • • Company equity
  • • Voluntary benefits
  • • 401(k)
  • • Generous time off including company holidays, Winter & Summer breaks

Additional Information

Location
Hybrid office locations in Santa Barbara, CA and Philadelphia, PA; remote candidates within designated hiring hubs.
Type
Full Time
Compensation
$140,000 - $195,000 a year based on level of experience and geographic tier.

About Artera

Artera provides an intelligent patient communication platform that helps healthcare organizations engage patients more effectively through various digital communication methods.

Company Size
201-500
Categories
AI agents Communication Data Science Digital Health Healthcare Healthcare IT Healthcare Technology patient communication Patient communication platform Patient engagement Virtual agents

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