Lead Machine Learning Engineer
Company: Cohere Health
Location: San Diego
Posted on: January 1, 2026
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Job Description:
As a Lead Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll join our growing
team of world-class machine learning engineers and clinical experts
to deploy machine learning models that help automate burdensome
administrative clinical practices. Our ML team’s work is focused on
designing, deploying, and monitoring production models which
extract or predict relevant clinical findings from structured and
unstructured data sources. What you’ll do: • Design, develop and
deploy advanced machine learning algorithms for retrieval,
classification and generative use cases. • 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: • At
least 7 years of experience in applied ML with a masters degree or
5 years with a PhD, ideally in a senior or lead role in a large
technology or healthcare company • 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 • Expert in Python with experience in deep learning
frameworks (e.g., PyTorch) • Hands on experience building deep
learning models (e.g., transformers) for NLP tasks • MS or PhD
required Bonus points for: • Experience with generative AI or
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) • Experience working with
unstructured healthcare data (e.g., clinical notes) • Experience
with OCR or image-based document understanding techniques • Hands
on experience using AWS tools such as SageMaker Studio
Keywords: Cohere Health, Oceanside , Lead Machine Learning Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , San Diego, California
