Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Applied AI & LLMs (x/f/m)

Doctolib; France; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

25 days paid vacation

Mental health & coaching services

Relocation support

Lunch vouchers

Job summary

Doctolib is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the ML Engineering team in Patient Solutions, based at the Paris office with hybrid working. You will build and scale AI systems that improve access to quality care and patient health management across Europe.

Responsibilities include designing retrieval and LLM/VLM solutions, deploying them to production, and driving rigorous experiments while collaborating with platform teams. English fluency is required.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or AI Engineering.
• Strong experience in Information Retrieval and modern retrieval stacks: hybrid search, embeddings, vector databases, multi-stage retrieval and re-ranking.
• Proficient in LLM and VLM application development: fine‑tuning, MoE, distillation, prompts, benchmarking.
• Hands-on experience building and orchestrating agentic AI systems (e.g., using ADK).
• Strong scientific rigor: metrics aligned with product goals, controlled experiments, clear results communication.
• Experience operating large-scale production applications (monitoring, reliability, performance).
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement ML/AI solutions aligned with product goals (search, retrieval, care pathways).
• Build and maintain large-scale retrieval pipelines (hybrid search, embeddings, vector databases, re-ranking).
• Develop, fine-tune, evaluate LLM/VLM models (distillation, MoE, prompts).
• Build and orchestrate agentic AI systems with external data/tools and MCP integrations.
• Define metrics, run controlled experiments (W&B, MLFlow, Braintrust) and share findings.
• Deploy production solutions with ML platform team focusing on reliability and observability.

Skills

Machine Learning

Information Retrieval

LLM/VLM development

Experimentation

Production-scale ML

English proficiency

Tools

W&B

MLFlow

Braintrust

LiteLLM

Model Garden

ADK

Job description

Your Impact

We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the ML Engineering team in Patient Solutions.Your mission will be to improve how people access quality care and manage their health over time by building and leading AI and ML systems that create real, measurable impact. You will work in a feature team developing intelligent patient-facing solutions, from smart practitioner discovery to long-term care management, playing a key technical role in shaping how we scale our AI capabilities across Europe. Working in the tech team at Doctolib means building innovative products and features to improve the daily lives of care teams and patients.

What you'll do

• Design and implement ML and AI solutions aligned with patient product goals, covering search, retrieval, and personalized care pathways
• Build and maintain large-scale retrieval pipelines, including hybrid search, embedding systems, vector databases, and multi-stage re-ranking architectures
• Develop, fine‑tune, and evaluate LLM and VLM models using techniques such as knowledge distillation, Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures, and prompt engineering
• Build and orchestrate agentic AI systems, integrating external data and capabilities through tools and MCP-based integrations
• Define metrics aligned with product goals, run controlled end‑to‑end experiments using W&B, MLFlow, or Braintrust, and communicate findings to guide product and technical decisions
• Deploy solutions to production in collaboration with our ML platform team, ensuring reliability, observability, and performance at scale, and act as a technical reference to elevate the team's standards and practices

Who you are

Before you read on: if you don't have the exact profile described below, but you feel this job description matches your skill set.

• You have 7+ years of experience in Machine Learning, Deep Learning, or AI Engineering, with a strong track record of taking models from prototype to production at scale
• You have strong experience in Information Retrieval and modern retrieval stacks: hybrid search (sparse + dense), large-scale embeddings and vector databases, multi-stage retrieval and re-ranking pipelines, RAG architectures, and tool/MCP-based integrations
• You are proficient in LLM and VLM application development: fine‑tuning, MoE architectures (via LiteLLM or Model Garden), knowledge distillation, prompt engineering, and systematic benchmarking of LLM/VLM systems
• You have hands‑on experience building and orchestrating agentic AI systems (e.g., using ADK)
• You demonstrate strong scientific rigor: designing metrics aligned with product goals, running controlled experiments, and communicating results clearly to both product and engineering stakeholders
• You have experience operating large-scale applications in production (monitoring, reliability, performance, observability), bring strong analytical skills, and approach your work with a user-first mindset. You are fluent in English
• It would be fantastic if you:

• Have experience in B2C marketplace environments
• Have experience in other ML methodologies: pattern mining, recommendation systems, experimentation, or causal inference

Life at Doctolib Tech

Our solutions are built on a single fully cloud-native platform that supports web and mobile app interfaces, multiple languages, and is adapted to country and healthcare specialty requirements.

Our stack is composed of Rails, TypeScript, Java, Python, Kotlin, Swift, and React Native.

We leverage AI ethically across our products to empower patients and health professionals. Discover our AI vision here.

What we offer

• Free comprehensive health insurance (basic package) for you and your children
• 25 days of paid vacation per year, plus up to 14 days of RTT
• Free mental health and coaching services through our partner Moka.care
• Work from abroad for up to 10 days per year thanks to our flexibility days policy
• Lunch vouchers (Swile card) worth €8.50 per working day, with €4.50 covered by Doctolib
• A subsidy from the work council to refund part of the membership to a sport club or a creative class
• 50% reimbursement of your public transport subscription
• ParentCare Program: Enjoy full salary coverage (100%) during your first month of birth leave, and 75% during the second, covered by Doctolib
• Enrollment in Doctolib's long-term employee value sharing plan called DoctoGrowthFor caregivers and workers with disabilities, a package including an adaptation of the remote policy, extra days off for medical reasons, and psychological support
• Relocation support in case of international mobility
• Access to the best AI tools for coding, development and dedicated training

Our interview process

• Recruiter Interview
• Feature Building Interview
• System Design Interview
• Behavioral Interview
• At least one reference check

We want your experience to be clear, respectful, and transparent.

Job details

• Permanent position
• Full-time
• Location: Doctolib Paris office in Levallois-Perret
• Hybrid work setup (3 days/week in the office)
• Start date: as soon as possible

We welcome everyone

At Doctolib, we are committed to improving access to healthcare for everyone. This translates into our recruitment process. We evaluate candidates based solely on qualifications and motivation, without any form of discrimination.

The more diverse ideas are heard, the more our product will truly improve healthcare for all. You are welcome to apply to Doctolib, regardless of your gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, ethnicity, or disability.

To ensure equal opportunities, we invite you to exclude personal information (e.g., pictures, age) from your applications. If you require any accommodation, please let us know for support during the hiring process.

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