Applied ML Engineer – Healthcare AI Systems

Syndesus, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, dental insurance (100%

401k retirement plans

Disability insurance

Employee assistance programs

Job summary

Syndesus, Inc. is seeking a hands-on ML/LLM Engineer to ship real-world AI applications in healthcare and biopharma. You will own pipelines that blend structured and unstructured data, optimize retrieval, and deploy production-ready systems with measurable impact.

You will work with Python, PyTorch, and tools like LangChain, conduct fine-tuning, evaluate models, and ensure safety and explainability. This mid-to-senior role requires 5+ years in ML, 1–2 years with LLMs, and a track record of

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in applied ML, with at least 1–2 years working with LLMs.
• Strong Python skills and familiarity with ML/LLM frameworks (PyTorch, Transformers, LangChain, LlamaIndex, etc.).
• Comfort with embeddings, vector search, retrieval pipelines, and prompt tuning.
• Bias for experimentation, clarity, and pushing solutions into production quickly.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices, model evaluation, and observability.
• Experience in healthcare, compliance-sensitive data, or regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize pipelines that combine classical ML and LLM-based systems (RAG, scoring, summarization, etc.).
• Fine-tune and evaluate LLMs using both open-source and proprietary data.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to build real-world applications in healthcare and biopharma.
• Implement retrieval strategies, prompt chaining, and inference orchestration for production use cases.
• Monitor and improve model quality, latency, explainability, and safety.
• Stay ahead of the curve in LLM evaluation, tuning, and agent-based architectures.

Skills

Strong Python skills

PyTorch experience

Transformers

LangChain

LLMs

Tools

PyTorch

Transformers

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Job description

Syndesus, Inc. is seeking a hands-on ML/LLM Engineer to ship real-world AI applications in healthcare and biopharma. You will own pipelines that blend structured and unstructured data, optimize retrieval, and deploy production-ready systems with measurable impact.

You will work with Python, PyTorch, and tools like LangChain, conduct fine-tuning, evaluate models, and ensure safety and explainability. This mid-to-senior role requires 5+ years in ML, 1–2 years with LLMs, and a track record of