Architect ML - AI Researcher

Quantiphi; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantiphi is seeking an Architect Machine Learning with 10+ years of experience for a remote USA role. You will drive multi-geography healthcare AI projects, enabling data ingestion, cloud services, and DevOps to power digital diagnosis and AI marketplaces.

Collaborate with cloud, software, and data engineering teams to build scalable platforms, responsible AI practices, and production-grade ML systems in a SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. with 1+ year of related industry experience or Master’s with 4+ years in healthcare ML/AI.
• Hands-on experience with healthcare data (EHR, ADT, notes).
• Proficiency in Python; Java or other languages helpful.

Responsibilities

• Apply GenAI and LLM-based ML techniques to scale cloud-based SaaS ML in healthcare.
• Design and evaluate models for use cases like predictive analytics, summarization, and semantic search.
• Develop high-level architectures with offshore teams to deploy production ML systems.

Skills

Python

LLM/AI

Cloud platforms

Data engineering

Communication

Education

Ph.D in a relevant field

Master's degree

Tools

Azure Data Lake

Apache Spark

Databricks

Hugging Face Transformers

PyTorch

LangChain / LlamaIndex

Job description

While technology is the heart of our business, a global and diverse culture is the heart of our success. We love our people and we take pride in catering them to a culture built on transparency, diversity, integrity, learning and growth. If working in an environment that encourages you to innovate and excel, not just in professional but personal life, interests you- you would enjoy your career with Quantiphi!

About Quantiphi

Quantiphi is an award-winning, AI-First digital engineering and consulting company focused on delivering high-impact Services and Solutions that help organizations solve what truly matters. We partner with enterprises to reimagine their businesses through intelligent, scalable, and transformative AI driving measurable outcomes at the very core of their operations. Since our founding in 2013, Quantiphi has tackled some of the world’s most complex business challenges by combining deep industry expertise, disciplined cloud and data engineering practices, and cutting‑edge applied AI research. Our work is rooted in delivering accelerated, quantifiable business value, not just technology for technology’s sake. Headquartered in Boston, Quantiphi is a global organization with 4,000+ professionals serving clients across key industry verticals, including BFSI, Healthcare & Life Sciences, CPG, MFG, TME etc. As an Elite and Premier partner to leading cloud and AI platforms such as NVIDIA, Google Cloud, AWS, and Snowflake, we build and deliver enterprise‑grade AI services and solutions that create real‑world impact. We’ve been recognized with: 17x Google Cloud Partner of the Year awards in the last 8 years. 3x AWS AI/ML award wins. 3x NVIDIA Partner of the Year titles. 2x Snowflake Partner of the Year awards. We have also garnered top analyst recognitions from Gartner, ISG, and Everest Group. We offer first‑in‑class industry solutions across Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods, Manufacturing, and more, powered by cutting‑edge Generative AI and Agentic AI accelerators. We have been certified as a Great Place to Work for the third year in a row- 2021, 2022, 2023. Be part of a trailblazing team that’s shaping the future of AI, ML, and cloud innovation. Your next big opportunity starts here! For more details, visit: Website or LinkedIn Page.

Role: Architect Machine Learning

Experience Level: 10+ yrs

Work Location: USA - Remote

Role Overview

As an ATA Machine Learning Engineer in healthcare, you'll deliver multi‑geography projects, empowering healthcare organizations with data ingestion, cloud services, and DevOps. You'll collaborate with Cloud, Software, and Data Engineering teams to build platforms and solutions for digital diagnosis, software as a medical product, and AI marketplaces.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply GenAI and LLM‑based ML/AI techniques to develop, scale, and integrate model systems and solutions into large‑scale cloud‑based SaaS production environments for healthcare.
• Design, build, and evaluate solutions for healthcare use cases (e.g., predictive models, summarization, semantic search), performing research, experimentation, data management, and model evaluation.
• Develop high‑level solution architectures, collaborating with offshore big‑data engineers and decision science analysts to build, test, and assess models predicting and optimizing client business outcomes.
• Ensure responsible AI practices, including quality, fairness, and safety, using frameworks like LLM‑as‑judge, RAGAS, and LangSmith.
• Translate complex insights into simple, quantifiable business impacts for clients, cultivating deep relationships by understanding their needs.
• Lead technical discussions on architecture design and troubleshooting with clients, proactively providing solutions, and mentor senior resources/team leads.
• Collaborate across functions (product, clinical, data science, engineering) and with offshore delivery managers to ensure seamless communication and delivery.
• Contribute to a collaborative team culture, sharing knowledge, and identifying sales opportunities.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have: Ph.D grad, with 1+ years related industry experience OR Masters grad with 4+ years industry experience--including at least 1 year directly related to healthcare ML/AI Proven industry experience through multiple major product releases in a commercial SaaS environment.
• Hands‑on experience working with healthcare data (e.g. EHR, ADT, clinical notes).
• Proficiency in Python.
• Proficiency in Java or other languages is helpful.
• Proficiency with SQL and data engineering for AI/ML applications.
• Experience working with large datasets using big data frameworks (e.g. Azure Data Lake, Apache Spark or Databricks).
• Solid understanding of transformer models and LLM‑based approaches, including hands‑on experience with prompt tuning and PEFT methods (e.g. LoRA, QLoRA) using frameworks such as Hugging Face Transformers.
• Experience building and evaluating models using modern ML packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit‑learn, PyTorch, and LightGBM.
• Experience building and deploying models using public cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud), including familiarity with version control, CI/CD pipelines, and scaling considerations for production ML systems at SaaS scale.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; comfortable working on a distributed team.
• Experience with one or more of: reinforcement learning or RLHF, NLP techniques for summarization, extraction, classification, or semantic search, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) pipelines and/or agentic frameworks (e.g. LangChain, LlamaIndex).

Leadership qualities

• Provide thought leadership to the team and bring industry best practices to the project.
• Ability to lead technology teams and provide them mentorship / support to accelerate performance.
• Ability to handle conflicts effectively by managing internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in leading multiple large projects as well as a deep understanding of Agile developments.
• Effective communication with all the stakeholders involved communicate clearly about complex subjects and technical plans with technical and non technical audiences.

Good to have

• Hands‑on experience with statistical tools and techniques.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum/DevOps software development methodologies.
• Critical eye for the quality of data and strong desire to get it right.

Other Qualifications (OQs)

• Effective communication with all the stakeholders involved.
• Need to communicate clearly about complex subjects and technical plans.
• Ability to mentor and groom junior members of the team and provide them with guidance and roadmap.
• Must also have the ability to interact with other members of the team (Juniors, Seniors, ATA, TA, BA, etc) to get their designs from concept to development.
• Keeping various audiences in mind, engineers must write their reports in clear language accessible to all.

What’s in it for YOU at Quantiphi

• Make an impact at one of the world’s fastest‑growing AI‑first digital engineering companies.
• Upskill and discover your potential as you solve complex challenges in cutting‑edge areas of technology alongside passionate, talented colleagues.
• Work where innovation happens - work with disruptive innovators in a research‑focused organization with 60+ patents filed across various disciplines.
• Stay ahead of the curve—immerse yourself in breakthrough AI, ML, data, and cloud technologies and gain exposure working with Fortune 500 companies.
• If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over‑achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!