Lead AI/ML Engineering & Platform

Aimlroles; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lyra Health is seeking a strategic engineering leader to drive the machine learning roadmap, scale an impactful ML/AI team, and translate technical vision into production-grade systems with clinical precision and high availability.

The ideal candidate balances long-term strategy with hands-on people leadership, building cross‑functional partnerships with physicians, data scientists, and product leaders to advance Lyra Empower and healthcare AI initiatives.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management, leading and scaling ML/AI teams in production environments.
• Exceptional People Leadership: develop technical talent, manage performance, and build a collaborative team culture.
• Strategic Mindset: balance long‑term strategy with day‑to‑day leadership and governance of models.
• Deep ML/AI Domain Expertise: strong foundation in transformers, neural networks and model deployment.
• Operational Excellence: mastery of ML SDLC, data lineage, automated evaluation, and scalable deployment.
• Cloud Architecture: experience building cloud‑native solutions on AWS or equivalent.
• Strategic Communication: distill complex problems into clear priorities for leaders across engineering, product, and business.

Responsibilities

• Exceptional People Leadership: Facilitate technical growth through weekly 1:1s, performance management, and clearly defined career trajectories for ML engineers.
• Roadmap & Strategy Ownership: Drive quarterly planning for AI/ML workstreams and align with broader business objectives.
• Cultivate Engineering Culture: Champion knowledge sharing, mentorship, and high technical standards across the ML organization.
• Strategic Technical Influence: Collaborate with Product Management and Data Science to turn clinical requirements into robust production models.
• ML SDLC Oversight: Maintain high technical bar via design reviews and scalable microservices on Kubernetes.
• Multiplicative Technical Vision: Provide leadership through architectural guidance to scale team impact.

Skills

People leadership

Strategic thinking

ML/AI systems

SDLC governance

Cloud architecture

Kubernetes / cloud deployment

Cross‑functional collaboration

Mentorship & coaching

Tools

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Lyra Health is seeking a strategic engineering leader to drive the machine learning roadmap, scale an impactful ML/AI team, and translate technical vision into production-grade systems with clinical precision and high availability.

The ideal candidate balances long-term strategy with hands-on people leadership, building cross‑functional partnerships with physicians, data scientists, and product leaders to advance Lyra Empower and healthcare AI initiatives.