Remote Director of ML Engineering & Platform

Rawlings Company; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Top medical/ dental/ vision coverage

FSA/HSA

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Health and wellness perks

Equity

Job summary

Machinify is hiring a hands-on Sr/Director of Engineering to lead the ML Engineering team and scale our AI/ML platform for health plan clients nationwide.

You will bridge data science concepts with production-grade services, shaping the platform around LLMs, agent architectures, and reliable, observable systems. You’ll partner with DS leadership and product to drive strategy and delivery.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years managing teams of ~8+ engineers with hands-on technical leadership.
• 8+ years direct hands on backend services experience.
• 3+ years building AI/ML production-grade services at scale with DS/engineering collaboration.
• Strong in Java, Scala, Rust, or similar backend languages, plus Python.
• Understanding of productizing ML/AI platforms - workflows, serving, observability, reliability, and scale.
• Fluent in data science concepts to partner with DS leadership.
• Strong communicator, organized, proactive.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and taking initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow the AI/ML Engineering team, coordinating with data scientists on collaborative projects.
• Design, deliver and operate the core AI/ML platform: agent frameworks, evaluation harnesses, labeling systems, document processing, semantic search, knowledge bases, model hosting.
• Run AI/ML systems at scale in production with reliability, observability, performance and incident response.
• Create processes to turn DS proofs-of-concept into production-grade services.
• Partner with the Chief AI Officer and Product Manager for strategy and roadmap.
• Drive predictable velocity through efficient stand-ups and capacity planning.
• Ensure the cross-functional team leverages AI tech to enhance coding, PR reviews, testing, observability and incident response.

Skills

Backend languages

Python

Leadership

Data science collaboration

Communication

Adaptability

Healthcare experience

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science

Tools

Java/Scala/Rust

Job description

Machinify is hiring a hands-on Sr/Director of Engineering to lead the ML Engineering team and scale our AI/ML platform for health plan clients nationwide.

You will bridge data science concepts with production-grade services, shaping the platform around LLMs, agent architectures, and reliable, observable systems. You’ll partner with DS leadership and product to drive strategy and delivery.