Remote ML & AI Engineer – Healthcare Impact

Acentra Health, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 90,960 - 113,700; Full time

Job summary

Acentra Health is seeking an Associate Machine Learning Engineer/AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy ML solutions in healthcare, under guidance of senior engineers. The role includes building data pipelines, training models (including NLP and GenAI), and contributing to production-ready code and documentation.

The position is remote, but candidates based in Raleigh/Durham/Cary, NC or DC area are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field (Master’s a plus).
• 2+ years of relevant experience building or applying machine learning solutions (AI/LLM deployments).
• Working knowledge of Python and fundamentals of ML and statistics.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing and testing machine learning models and algorithms for healthcare use cases (e.g., risk stratification, prediction, decision support).
• Support data preparation activities including data cleaning, feature engineering, and basic data augmentation.
• Help build and maintain repeatable ML workflows/pipelines for training, validation, and experiment tracking.
• Run model evaluations using standard metrics; document results and support troubleshooting of performance issues.
• Partner with software engineering/DevOps to package, deploy, and monitor models in non-production and production environments.
• Create and maintain documentation, code comments, and basic runbooks; participate in code reviews and team ceremonies.
• Support ML pipelines including data preparation, training workflows, and deployment into applications.
• Stay current on advances in LLMs, GenAI, and compliance requirements (HIPAA, GDPR, FDA).

Skills

Python

NLP concepts

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/Engineering

Tools

scikit-learn

PyTorch

TensorFlow

SQL

Pandas

NumPy

Azure

AWS

Job description

Acentra Health is seeking an Associate Machine Learning Engineer/AI Engineer to design, develop, and deploy ML solutions in healthcare, under guidance of senior engineers. The role includes building data pipelines, training models (including NLP and GenAI), and contributing to production-ready code and documentation.

The position is remote, but candidates based in Raleigh/Durham/Cary, NC or DC area are preferred.