[Hiring] Manager, AI/ML Engineering @Lyra Health

Role Description

We are looking for a strategic leader to spearhead the execution of Lyra's machine learning roadmap. In this capacity, you will scale and mentor a high-impact AI/ML engineering team, ensuring our technical vision translates into production-grade systems that operate with clinical precision and high-availability reliability.

The ideal candidate is an experienced engineering manager who excels at balancing long-term technical strategy with hands-on people leadership. You possess a deep passion for developing technical talent, building robust cross-functional partnerships, and cultivating a culture of operational excellence within an AI-driven organization.

Responsibilities

• Exceptional People Leadership: Facilitate technical growth through weekly 1:1s, performance management, and clearly defined career trajectories for machine learning engineers.
• Roadmap & Strategy Ownership: Drive the quarterly planning lifecycle for AI/ML workstreams, prioritizing essential initiatives like clinical program mapping while ensuring alignment with broader business objectives.
• Cultivate Engineering Culture: Establish an inclusive, high-performance environment by championing knowledge sharing, mentorship, and rigorous technical standards across the ML organization.
• Strategic Technical Influence: Collaborate with Product Management and Data Science leads to transform complex clinical requirements into robust, safety-oriented production models.
• ML SDLC Oversight: Maintain a high technical bar through design reviews, guiding the evolution from experimental research to stable microservices deployed on Kubernetes.
• Multiplicative Technical Vision: Provide leadership through strategic architectural guidance and prototypes, focusing on scaling your team's collective impact and technical reach.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in engineering management, specifically leading and scaling high-performing ML/AI teams within production environments.
• Exceptional People Leadership: Strong ability to develop technical talent, manage performance, and build a collaborative team culture.
• Strategic Mindset: Demonstrated experience balancing long-term technical strategy and model governance with day-to-day people leadership.
• Deep ML/AI Domain Expertise: Strong technical foundation in machine learning systems (transformers, neural networks, fine-tuning) with the ability to lead others in these domains.
• Operational Excellence: Mastery of the ML SDLC, including dataset lineage, automated evaluation, and deploying microservices at scale.
• Cloud Architecture: Strong experience architecting cloud-native solutions on AWS (or equivalent cloud providers).
• Strategic Communication: Exceptional ability to distill highly ambiguous technical problems into clear strategic priorities and influence leadership across engineering, product, and business domain disciplines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Polyglot Engineering Background: Experience writing high-performance production code in Java or Kotlin.
• Healthcare & Sensitive Data Expertise: Experience architecting AI/ML systems within highly regulated environments (HIPAA compliance, SOC2, handling PHI/PII).
• MLOps / Platform Productization: Experience building internal developer platforms or ML tooling used by dozens of data scientists and engineers.

Compensation

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000 to $221,500. The base range is determined by role and level, and placement within the range will depend on a number of job-related factors, including but not limited to your skills, qualifications, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare coverage (including medical, dental, vision, FSA/HSA, life and disability insurances)
• Lyra for Lyrians; coaching and therapy services
• Equity in the company through discretionary restricted stock units
• Competitive time off with pay policies including vacation, sick days, and company holidays
• Paid parental leave
• 401K with up to 3% matching
• Monthly tech allowance
• Well-being perks and activities, surprise swag, regular community celebration…and more!

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information or any other category protected by law.