# Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at AKASA

- Company: AKASA
- What the company does: AKASA provides generative AI (GenAI) solutions for the healthcare revenue cycle, from prior auth to CDI to coding to claims management. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://akasa.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - United States
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $175K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-29
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/akasa/d99e6494-879c-472b-9849-8467fe164e2a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/akasa-sr-machine-learning-engineer/

## About the role

As a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer, you'll report to our Engineering Manager and work with a talented team of PhD Researchers, ML Engineers, and healthcare experts. You will put machine learning into practice, so your code directly affects our customers immediately. You’ll work with large proprietary medical and clinical datasets containing structured documents, natural language and images.

## What they're looking for

- Master's degree in Computer Science or similar
- 5+ years of work experience in machine learning and data engineering
- Experience launching production ML systems from the ground up
- Experience with Large Language Models, including both open source model deployment and agentic workflows, ideal: experience directly training or fine-tuning LLMs
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python and C++
- Development experience with cloud platforms such as Spark, AWS & k8s

Tags: Engineering