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Engineering Manager, Machine Learning

Layer Health · Boston or NYC · On-site

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About Layer Health

We have built the AI-layer for chart review—to unlock value and improve care by identifying insights from longitudinal medical charts at scale. Backed by GV.

About the role

Expected compensation range for this role is $250,000-275,000. Compensation is dependent on experience, overall fit to our role, and candidate location. Expected compensation ranges for this role may change over time. If your compensation requirement is greater than our posted salary ranges, please still consider applying to our role. We will make a determination as to whether an exception can be made.

What they're looking for

  • Help craft and drive the ML technical agenda in partnership with engineering, research, and product leadership, ensuring the roadmap aligns with company goals and high-impact opportunities
  • Lead rigorous experimentation and model evaluation, ensuring our LLM systems meet clinical-grade performance and reliability requirements
  • Work closely with our engineering team to integrate and scale models in production, optimize inference efficiency, and maintain strong observability and monitoring
  • Establish and champion best practices in modeling, code quality, reproducibility, and experiment design—helping define “what incredible looks like” for ML at an early-stage, mission-driven health tech company
  • Communicate technical work clearly to cross-functional partners and leadership, translating ML developments into strategic implications for the business and product
  • Recruit, cultivate, and inspire the next generation of technical talent as the team grows
More about this role

Layer Health was founded in 2023 by leading machine learning researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical School. We are building an AI layer that can accurately and scalably synthesize information from medical records, with the mission to reduce friction everywhere in healthcare. Our LLM-powered platform is solving chart review once and for all, across use cases. For health systems, our first product dramatically accelerates clinical registry abstraction in areas ranging from surgery and cardiology, to oncology. Our long term vision is for our AI layer to safely transform patient care and minimize unnecessary heartbreak. Layer Health’s diverse founding team brings expertise across machine learning, UI/UX, large language models, and medicine.

We’re seeking outstanding hires to join our team as early members. This is an opportunity to contribute to a high-impact, collaborative, mission-driven team, and help define the next stage of growth for Layer Health. Together, we will create the AI layer that will redefine healthcare for the better.

We’re currently looking to hire our first ML Engineering Manager to help mentor our team and oversee ML strategy. This is a hybrid role in our Boston...

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