Machine Learning Engineer

Nomad Health is the first digital marketplace for healthcare jobs, efficiently connecting quality clinicians with rewarding career opportunities. Forbes recognized Nomad as one of the "Best Startup Employers", Newsweek included Nomad on its "Most Loved Workplaces" list and Built In NYC named Nomad one of the "Best Mid-Sized Companies To Work For." Our technology takes the busywork out of finding clinical work. We are a well-funded Series D startup backed by First Round Capital, RRE Ventures, 406 Ventures, Polaris Partners, Icon Ventures, Adams Street Partners, and Kevin Ryan (founder of MongoDB, Zola, Gilt, and DoubleClick).

The U.S. healthcare system is experiencing a staffing crisis. Employers spend $20 billion per year recruiting clinicians to care for the rapidly aging U.S. population. Nomad replaces antiquated staffing agencies with modern technology to efficiently source, qualify, and hire medical talent on demand. Clinicians find better jobs with higher pay. Employers fill roles faster with higher quality care. Nomad is a fast growing team of technologists, creators, and industry experts passionate about modernizing healthcare staffing so clinicians can get back to the work they do best: caring for others.

Position Summary

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will own the core recommendation algorithm that drives the personalized experience for over 400,000 clinicians on the Nomad Health platform.

Responsibilities/What You Will Do

In this role, you'll be expected to perform many Machine Learning engineering activities, including one or more of the following:

• Design, build, and deliver improvements to the job recommendation algorithm.
• Creatively solve challenging problems by developing application code using machine learning approaches and technologies.
• Inform infrastructure decisions with your knowledge of ML modeling techniques, including algorithm choice, training data, feature engineering, model training, hyperparameter tuning, dimensionality reduction, bias/variance trade-offs, and validation.
• Own the design, execution, and analysis of A/B tests to measure the impact of changes to the recommendation algorithm.
• Build and maintain data engineering pipelines to support efficient data flow and feature engineering for ML models.
• Retrain, maintain, and monitor models in production.
• Leverage or build cloud-based architectures (AWS/GCP) to scale and optimize ML models.
• Ensure code is well-managed, vulnerabilities are minimized, and models adhere to Responsible and Explainable AI best practices.
• Document, organize, and communicate workflows through Jira and other tools.
• Apply Git best practices for code collaboration and version control.
  
  

Qualifications/ Skills - What You Will Need

• Competency
• Python (OOP)
• SQL/BigQuery
• Broad knowledge about modern Machine Learning algorithms and how to use them.
• (preferred) Experience working on recommendation systems and knowledge graphs.
• Proficiency with data engineering tools like Airflow and dbt.
• Cloud Services (AWS or GCP (preferred))
• Git best practices
• (preferred) Experience deploying ML models in a production environment
• Required education and experience - Bachelor's Degree in a technical field or equivalent work experience.
• Additional eligibility qualifications - Master's Degree or equivalent work experience preferred.
  

Don't meet every single requirement? We encourage you to apply - you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at Nomad Health. Studies show that individuals from marginalized communities are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every requirement. Nomad Health is dedicated to a diverse, inclusive, and authentic culture.

The Company has reviewed this job description to ensure that essential functions and basic duties have been included. It is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as deemed appropriate. This document does not represent a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this position description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.

Nomad Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

Compensation for this full-time position is between $115,000 to $163,000. This range reflects the minimum and maximum amount employees can earn during their time in the role. Actual pay may be higher or lower depending on geographic locations, skills, experience, and other factors permitted by law.