Senior Machine Learning Engineer I

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI Foundations team. In this role you will build and enhance the models powering Spring Health’s precision mental health engine and develop the Spring AI platform. This is an opportunity to design and implement innovative data products that will positively impact the lives of our members as well as contribute to and move the science and practice of mental health forward. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Contribute to the development of algorithms and datasets that power a personalized member care journey and data products that enhance caregiver capabilities and outcomes.
• Develop and bring to production data-centric product features like search and personalized recommendations.
• Develop an AI Platform to support new data products across the company.
• Build GenAI products to improve both member and provider experiences.
• Monitor and continuously improve deployed models.

What success looks like in this role:

• Launch new recommender system products
• Create new data products using GenerativeAI
• Collaborate with data science teams to bring prototype models to production
• Raise the bar for engineering excellence and delivery

What we expect from you:

• Degree in a STEM, Economics, or related quantitative field, and at least 3 years of commercial experience in a ML engineer role, or a related role such as data/backend engineer with direct experience in data science products.
• Proficient in Python and SQL, including standard modeling libraries such as Pytorch and Scikit-Learn.
• Experience building data pipelines for models and analytics (eg. Airflow, Prefect, or similar).
• Experience with deploying and managing model endpoints (eg. Sagemaker, Vertex AI, or similar).
• Proficiency with GenAI workflows (eg. RAG, prompt-engineering).

The target base salary range for this position is $159,100 - $194,150, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.

Benefits provided by Spring Health:

Your Total Health:

• Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring Health. You and your dependents also receive an individual One Medical account which is valued at $199/year per user. HSA and FSA plans available
• A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents
• 10 allocated sick days per year
• Flexible paid time off in addition to 12 paid holidays throughout the year
• Access to Gympass, an on-demand virtual benefit that provides wellbeing coaching, and budget management.
• Spring Renewal: When you hit your four-year Springaversary, you’ll be awarded a four week, fully paid, sabbatical leave to renew and recharge. 

You And Your family:

• 4-4.5 months of fully paid parental leave
• Spring Health provides team members and their families with sponsored access to Bright Horizons® child care, back-up care, and elder care.
• Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses

Supporting you financially through:

• Our People team benchmarks all salaries using the Radford Global Compensation Database for technology and life sciences industries. Radford benchmarks salaries with 3,589 global firms, 6.5 million employees, and 98 countries across the globe. We do this to ensure all of our team members are paid equally and competitively.
• On top of competitive and benchmarked salary, Spring Health offers incentive pay (based on role), and equity that begins vesting as we celebrate your first year with the company!
• Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% after 90 days of employment

Creating a culture you can thrive in:

• Flexible work arrangements: 66% of Spring Health team members work fully remote while 33% work in a hybrid model from our New York City offices
• Focus Fridays: no meetings, no distractions, just time for you to get work done.
• Focus Weeks: In Spring 2023, we held our first ever Focus Week, we canceled all non-essential meetings, minimized distractions, and you, our team members, to dive into the key work that gets chopped up or deprioritized during the regular day-to-day. We saw a 36% jump in the average energized score after those five days of flow state work and are finalizing a plan for quarterly Focus Weeks for team members.
• Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement per calendar year.
• $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes