Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Millbrae, CA, us remote Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 21, 2025 Last posted March 21, 2025
Job description

At care.coach, we are pioneering human-in-the-loop digital avatars that support behavioral health among the highest-need, highest-risk patients (typically elderly) both in the hospital and at home. Please check out the following video to understand how we help vulnerable patients living at home: 

  • https://care.coach/2-min-demo 

We're looking for a highly experienced and mission-aligned ML engineer to join our team in a key engineering leadership role -- 

Minimum Requirements:

  • Doctorate in a related field
  • 8+ years of experience (including any applicable work in grad school) developing machine learning applications for practical use 
  • 2+ years in an agile software development environment, preferably with an early-stage startup 
  • 2+ years developing web-based applications, including web-based ML/data infrastructure 

Additional Desired Experience: 

  • Audio signal processing, ASR, NLP, and NLG/dialog for conversational automation
  • Computer vision for human activity and sentiment classification
  • Development of data mining, analytics, dashboards and reporting systems
  • Engineering management (both personnel & projects)
  • LAMP stack w/ PHP, and Django web framework
  • Academic publications, conference speaker roles, or other public recognition as a top technical/domain expert

Location:  Anywhere in US

Job Type: Full-time regular W2 employment with benefits. (no C2C; no 1099; no visa sponsorship) 

Compensation: Competitive depending on qualifications

Company Headquarter: Located in Millbrae, CA

Job Type: Full-time

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

About this role

Summary

Lead ML development for digital avatars supporting behavioral health in a startup environment

Job title

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Experience level

8+ years

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Anywhere in US, remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

doctoratemachine learningweb developmentagilepythondjango

Preferred skills

audio processingnlpnlgcomputer visiondata miningdashboardsmanagementphp

Specializations

machine learningweb applicationsaudio signal processingcomputer visiondata analytics
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

California, USA

Remote State