Job Url: https://www.remoterocketship.com/company/zushealth/jobs/machine-learning-engineer-data-acquisition-united-states-remote Job Description: Zus Health Website LinkedIn All Job Openings Zus Health is a next-generation health data platform focused on accelerating healthcare data interoperability. By providing a comprehensive and shareable view of patient information, such as through its cornerstone product, the Zus Aggregated Profile (ZAP), Zus enables healthcare providers to deliver more informed and holistic care efficiently. The platform integrates with various electronic health records (EHR) and offers APIs and embedded components to streamline healthcare workflows, reduce administrative burdens, and improve patient outcomes. Zus is committed to placing patients at the center of healthcare interactions, empowering organizations with the necessary tools to boost efficiency and enhance care quality. 51 - 200 employees ⚕️ Healthcare Insurance ☁️ SaaS 🔌 API 💰 $40M Series A on 2023-03 Machine Learning Engineer, Data Acquisition 6 days ago 🇺🇸 United States – Remote 💵 $150k - $190k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟡 Mid-level 🟠 Senior 🤖 Machine Learning Engineer AWS Azure Bootstrap Cloud Google Cloud Platform Java Microservices Python PyTorch Scikit-Learn Tensorflow Go Apply Now Receive Emails with Similar Jobs Report problem 📋 Description • Zus is a shared health data platform designed to accelerate healthcare data interoperability by providing easy-to-use patient data via API, embedded components, and direct EHR integrations. • Founded in 2021 by Jonathan Bush, co-founder and former CEO of athenahealth, Zus partners with HIEs and other data networks to aggregate patient clinical history and then translates that history into user-friendly information at the point of care. • Zus's mission is to catalyze healthcare's greatest inventors by maximizing the value of patient insights - so that they can build up, not around. • As a Machine Learning Engineer within the Data Acquisition (DA) Team, you will play a critical role in bringing your ML expertise to Zus. • The Data Acquisition team is responsible for building and running the microservices based infrastructure which connects with external health data networks to collect information about our patients and load it into the Zus data stores at high volume, as well as supporting those services used by customers and internal stakeholders to request that data. • You will be responsible for using your prior experience with large language models (LLMs) and MLOps to develop, deploy, and optimize solutions in collaboration with DA software engineering. • You will work closely within this cross-functional team to design, implement, and scale machine learning solutions that address key business challenges. • In your role as a ML Engineer, you will be responsible for conducting research to explore new methodologies and techniques, and integrating them into our product offerings. • You will develop prototypes to test and improve upon your innovations and develop feedback mechanisms to improve models with human oversight. • You will work with software engineers to help deliver CI/CD pipelines, and automate workflows to ensure reliable and scalable model operations. • You will be responsible for presenting your learnings and helping the team leverage these methods and techniques. 🎯 Requirements • 3+ years building and shipping ML models, including hands-on experience with LLMs or classical NLP methods in production environments. • Experience partnering with software engineers to ship, monitor, and iterate on models in production. • Proficiency in Python (must-have); Java or Go a plus. • Strong understanding of machine learning frameworks and libraries (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn). • Solid grasp of classical ML algorithms—their assumptions, strengths, and failure modes (e.g., tree ensembles, logistic/linear models, nearest-neighbor indexes). • Hands-on experience designing offline or online experiments: crafting task-specific metrics, computing bootstrapped confidence intervals, and conducting slice-based error analysis. • Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and distributed computing. • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a keen attention to detail. • Demonstrated curiosity—comfortable jumping into unfamiliar domains, papers, or codebases and learning fast. • Strong verbal/written skills—able to explain complex ML concepts to diverse stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment. 🏖️ Benefits • Competitive compensation that reflects the value you bring to the team a combination of cash and equity • Robust benefits that include health insurance, wellness benefits, 401k with a match, unlimited PTO • Opportunity to work alongside a passionate team that is determined to help change the world (and have fun doing it)