Senior Software Engineer - ML Engineer – AI Platforms and Services

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description : 

JOB SUMMARY

***Entirely Remote Work From Anywhere Role!***

Are you passionate about building intelligent systems that solve real-world problems? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment, pushing the boundaries of innovation with cutting-edge technology? If so, we invite you to join our AI Platforms and Services team as a Machine Learning Engineer! Join our team and drive the integration of AI/ML solutions within software applications for our enterprise stakeholders!

We are seeking an experienced Machine Learning Engineer to join our AI Platforms and Services team. In this role, you'll combine your expertise in machine learning algorithms, software engineering, and data infrastructure to build intelligent systems that can learn and make predictions or decisions based on data. You'll be responsible for designing, developing, and deploying machine learning models as services in software systems to meet business goals and support experimentation and innovation.

As an integral member of an agile software engineering team, you'll build scalable AI/ML-based products and reusable back-end APIs to serve our customers. You'll take an enterprise-wide, architectural view of the solutions, executing product development using the technical stack that best meets the platform's needs. You'll be involved in every aspect of the ML application build process from idea generation and business analysis to technical design, software development, and deployment using the latest technologies and design patterns.

Your work will involve:

• Understanding and translating business and functional needs into machine learning problem statements.
• Translating complex machine learning problem statements into specific deliverables and requirements.
• Designing and developing scalable solutions that leverage machine learning and deep learning models to meet enterprise requirements.
• Translating machine learning algorithms into production-level code.
• Collaborating with development teams to test and deploy machine learning models.
• Monitoring the performance of deployed models, tracking data or concept drift, and updating or retraining models as needed.
• Ensuring adherence to performance standards and compliance with data security requirements.

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for designing and creating engineering specifications for software applications and programs. Responsible for designing & writing code that adheres to coding standards. Performs code reviews.
• Responsible for idea generation, exploring and implementing appropriate technical solutions to achieve the required product features, as well as monitoring technical process against project plan while safeguarding functionality, scalability and performance.
• A part of an agile work team and responsible for participating in all scrum ceremonies, assisting in sprint planning and completing required sprints in the development through final execution of software applications/programs. Communicate any issues/blockers to the Scrum Master in a timely manner.
• Drive story creation (i.e. DoD, Acceptance Criteria, estimation). Create Tasks for their stories in applicable software (ex: RTC or Jira), and updates status and assignment accordingly.
• Monitor work against production schedule and provide progress updates and report any issues or technical difficulties to lead developers on a regular basis.
• Mentor other associate and intermediate software engineers as needed.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field  

Preferred

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field 

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 5 years proficiency in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable; highly available systems

To include:

• 5 years in at least one modern programming languages (Java, Python, JavaScript, ACE, IIB/ITX, Informatica preferred), and experience with at least two of the following: React, Angular v4+, NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• 5 years of understanding of web services technologies such as REST, HTTPS, JSON
• 5 years with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Java, Python (Django/Flask), C/C++, C#, Objective C,