Senior ML Engineer (Portugal Based Remote/Hybrid), Lisboa Lisboa

Senior ML Engineer (Portugal Based Remote/Hybrid), Lisboa
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Senior ML Engineer (Portugal Based Remote/Hybrid), Lisboa

Client:

Sword Health

Location:

Lisboa, Portugal

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Description:

Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain as the world’s first and only
-
- end platform to predict, prevent and treat pain.

Delivering a 62% reduction in pain and a 60% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using technology to save millions for our 2, 500+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $300 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.

Recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2023, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020, but we’ve also created a remarkable mission and
- driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $2 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we’re looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our impact.

Joining Sword Health means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to “do it for the patients” every day, and to always “deliver more than expected” on behalf of our members and clients.

This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside 800+ (and growing!) talented colleagues, spanning two continents. Your charge? To help us build a
- free world, powered by technology, enhanced by people — accessible to all.

The AI Team

The main goal of the AI team is to leverage AI and ML to provide
- quality clinical care at unprecedented levels of personalization and scale. In this regard, in close collaboration with the clinical team, we develop ML-powered features that identify the best course of action for each patient at any given moment or circumstance whilst employing a holistic perspective but also contemplating any relevant nuance. We also work on ensuring the overall experience is as close as possible to a 1:1 session with a Physical Therapist and thus play a crucial role in enabling the AI Care provided by Sword.

Examples of this are projects like “Phoenix” and all the decision support systems that empower our Physical Therapists to provide
- class care to our members.

As for the near future, our focus will be on taking the degree of personalization and human touch of our AI care to a whole new level by leveraging the most recent developments in the Generative AI field.

What you'll be doing:

• Contribute to designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and improving Sword’s products by
  - on AI/ML development;
• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines for getting the data required to build and evaluate models;
• Work alongside the Product, Data & Engineering Teams to define and implement AI/ML-powered features for internal and external users;
• Share your knowledge and experience of how to build ML systems;
• Help grow the AI/ML function by defining and promoting best practices;
• Identify and spearhead initiatives for adding AI/ML capabilities to Sword’s products by navigating uncertainty and
  -
  - value tradeoffs.

What you need to have:

• 4+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning;
• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining production machine learning systems;
• Solid experience in SQL and Python as well as experience developing production software;
• Working knowledge of Python data stack (numpy, pandas, matplotlib,
  - learn, etc);
• Experience leading and owning complex and ambiguous projects from ideation to completion/maintenance;
• Experience providing technical oversight and mentoring colleagues;
• Ability to learn quickly and dive deep into new problems and fields;
• Ability to communicate concepts clearly and interface with both technical and
  - technical stakeholders;
• Ability to prioritize and solve issues according to the team’s direction and goals.

What we would love to see:

• Experience working in a
  - paced environment and wearing different hats;
• Experience building data processing pipelines;
• Experience shipping applications using LLMs and Generative AI;
• Experience using cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:

• A stimulating,
  - paced environment with lots of room for creativity;
• A bright future at a promising
  - tech startup company;
• Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;
• The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;
• A flexible environment where you can control your hours (remotely) with unlimited vacation;
• Access to our health and
  - being program (digital therapist sessions);
• Remote or Hybrid work policy.

The hiring process:

• 30-minute call with the recruiter;
• 30-minute call with an initial screener;
• 1
  - home assignment (to be delivered within 1 week);
• 1h general skills and working principles interview;
• 1h mindset and cultural fit interview.

*Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.