Welldoc · 1 day ago
Sr Manager/Director ML Engineering
Columbia, MD
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$150K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expWelldoc is at the forefront of digital health, driven by a powerful mission: empowering better cardiometabolic health through AI-powered, personalized digital tech. The role involves leading a team of ML Engineers to design, build, deploy, and scale robust machine learning pipelines and systems, while also being a hands-on technical leader responsible for the architecture and operational management of AI/ML models.
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Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and manage a team of ML Engineers, including the distributed team in Bangalore, India, to deliver high-impact ML projects from engineering design to production
Translate AI and product priorities into robust ML engineering solutions. Architect, design, and implement scalable ML and MLOps systems. Ensure production reliability, performance, and maintainability of all ML systems
Act as the primary technical bridge to the Bangalore ML team, fostering a unified engineering culture and ensuring process alignment through regular communication and international travel (approx. 4-5 times per year)
Define and implement the complete MLOps lifecycle and data value chain using industry best-in-class solutions. Architect and oversee the development of CI/CD pipelines specifically for AI/ML projects, ensuring automated, reliable, and efficient model training and deployment
Collaborate with Software Engineering to design and build scalable ML systems, leveraging our data lake architecture (Spark and Databricks) to capture and automate data flows
Drive the production deployment, monitoring, scaling, and maintenance of statistical, classical ML, deep learning, and generative AI (including LLM/RAG) models
Provide technical leadership through code reviews and management of best coding practices. Oversee the technical quality and operational excellence of the ML Engineering team's work
Create and maintain data governance SOPs and work instructions such that all data models, processes, and analytic tools conform with required quality, data privacy, and regulatory standards (e.g., ISO13485/MDSAP, HIPAA, GDPR, HiTrust, SOC2)
Leverage a broad stack of technologies—like SQL, Spark, Python, Databricks, PyTorch, and cloud platforms—to build and manage production ML systems
Qualification
Required
5-10 years of experience with relational databases and extracting and transforming data using SQL or Spark
5-10 years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-grade classical and deep learning ML models using Python
Proven experience with deploying Generative AI models, including LLM and RAG applications, in a production environment
5-10 years of experience with industry data and ML platforms (Azure, Databricks, Amazon, Google)
5-10 years of experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GIT, etc
Proven experience leading and managing a team of ML engineers, delivering complex ML projects from concept to production
Strong, hands-on understanding of MLOps principles, tools, and best practices (e.g., model versioning, monitoring, feature stores, automated retraining)
5-10 years of experience leading cross-functional initiatives and communicating effectively with business partners and senior management
Willingness and ability to travel internationally (to India) 4-5 times per year
Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field
Preferred
5-10 years of digital health or population healthcare analytics industry experience preferred
Experience managing or collaborating closely with distributed/offshore development teams preferred
Experience working in regulated and compliant environments (e.g., ISO 13485, HITRUST, SOC 2) preferred
Benefits
Generous PTO
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision care
Life and disability insurance
Retirement benefits
The opportunity to participate in health savings accounts and/or dependent care accounts
Company
Welldoc
Welldoc is a digital health platform that helps in managing chronic conditions.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$55.15MKey Investors
Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital SolutionsSamsung Ventures
2016-03-01Series B· $7.5M
2015-12-17Series B· $22M
2015-07-31Debt Financing· $0.23M
Leadership Team
Keith Reynolds
Chief Operating Officer
Anand Iyer
Chief Analytics Officer
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