Homeward · 1 day ago
Senior ML Data Ops Engineer (Hybrid)
San Mateo, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$160K/yr - $190K/yr
6+ years expHomeward is focused on transforming healthcare delivery in rural America by addressing access and quality issues. The Senior ML Data Ops Engineer will manage the production ML lifecycle, design CI/CD pipelines, and build cloud data infrastructure to support data science and analytics efforts.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareHospital
Responsibilities
Own the production ML lifecycle — deployment, monitoring, scaling, retraining, and reliability of models in production
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for applications, infrastructure, data, and ML artifacts using AWS and GitHub Actions
Build and operate cloud data infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CDK) with a focus on security, scalability, and compliance
Develop and maintain data ingestion and transformation pipelines across structured and semi-structured sources (APIs, files, healthcare data)
Partner with data science and analytics to ensure high-quality, well-modeled data in Snowflake using dbt and modern ELT tooling
Implement observability and monitoring across services, data pipelines, and ML models (drift, performance, failures)
Support regulated workloads (HIPAA / PHI) with strong data and model governance practices
Contribute to technical roadmap, documentation, and engineering best practices across ML, infra, and data
Qualification
Required
6–8+ years of experience across DevOps, MLOps, and/or Data Engineering
Deep experience with AWS (SageMaker, ECS/EKS, Lambda, ECR, CloudWatch, Step Functions)
Strong hands-on experience with: Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CDK), CI/CD (GitHub Actions preferred), Containers & orchestration (Docker, ECS/Kubernetes)
Advanced SQL and Python skills for data pipelines, automation, and ML workflows
Experience with modern data stacks (Snowflake, dbt, Airbyte or similar)
Comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-moving, startup environment
Preferred
Experience in healthcare or other regulated domains
ML monitoring tooling
Experience building feature pipelines or supporting automated model retraining
Exposure to genAI tooling and LLM platforms
Startup or early-stage scaling experience
Benefits
Competitive salary, equity grant, generous paid time off
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental & vision insurance with 100% of monthly premium covered for employees
Company-sponsored 401k plan
This role is eligible for an annual bonus, stock options, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
Company
Homeward
Homeward is focused on improving access to high-quality, affordable primary and specialty care in rural communities.
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$82MKey Investors
Advanced Research Projects Agency for HealthGeneral Catalyst
2025-02-12Grant· $12M
2022-08-03Series B· $50M
2022-03-07Series A· $20M
Leadership Team
Alexandre Thome
SVP Product & Technology
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