Cedar · 13 hours ago
Tech Lead Manager (Machine Learning)
USA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$196K/yr - $247K/yr
6+ years expCedar is a leading healthcare technology company focused on improving the healthcare financial experience. They are seeking a Tech Lead Manager to lead the development of machine learning systems for their Personalization Engine, ensuring system reliability and effectiveness while managing a team of ML engineers.
BillingFinTechHealth CareMedicalPayments
Responsibilities
ML System Ownership: Serve as key DRI (Directly Responsible Individual) for the ML System that powers the Personalization Engine. You will own the machine learning lifecycle end-to-end, ensuring system reliability, platform scalability, and model effectiveness, in partnership with the engineers on the team
Full-Stack ML Execution: Lead and execute engineering work ranging from high-performance MLOps (feature stores, pipelines for model deployment, inference, and monitoring) to sophisticated ML modeling (can include training ensemble models, reinforcement learning, multi-armed bandits, or more), while employing guardrails for compliance and fairness. You will lead by example by making hands-on contributions, and also by guiding and empowering the two ML engineers on your team
Technical Leadership and People Management: Act as a force-multiplier for the Personalization Foundations squad. You will conduct rigorous code and design reviews, elevating the bar across the team, contributing to a culture that is committed to technical excellence and product impact. You will serve as direct manager for the machine learning engineers on the squad, mentoring and coaching them to support their professional growth
Balancing Rigor with a Bias for Action: With a deep understanding of software engineering principles, you build robust, production-grade systems that can handle the scale of millions of healthcare transactions, while also enabling the ability to rapidly operationalize, iterate on, and improve ML models and approaches as we collect data and generate new insights. You understand that the first approach is never perfect, and that learning is a continuous process
Feedback Loop Optimization: Using your combined skillset in data engineering and ML model design, improve and expand upon the feedback loop that captures patient reactions to real-time decisions, ensuring that our models learn autonomously and adapt to changing economic and healthcare landscapes
Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product and Design to translate ambiguous patient journey touchpoints into concrete ML problems. You will help to define the "surface area" of where and how machine learning can provide the most leverage within the Cedar Pay ecosystem
Qualification
Required
6+ years of professional experience in machine learning engineering, where you have designed, built, and deployed effective ML-powered personalization systems or recommendation engines at scale for consumer-facing products (e.g., fintech, e-commerce, social media, etc.)
Expertise in both Python and SQL is highly preferred
2+ years of experience managing ML engineers and scientists, and you have led a team to execute on a technical roadmap, from ideation to production
Experience collaborating closely with product leaders and software engineers, understanding that ML systems don't work in isolation but only in the context of a larger software product
Ability to dive into the data to understand the 'why.' You can articulate how to formulate a business problem as a supervised, unsupervised, or reinforcement learning task
Excitement and inspiration about applying your technical skillset to improve the healthcare financial experience
Preferred
Experience with agentic personalization: You have built and integrated effective Generative AI features into a personalization system, or you have designed tools, components and modules that help enable the development of safe, high-performance GenAI features
Leading the build of software products, beyond the AI/ML components: If your tech leadership skillset crosses over from machine learning engineering to product engineering
Benefits
This role is equity eligible
This role offers a competitive benefits and wellness package
Unlimited PTO for vacation, sick and mental health days–we encourage everyone to take at least 20 days of vacation per year to ensure dedicated time to spend with loved ones, explore, rest and recharge
16 weeks paid parental leave with health benefits for all parents, plus flexible re-entry schedules for returning to work
Diversity initiatives that encourage Cedarians to bring their whole selves to work, including three employee resource groups: be@cedar (for BIPOC-identifying Cedarians and their allies), Pridecones (for LGBTQIA+ Cedarians and their allies) and Cedar Women+ (for female-identifying Cedarians)
Competitive pay, equity (for qualifying roles), and health benefits, including fertility & adoption assistance, that start on the first of the month following your start date (or on your start date if your start date coincides with the first of the month)
Cedar matches 100% of your 401(k) contributions, up to 3% of your annual compensation
Access to hands-on mentorship, employee and management coaching, and a team discretionary budget for learning and development resources to help you grow both professionally and personally
Company
Cedar
Cedar is a patient payment and engagement platform for hospitals, health systems, and medical groups that elevates the patient experience.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$419.36MKey Investors
Memorial Hermann FoundationTiger Global ManagementAndreessen Horowitz
2022-12-19Series D· $68.36M
2021-03-09Series D· $200M
2020-06-22Series C· $77M
Leadership Team
Florian Otto
CEO and Co-Founder
Scott Stockberger
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
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2026-01-20
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