Lyric - Clarity in motion. · 5 hours ago
Lead AI Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$212K/yr - $317K/yr
7+ years expLyric is an AI-first healthcare technology company focused on simplifying care by preventing inaccurate payments. The Lead AI Engineer will drive the development of intelligent systems for document understanding and data extraction, leading the design and deployment of advanced machine learning solutions.
BillingConsultingConsumer SoftwareHealth CareInformation TechnologyPaymentsTransaction Processing
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture, development, and deployment of AI/ML systems for document ingestion, understanding, and data extraction
Build and create good datasets and a system of good validation and verifications of data and ML systems
Build and fine-tune LLMs and generative AI models to interpret, summarize, and extract information from complex unstructured content
Develop NLP pipelines leveraging techniques such as OCR, entity recognition, text classification, summarization, and semantic parsing
Integrate LLMs with retrieval systems (RAG), vector databases, and structured outputs suitable for downstream consumption
Collaborate cross-functionally to align technical solutions with product requirements and compliance needs
Mentor a team of AI/ML engineers, establish best practices in model training, evaluation, and monitoring
Stay abreast of the latest advancements in generative AI and apply cutting-edge techniques to real-world document challenges
Qualification
Required
Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in AI/ML engineering, with at least three (3) years in a technical or team leadership role
Previous Technical Leadership in the AI/ML leadership space
Hands-on experience building and deploying S/LLMs or generative AI applications (e.g., using Llama, Deepseek or similar frameworks)
Proven track record of extracting structured data from unstructured document sources, including scanned forms, free-text reports, and complex layouts
Strong software engineering skills in Python and ML frameworks (e.g., Kubeflow, PyTorch, multi-agentic frameworks)
Experience with OCR technologies (e.g., Tesseract, Amazon Textract), NLP techniques, and model deployment in production environments
Deep understanding of NLP methods including embeddings, transformers, named entity recognition (NER), and text classification
Familiarity with MLOps, version control, CI/CD, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Preferred
Experience implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, or fine-tuning foundation models
Familiarity with vector databases (e.g., Postgres-pg-vector, Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate) and semantic search
Strong experience shipping production ML systems with a track record of monitoring and improving the ML systems
Experience working in regulated domains such as healthcare, legal, or finance
Company
Lyric - Clarity in motion.
Lyric is the payment integrity Al company trusted by the nation's leading health plans at the beginning of the claims payment workflow.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$90.9M2023-08-18Undisclosed· $90.9M
2022-04-25Acquired
Leadership Team
Halsey Wise
Member Board of Directors
Meera Atkins
Chief Medical Officer
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