Lead Machine Learning Engineer

Company: Corporate
Location: Kansas City
Posted on: March 20, 2023

Job Description:

You could be the one who changes everything for our 26 million members by using technology to improve health outcomes around the world. As a diversified, national organization, Centene's technology professionals have access to competitive benefits including a fresh perspective on workplace flexibility.

Position Purpose: Perform tasks required to implement predictive modeling features as software, including building artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and statistical models; packaging, deploying, integrating, and supporting AI/ML models; and building platforms and processes to facilitate the development of AI/ML models by others.

Acts as a technical leader for ML/AI projects and coordinates with other technology teams to drive the architecture, tool choice, and implementation strategies of the project
Trains and mentors junior machine learning engineers
Writes reusable code libraries for use by other machine learning engineers
Writes software code to enable and automate ML/AI model training and deployment
Investigates and adapts new software platforms for ML/AI and data engineering
Invents new software platforms and patterns for ML/AI and data engineering, such as new software libraries for text analysis, availability of software packages within the company, and new packaging and deployment
Builds ML/AI models using common methods within R and Python

Education/Experience:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Math, Physics, or similar quantitative field or equivalent experience. 7+ years of related experience required. Software engineering proficiency in 2+ programming languages, databases, version control, statistics, or machine learning required. Preferred experience: SQL and noSQL databases, writing and consuming APIs, application containers (e.g. Docker), streaming data, building predictive models, compute clouds, creating database schemas, Linux administration, continuous integration/continuous deployment.

Centene is in the process of updating several IT job profiles and based on this update the job title for this role may change.

Our Comprehensive Benefits Package: Flexible work solutions including remote options, hybrid work schedules and dress flexibility, Competitive pay, Paid time off including holidays, Health insurance coverage for you and your dependents, 401(k) and stock purchase plans, Tuition reimbursement and best-in-class training and development.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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