Job Vacancy ML/Backend Engineer
United States of America
INVESTIGO
Job position ML/Backend Engineer
As soon as possible
180k-195k $US
2 to 5 years experience
United States of America
Published on 12/01/2026
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Work with an AI company in healthcare.
They have trained their own LLMs as part of Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.
Why Join Tehm
Location- Palo Alto, CA office.
We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week, unless otherwise specified.
Benefits: 401 k, Equity, Lunch provided (On site job)
About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity waiting for you—apply today and take the next step in your career!
The IN group is here to support you specifically with the recruitment and hiring process for job opportunities. Our role is focused on guiding you through these steps. If you have any questions related to your application or next steps in the hiring process, Apply, and please feel free to reach out.
ML/Backend Research Engineer @
At Investigo, we make recruitment feel easy.
Let’s keep this simple. We’re all about your success, as your success is our business. We are part of The IN Group, a collection of six award-winning specialist brands that supply the globe with end-to-end talent solutions. With recruitment at the core of our business, we’ve been connecting people since 2003.
Data & Privacy
By applying, you consent to Investigo collecting and processing your data for the purpose of recruitment and placement, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Notice at weareinvestigo.com.
Work with an AI company in healthcare.
They have trained their own LLMs as part of Polaris constellation, resulting in a system with over 99.9% accuracy.
Why Join Tehm
- Reinvent healthcare with AI that puts safety first.
- Work with the people shaping the future.
- Backed by the world’s leading healthcare and AI investors.
- Build alongside the best in healthcare and AI.
Location- Palo Alto, CA office.
We believe the best ideas happen together. To support fast collaboration and a strong team culture, this role is expected to be in our Palo Alto office five days a week, unless otherwise specified.
Benefits: 401 k, Equity, Lunch provided (On site job)
About the Role
- Build the next generation of voice agents
- Work with an interdisciplinary team
- Develop a highly scalable infrastructure for LLM processing
- Develop and maintain scalable backend systems to support high-performance AI applications in healthcare.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists and ML engineers, to design and build efficient data pipelines for large-scale healthcare datasets.
- Build and manage APIs and microservices that enable smooth data retrieval, processing, and interaction with AI models.
- Monitor and improve backend systems to optimize performance, reliability, and uptime.
- Work closely with product managers to understand healthcare requirements and help transform them into technical solutions.
- Develop and optimize backend infrastructure supporting data ingestion, feature extraction, and tagging workflows.
- Implement tag management and metadata systems to streamline dataset organization and retrieval.
- Contribute to end-to-end ML workflows, integrating data preparation, training, evaluation, and deployment into reproducible pipelines.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. (Master's is preferred)
- 5+ years of experience in backend development using programming languages like Python, Golang, or similar.
- Experience building and maintaining multi-modal data pipelines (speech, vision, and text) using Ray or Apache Airflow for distributed processing and model experimentation.
- Distributed computing with Spark, Hadoop, or similar.
- Familiarity with relational database systems and RESTful APIs.
- Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GCP).
- Exposure to AI/ML concepts or experience working with LLMs.
- Experience working in teams that handle sensitive or regulated data.
- Familiarity with gRPC, graphQL or similar .
- Experience with real-time audio.
- Exposure to DevOps concepts - CI/CD, deployment, terraform, build systems.
- Experience with data science.
We have an exciting opportunity waiting for you—apply today and take the next step in your career!
The IN group is here to support you specifically with the recruitment and hiring process for job opportunities. Our role is focused on guiding you through these steps. If you have any questions related to your application or next steps in the hiring process, Apply, and please feel free to reach out.
ML/Backend Research Engineer @
At Investigo, we make recruitment feel easy.
Let’s keep this simple. We’re all about your success, as your success is our business. We are part of The IN Group, a collection of six award-winning specialist brands that supply the globe with end-to-end talent solutions. With recruitment at the core of our business, we’ve been connecting people since 2003.
Data & Privacy
By applying, you consent to Investigo collecting and processing your data for the purpose of recruitment and placement, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. For more information, please refer to our Privacy Notice at weareinvestigo.com.
London, England, United Kingdom
250 - 999 employees
Recruitment agency
With a team of over 230+ experienced consultants and offices in London, Amsterdam, Guildford, Milton Keynes, St Albans, New York and Philadelphia. Investigo offer Executive, Interim and Permanent recruitment solutions to a diverse range of blue chip companies and SMEs.
Our current areas of specialisation include:
Accountancy and Finance
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Business Change and Transformation
Financial Crime, Risk and Compliance
Human Resources and Talent Management
Pharma and Life Sciences
Procurement
Property, Facilities and Workplace
Public Sector Consulting
SAP
Strategy Consulting
Technology
Our Purpose
We believe that what we do can make a difference for the benefit of our candidates, our clients and our people. In the world of recruitment our purpose is to make a difference.
Our Mission
To create a brand synonymous with the sourcing of both interim and permanent talent in the professional services arena
To be a market leader in each one of our chosen specialisms by 2022
For us to provide a platform where you can realise your true potential
To provide a reward scheme which recognises high performance and over achievement
For Culture, Reward and Progression to be at the heart of everything we do
Our Values
The values which define us include:
Expertise - we add value by asking the right questions, sharing market insights and offering expert advice
Passion - we genuinely love what we do and have fun doing it
Integrity - we always do what we think is right and we are committed to being open and honest in all of our dealings
Inclusivity - we value and empower the diverse contributions everybody makes
We look forward to working with you.
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