60K–85K EUR / year

Senior ML Engineer

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Published on 2026-09-09
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About this role

Own machine learning projects from exploration through production and continually improve them using real-world feedback. Build and evaluate reliable agentic LLM systems for clinical care, collaborating with Product, Clinical, and Engineering stakeholders.

About the company

Sword Health is a digital musculoskeletal care company that helps employers and health plans deliver AI-powered physical therapy and related care programs.

What you'll do

  • Own ML projects end-to-end, from exploration and production deployment to ongoing iteration
  • Build agentic LLM workflows using tools, retrieval, and orchestration
  • Develop evaluation datasets, offline and online testing, LLM-as-judge workflows, human review, and regression tests
  • Improve model quality using evidence-based prompting, retrieval, distillation, or fine-tuning
  • Work across data preparation, model adaptation, serving, monitoring, and production feedback loops
  • Partner with Product, Clinical, and Engineering to translate clinical needs into technical decisions
  • Review code, share knowledge, and mentor less experienced engineers

What we're looking for

  • Experience shipping production ML systems that people depend on
  • Production LLM experience, including prompting, retrieval, tool calling, and agent-style workflows
  • Experience building evaluation datasets and frameworks and distinguishing meaningful improvements from noise
  • Strong ML fundamentals and ability to reason about technical tradeoffs
  • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into production systems
  • Production-quality engineering skills, familiarity with distributed systems, and experience debugging ML pipelines
  • Clear communication with technical and clinical stakeholders

Nice to have

  • Fine-tuning or preference optimization experience, such as RLHF or DPO
  • Healthcare AI or experience in other high-stakes domains
  • Experience building agent frameworks or evaluation tools from scratch
  • Open-source contributions, technical writing, or other knowledge sharing
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