Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer

    United States
    Full-Time
    Senior (7+ yrs)
    Engineering & Development
    Posted on July 30, 2026

    We are looking for an experienced Senior AI/ML Platform Engineer who is eager to build the platforms, infrastructure and services necessary to deliver ML and generative AI based products that make a significant impact within the organization. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about taking ownership of their work, spearheading cross-functional projects, and providing guidance and mentorship to other team members.

    Lyra is for you if you

    • Thrive on working with brilliant teammates to solve complex, meaningful problems

    • Are passionate about making a social impact and supporting people at their most challenging moments

    • Enjoy cross-functional collaboration with therapists, data scientists, engineers and product managers

    In this role, you will

    • Be part of a team working on building our machine learning and generative AI platforms that will be used by teams across the company

    • Create the necessary backend infrastructure to enable scalable, resilient and highly performant solutions

    • Build services that expose machine learning and AI based products

    • Deploy and manage various applications in production

    • And of course, you will be coding every day!

    We are looking for someone with:
  1. 4+ years of experience delivering production ready products

  2. Ability to write high-quality code in Python

  3. Experience with modern async Python web frameworks (e.g., FastAPI) and handling data streaming (WebSockets, Server-Sent Events)

  4. Experience working with Docker and deploying applications to Kubernetes

  5. Experience with relational and low-latency databases

  6. Experience building RAG based AI solutions

  7. Experience setting up and maintaining vector databases

  8. Familiarity with LLM orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) and integrating with foundation model APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock)

  9. A desire to learn new technologies quickly

  10. A love of building systems from scratch

  11. A thoughtful approach to balancing quality and deadlines in fast-paced settings

  12. Excellent communication skills with a talent for building consensus and alignment

  13. Strong organizational skills and the ability to distill complex problems into clear priorities that move the team and business forward

  14. Nice to haves:
  15. Experience with Graph Databases (e.g., Neo4j, AWS Neptune) and integrating them into AI/Knowledge systems (e.g., GraphRAG)

  16. Experience with LLM observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Langfuse) to track latency, token usage, and output quality.

  17. Experience working with Celery

  18. Experience defining and using Protobuf messages

  19. Experience writing production code in Java/Kotlin

  20. Experience building solutions on cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS

  21. Experience working with highly sensitive data in a healthcare environment

  22. Company:  Lyra Health

    Provides AI-powered workforce mental health benefits, transforming access to life-changing mental health care through provider matching and personalized support.
    1001-5000 employees
    Healthcare & Life Sciences
    HQ: United States