Backend Developer + ML Engineer

As a Backend + ML Engineer at our company, you will be responsible for building scalable APIs, managing secure patient data flow, and supporting AI model integration. Your role will involve collaborating with AI engineers, front-end developers, and field researchers to operationalize models for real-time use, particularly on edge devices. Your key responsibilities will include designing and developing robust backend systems to handle real-time patient data and ML outputs, integrating machine learning models with APIs and the main O-Health app, optimizing model serving pipelines, managing data pipelines for de-identified OPD datasets, implementing data encryption and anonymization, setting up backend support for multilingual voice and text processing, and supporting versioning and A/B testing of health algorithms. To excel in this role, you should have expertise in Backend Engineering, including strong proficiency in Python with frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, or Django, experience with RESTful APIs, WebSockets, and asynchronous data flows, familiarity with databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or time-series databases, and working knowledge of Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines. Additionally, you should possess skills in Machine Learning Ops, such as hands-on experience with PyTorch, Scikit-learn, or TensorFlow, model optimization, quantization, and edge deployment formats, familiarity with language models and multilingual NLP, and knowledge of data preprocessing and feature engineering for clinical/NLP tasks. Preferred skills for this role include an understanding of HIPAA/GDPR compliance and experience working on healthcare, social impact, or AI-for-good projects. In this position, you will have a significant impact on connecting machine learning research with field-ready healthcare tools, scaling diagnosis support systems to underserved patients, and enabling multilingual health consultations in real-time. Join us in making a difference in the healthcare industry and contributing to the improvement of patient care.,