Senior ML Engineer

Who we are:Each year, 2 billion people across the world are limited by physical pain. By helping people live without pain, they are free to do the things they love most with the people they love—and never miss a moment. This is what we do. We create and design new technologies to solve one of the biggest problems in healthcare: taking care of our Physical Health. Sword Health is the world’s fastest growing digital musculoskeletal (MSK) care provider on a bold mission to free two billion people from acute, chronic, and post-surgical physical pain . Our customers include some of the most progressive Fortune 100 and 500 companies, as well as over 160+ other established businesses across the world.       The Sword program allows members to complete a personalized physical therapy program from the comfort of home, with continued support and supervision from one of our talented SWORD specialists. Sword’s personalized care is more effective than traditional standards of care, and has proven to deliver best-in-class clinical results. Since breaking into the market less than two years ago, Sword has worked with insurers, health systems, and employers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia to make high quality musculoskeletal care accessible to everyone. This is an opportunity to join Sword during a time of hyper growth and expansion. After our recent $2bn valuation, we’re excited to continue accelerating our impact by scaling with high caliber people with passion, commitment and energy to create and deliver technologies, services and products that drive human progress forward.    We welcome you to join our mission, to make a difference on a grand scale and play a pivotal role with a global team at Sword– working alongside great people pioneering novel products and cutting edge technologies.  



Our AI team is responsible for bringing forth initiatives that will ultimately enable Sword to treat billions of people with high clinical effectiveness. They thrive at the productisation of Machine Learning features and certainly enjoy the Software development that comes with it.
How the team has recently contributed towards Sword’s mission:- Decision support system for clinical prescription management;- Ranking system to direct attention to members requiring assistance

What you'll be doing:

• Contribute to designing, building, evaluating, shipping, and improving Sword’s products by hands-on AI/ML development;
• Develop and maintain data processing pipelines for getting the data required to build and evaluate models;
• Work alongside the Product, Data & Engineering Teams to define and implement AI/ML-powered features for internal and external users;
• Share your knowledge and experience of how to build ML systems;
• Help grow the AI/ML function by defining and promoting best practices;
• Identify and spearhead initiatives for adding AI/ML capabilities to Sword’s products by navigating uncertainty and time-to-value tradeoffs.

What you need to have:

• 4+ years of professional experience in Machine Learning;
• Hands-on experience implementing and maintaining machine learning systems;
• Solid experience in SQL and Python as well as experience developing production software;
• Working knowledge of Python data stack (numpy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn, etc);
• Experience leading and owning complex and ambiguous projects from ideation to completion/maintenance;
• Experience providing technical oversight and mentoring colleagues;
• Ability to learn quickly and dive deep into new problems and fields;
• Ability to communicate concepts clearly and interface with both technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Critical thinking & self-direction: aware of the team’s direction and goals, you prioritize and solve issues accordingly.

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and wearing different hats;
• Experience building data processing pipelines;
• Experience using cloud platforms like GCP or AWS.

We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.  We champion diversity and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.  At SWORD, we believe that diversity and inclusion among our applicants and teammates is critical to our success as a global company.  The more inclusive we are the better our work will be. 
Sword Benefits - PortugalHealth, dental and vision InsuranceMeal AllowanceEquity Shares
Sword Perks - PortugalPhone StipendFlexible working hoursWork from homeUnlimited VacationFree Digital Therapist for your familySnacks and BeveragesEnglish Class