ML Engineer

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Job Description

ML Engineer 3M Health Care is now Solventum. At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue. We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You'll Make in this Role As an ML Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the pipelines that power AI in our Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). We are looking for a practical, detail-oriented engineer who is passionate about MLOps, data reliability, and production stability. In this role, you won't just be building models; you will be ensuring those models work reliably in the real world. You will help bridge the gap between data science and software engineering by implementing automated workflows, managing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring our AI services are secure and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• MLOps & Deployment Pipeline Development: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for machine learning, focusing on automated testing, model deployment, and version control (using tools like MLflow or Git).
• Model Serving: Deploy ML models as scalable APIs and microservices, ensuring they meet performance and latency requirements for clinical use.
• Monitoring: Implement basic monitoring tools to track model performance, data drift, and system health in production.
• Data Engineering & Integration Data Pipelines: Develop and optimize ETL processes to transform healthcare data (FHIR, HL7) into clean, usable datasets for model training and inference.
• Feature Management: Help build and maintain feature stores and data layers that ensure consistency between training and production environments.
• System Integration: Work closely with backend teams to integrate ML outputs into our core healthcare applications.
• Engineering Best Practices: Write clean, maintainable, and well-documented Python code. Participate in code reviews to ensure system reliability.
• Containerization: Use Docker and Kubernetes to package and orchestrate ML workloads across different environments.
• Security & Compliance: Follow established protocols to ensure all data handling and deployments meet HIPAA and HITRUST security standards.

Your Skills and Expertise

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of professional experience in software engineering or data engineering, with at least 2 years focused on machine learning production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and familiarity with SQL.
• Knowledge of a compiled language (like Go or Java) is a plus.
• Hands- on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and containerization (Docker).
• Familiarity with ML libraries (PyTorch or Scikit-learn) and MLOps tools (like Airflow, Prefect, BentoML, or Kubeflow).
• Experience with data processing frameworks (like Pandas, Spark, or dbt).
• Familiarity with deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) or using frameworks like LangChain.
• Experience working in a regulated environment (Healthcare, Finance, etc.).
• Understanding of API design and microservices architecture.

Work location

Remote Travel: May include up to 10% domestic. Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H1B status).

Supporting Your Well-being

• Solventum offers many programs to help you live your best life - both physically and financially.

Onboarding Requirement

To improve the onboarding experience, you will have an opportunity to meet with your manager and other new employees as part of the Solventum new employee orientation. As a result, new employees hired for this position will be required to travel to a designated company location for on-site onboarding during their initial days of employment. Travel arrangements and related expenses will be coordinated and paid for by the company in accordance with its travel policy. Applies to new hires with a start date of October 1st 2025 or later.

Responsibilities of this position include that corporate policies, procedures and security standards are complied with while performing assigned duties.

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Solventum is an equal opportunity employer. Solventum will not discriminate against any applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Solventum is an equal opportunity employer.

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Company Profile

A new healthcare company with a rich history. With more than 70 years of delivering healthcare innovations, we continue to move the industry forward by helping to solve our customers’ biggest challenges. 20,000+ employees worldwide. Solventum relies on the courage and the boundless insights of professionals worldwide to achieve exceptional results for our customers and those who rely on them. Healthcare that leads with heart and humility starts with listening and never finishes, only evolves. As long as healthcare challenges remain unsolved, we will be here, united by empathy and a relentless belief that countless lives are improved through our work. Operations in 38 countries. Driven by our dedication to improved outcomes for all we serve, we break through by making unprecedented connections that impact lives. In more than 300 offices and facilities around the world, we work closely with customers and partners to create positive healthcare outcomes that transcend borders. To realize our shared vision, we harness diverse talents and perspectives from every background to not only address our customers' most urgent priorities but anticipate the needs of the future.