Machine Learning Engineer
US$225,000 / yr base salary
Posted 5 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior Machine Learning (ML) Engineer (AI Insurtech)”
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- Expected experience
- 2+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Remote
- Visa sponsorship
- Offered
| Base salary | US$225,000 / yr |
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About Us: EvolutionIQ’s mission is to deliver state of the art technology that helps insurance claims teams make claims handling more accurate, fair, and efficient, so that more people impacted by injury or illness can continue their lives with dignity and stability. We are currently experiencing massive growth and to accomplish our goals, we are hiring world-class talent who want to help build and scale internally, and transform the insurance space. Our team is our #1 priority, and we have been named one of Inc.’s Best Workplaces 3 years in a row and Built In’s Best Places to work in 2025 and 2026!
About You: A Senior Machine Learning Engineer who thrives on first principles problems that no one has ever worked on before. You love innovation and making an immediate impact, and are constantly driving toward launch and delivery thanks to your high degree of ownership and control. You love working on new and challenging problems, not incremental or marginal improvements, and you're supercharged by having interesting, unsolved problems continually present themselves.
In this Role, You Will:
- Build ML models for production use
- Perform in-depth exploratory data analysis to scope ML opportunities, identify potential issues in the data, and lay the groundwork for model design, training & evaluation strategies
- Suggest and implement new features to improve model performance and business logic
- Write and review production-quality PRs daily
- Translate client business problems into ML problems
- Build scalable machine learning models for claim time series forecasting and NLP text understanding
- Continue to grow and learn in the data & ML space with a focus on business problems that require making sense of large-scale structured and unstructured datasets
Requirements:
- 2+ years of experience as a Machine Learning Engineer or Data Scientist, preferably in highly scalable production environments.
- You have deep exposure to data science & ML tech stacks (sklearn, Keras / PyTorch, tuning frameworks), data analysis & modeling, feel at home in Python/Pandas/Jupyter, and strive for scalable technical concepts and solutions.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and can effectively correspond between technical and non-technical audiences.
- You’re a team player who is solutions-oriented.
- Experience leveraging Claude Code and related tools is a strong plus