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# Senior Machine Learning (ML) Engineer (AI Insurtech) at EvolutionIQ

- **Company:** EvolutionIQ
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/evolutioniq/jobs/6135244004

## Job description

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](https://www.evolutioniq.com/resources/evolutioniqs-award-winning-culture-three-years-running-as-an-inc-best-workplace) 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

Even Better if You Have the following:

- Knowledge of Dagster, BigQuery, Vertex AI, GCP, Terraform, Spark, Kubernetes
- Owned and deployed, and maintained model-serving pipelines in production
- Expert skills at writing clean, efficient, and easy-to-understand code with unit tests and functional design patterns
- Experience with advanced statistical modeling, especially probabilistic programming
- Ambitious, collaborative, and empathetic values
- A work style that is open to giving and receiving critical feedback and collaborating effectively across teams

Work-life, Culture & Perks:

- Compensation: The base salary range is $190-225K, with flexibility depending on a candidate’s background and experience. An annual bonus plan and company equity plan (RSUs) are also included in our compensation package.
- Well-Being: Medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability, life insurance and AD&D, and 401k matching. Additional family, wellness, and pet benefits.
- Home & Family: Paid time off and sick leave, 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers). We offer a flexible schedule for new parents returning to work.
- Office Life: Catered lunches, happy hours, pet-friendly spaces, and monthly technology stipend.
- Growth & Training: $1,000/year for each employee for professional development, as well opportunities for tuition reimbursement.
- Sponsorship: We are open to sponsoring candidates currently in the U.S. who need to transfer their active visa. Please check with our Recruiting team if your visa is applicable for transfer.

EvolutionIQ appreciates your interest in our company as a place of employment. EvolutionIQ is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

## About EvolutionIQ

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: EvolutionIQ provides an AI-powered claims guidance platform that helps insurance claims professionals make faster, more accurate decisions for disability and workers’ compensation claims.
- **Entity Type**: Private (acquired by public company CCC Intelligent Solutions, NASDAQ: CCCS, for $730 million in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Karan Uppal (CEO) and Tomas Vykruta (President)

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Insurance technology (disability and workers’ compensation claims), AI-driven SaaS
- **Target Customers**: B2B – large enterprise insurance carriers (disability, workers’ comp, auto casualty)
- **Mission**: Deliver state-of-the-art AI that helps insurance claims teams make claims handling more accurate, fair, and efficient, enabling injured or ill individuals to continue their lives with dignity and stability.

## Products & Services
- **Claim Guidance Platform**: An explainable AI system that guides claims professionals with next best action recommendations, improving decision quality and claim outcomes for disability and workers’ compensation lines.
- **Medical Summarization Platform**: Generative AI that summarizes medical documentation to accelerate decisions and drive next best actions across life, accident, and casualty lines.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Acquired for $730 million (60% cash, 40% CCCS stock) – deal closed Q1 2025. Parent company CCCS has a market cap of approximately $7 billion.
- **Key Metric**: Acquisition price of $730 million; serves 7 of the top 15 U.S. disability carriers.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: CCC Intelligent Solutions (parent company); customers include major U.S. disability and workers’ compensation carriers.
- **Growth Signals**: 100% successful deployment rate; average program ROI of 8-10x; team grown to nearly 200 employees across the U.S., Europe, and Australia.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Pioneer in Claims Guidance**: First to market with AI-powered next best action recommendations specifically for disability and injury claims.
- **Explainable AI**: Models are designed to be interpretable by claims professionals, building trust and regulatory compliance.
- **Proven ROI**: Measurable improvements in claim outcomes and cost savings, with high adoption among top carriers.
- **Post-Acquisition Stability**: Backed by CCC’s established platform and financial resources while retaining startup agility.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the claims guidance platform across CCC’s installed base of 35,000+ companies.
- Expand into auto casualty and property & casualty lines.
- Continue independent AI innovation in disability and workers’ comp while leveraging CCC’s distribution and operational infrastructure.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Recognized as an Inc. Best Workplace (2022–2024) and Built In Best Places to Work (2025–2026). Transparent, collaborative, and fast-moving startup culture within a larger public company.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid schedule with a Soho, NYC office. Flexible PTO, pet-friendly office, free lunches, and annual retreats (e.g., Puerto Rico, Catskills).
- **Benefits**: 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks primary, 12 weeks secondary), comprehensive medical/dental/vision, 401k matching, $1,000/year professional development budget, tuition reimbursement, and RSU equity.
- **Engineering & Product**: Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI that directly impacts millions of lives. High ownership, rapid iteration, and a bias toward over-communication.

## Sources
1. [evolutioniq.com](https://www.evolutioniq.com/about) – Company overview, mission, team, culture, benefits.
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/evolution-iq) – Employee count, description, open roles.
3. [cccis.com](https://www.cccis.com/news-and-insights/posts/ccc-intelligent-solutions-announces-the-acquisition-of-evolutioniq-the-leading-ai-guidance-platform-for-disability-and-injury-claims-management) – Acquisition details and market reach.
4. [greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/evolutioniq/jobs/5973506004) – Salary range, benefits, and role details.

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