Senior AI/ML Engineer

Our Mission Curacel’s mission is to make risk protection seamless and intelligent for businesses and individuals worldwide. Every year, billions of dollars are lost to inefficiencies in risk and healthcare management. We are building AI-powered infrastructure to transform how insurance and healthcare are delivered—making them faster, smarter, and more accessible. Our Vision We envision a future where AI—especially agentic AI—empowers businesses, insurers, and healthcare providers to deliver protection and care with unprecedented speed and intelligence. Our Team We are a team of ambitious, mission-driven innovators across commercial, product, engineering, and operations. Our 30+ "Excellers" work across multiple countries, powering global insurers like AXA, Tawuniya, Allianz in 15+ markets. Our Investors Backed by Y Combinator, Google, Tencent, and other leading investors, we are shaping the future of AI in healthcare and insurance. Our Technology Curacel is building AI and API-driven infrastructure for insurance and healthcare, leveraging advanced machine learning and generative AI to automate processes, detect fraud, and optimize decision-making. Our API-first approach enables seamless integration with insurers, TPAs, and healthcare platforms, ensuring real-time data exchange and continuous model improvements. 🏆 Objective Build, and operationalize scalable AI/ML solutions that power Curacel’s core insurance products—automating claims adjudication, detecting fraud, and enhancing customer engagement—while collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into high-impact technical deliverables. This role aims to accelerate Curacel’s growth in emerging markets by driving continuous improvement of model performance, ensuring robust production deployments, and upholding the highest standards of data privacy, security, and ethical AI. 🥷🏽 How you'll help us achieve it You will; Develop, optimize, and maintain AI/ML models and pipelines for Curacel’s insurance products Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical AI solutions. Deploy machine learning models in production environments with robust monitoring and performance tuning. Perform data analysis, feature engineering, and experimentation to improve model accuracy and reliability. Participate in code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing to promote best practices across the AI engineering team. Stay current with AI research and emerging technologies relevant to insurance and healthcare applications. Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable cloud-based AI services on AWS and Google Cloud. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving AI system issues and production incidents. Work in an agile environment, delivering incremental improvements and iterative prototypes. Engage in mentoring junior engineers and collaborating on team skill development. Develop, optimize, and maintain AI/ML models and pipelines for Curacel’s insurance products Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and translate them into technical AI solutions. Deploy machine learning models in production environments with robust monitoring and performance tuning. Perform data analysis, feature engineering, and experimentation to improve model accuracy and reliability. Participate in code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing to promote best practices across the AI engineering team. Stay current with AI research and emerging technologies relevant to insurance and healthcare applications. Contribute to the design and implementation of scalable cloud-based AI services on AWS and Google Cloud. Assist in troubleshooting and resolving AI system issues and production incidents. Work in an agile environment, delivering incremental improvements and iterative prototypes. Engage in mentoring junior engineers and collaborating on team skill development. 🚀 Requirements 5+ years of professional experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering with AI focus. Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn). Experience with data engineering tools and ETL pipelines. Hands-on experience deploying machine learning models to production using cloud platforms Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, model evaluation, and feature engineering. Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus. Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision techniques is advantageous. Knowledge of healthcare or insurance domain data and regulatory constraints is a plus. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote-first, collaborative environment with distributed teams. Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing priorities, and take ownership. 5+ years of professional experience in AI/ML engineering or software engineering with AI focus. Strong programming skills in Python and experience with ML frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn). Experience with data engineering tools and ETL pipelines. Hands-on experience deploying machine learning models to production using cloud platforms Solid understanding of machine learning algorithms, model evaluation, and feature engineering. Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) is a plus. Familiarity with natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision techniques is advantageous. Knowledge of healthcare or insurance domain data and regulatory constraints is a plus. Comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote-first, collaborative environment with distributed teams. Demonstrated ability to learn quickly, adapt to changing priorities, and take ownership. Key details Health insurance 14 day vacation per year Monthly data allowance Health insurance 14 day vacation per year Monthly data allowance About Curacel Our Mission Our mission is to make it easy and pleasant to drive up insurance inclusion in emerging markets using technology. More than 3 billion people all over the world are not protected from the risks they face in their daily life. These people try to build a successful life for themselves and their families, but any of those risks can set them back by years. Our Product We are building the rails to make insurance work for the next billion people in emerging markets. Curacel creates APIs that enable insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and to administer their claims cost effectively. Curacel Grow- Add insurance to any product Curacel Health- Process insurance claims faster & Detect fraud in claims process Curacel Pay- Process insurance payment flows Curacel Auto- Revolutionising motor insurance with cutting-edge AI Our Team Young, Ambitious & Passionate 30+ odd product, engineering, biz & ops Curalytes in 4 countries Empowering 15+ insurers (AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual) in 10 markets Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Google, Tencent and many more great investors Our Mission Our mission is to make it easy and pleasant to drive up insurance inclusion in emerging markets using technology. More than 3 billion people all over the world are not protected from the risks they face in their daily life. These people try to build a successful life for themselves and their families, but any of those risks can set them back by years. Our Product We are building the rails to make insurance work for the next billion people in emerging markets. Curacel creates APIs that enable insurers to connect with digital distribution channels and to administer their claims cost effectively. Curacel Grow- Add insurance to any product Curacel Health- Process insurance claims faster & Detect fraud in claims process Curacel Pay- Process insurance payment flows Curacel Auto- Revolutionising motor insurance with cutting-edge AI Curacel Grow- Add insurance to any product Curacel Health- Process insurance claims faster & Detect fraud in claims process Curacel Pay- Process insurance payment flows Curacel Auto- Revolutionising motor insurance with cutting-edge AI Curacel Grow- Add insurance to any product Curacel Health- Process insurance claims faster & Detect fraud in claims process Curacel Pay- Process insurance payment flows Curacel Auto- Revolutionising motor insurance with cutting-edge AI Our Team Young, Ambitious & Passionate 30+ odd product, engineering, biz & ops Curalytes in 4 countries Empowering 15+ insurers (AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual) in 10 markets Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Google, Tencent and many more great investors Young, Ambitious & Passionate 30+ odd product, engineering, biz & ops Curalytes in 4 countries Empowering 15+ insurers (AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual) in 10 markets Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Google, Tencent and many more great investors Young, Ambitious & Passionate 30+ odd product, engineering, biz & ops Curalytes in 4 countries Empowering 15+ insurers (AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual) in 10 markets Backed by Y Combinator (W22), Google, Tencent and many more great investors Our Tech Stack The technologies that we use include, but are not limited to: PHP, Laravel VueJs, AngularJs React Native Electron MySql, MS SQL AWS & GCP Docker, k8s PHP, Laravel VueJs, AngularJs React Native Electron MySql, MS SQL AWS & GCP Docker, k8s