AI/ML Engineer

🏆 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.

🚀 Requirements

• 3+ 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.

Compensation & Benefits

Compensation: Competitive cash plus meaningful ESOP

Healthcare: Comprehensive medical insurance where applicable

Work setup: Hybrid

Learning: Books and courses budget

Equipment: MacBook

Performance upside: Role-based bonus or commission plan

Retreats: Company offsites 1 to 2 times per year

Visa and travel: Support for business travel and visa processes where needed

About Curacel

• Our Mission

  Our vision is prosperity & opportunity for everyone. Our mission is to make financial services, starting with risk protection and healthcare, seamless, intelligent, and accessible.

  We build AI that helps insurers, TPAs, banks, and providers automate work, reduce fraud, and deliver better experiences at scale.

  We are building an AI agent platform that lets financial and health organizations deploy safe, useful agents for real operations. Brands plug in modern claims, compliance, and payment flows and go live quickly across markets.

  Curacel is trusted by leading insurers, including AXA, Liberty, Old Mutual, and Jubilee. Teams use Curacel to cut cycle times and process more claims with real time decisioning. We serve 40 insurers across the Middle East & Africa.

  By 2035, our infrastructure will serve hundreds of millions of people. As agentic AI matures, we will use our rails with insurers, banks, and providers to deliver next generation financial protection and healthcare access at scale.

  We have grown rapidly since launch, serving customers across multiple countries with strong retention and millions in annual revenue. We have raised million dollars from leading investors including Y Combinator, Google, Tencent, etc

• 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

• Multiple Choice Question Test (to assess general knowledge of php and javascript)
• Actual Coding Test (Could be Take home or Online )
• Coding submission review
• Trial
• Decision