Software Engineer or Senior Engineer (AI / LLM)

About Us: EvolutionIQ’s mission is to improve the lives of injured and disabled workers and enable them to return to the workforce, saving billions of dollars in avoidable costs and lost productivity to the US and global economies and make insurance more affordable for everyone. 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!

The Adventure: We're the leading AI Guidance Platform in the insurance industry today, working with some of the largest insurance carriers in the US and expanding globally. We are growing incredibly fast and have a nearly 100% success record in converting pilots to production deployments. You will be designing on a shared, unified platform that can scale across multiple lines of business. Our engineering culture values simplicity, core engineering principles, quality, honesty, transparency and strong collaboration. If you’re excited to work on a fast-moving enterprise engineering team using the latest technologies at high scale, we want to meet you.

About You: An ambitious AI engineer, you will have the opportunity to make a large impact on our industry-leading medical synthesis product. You display a high degree of ownership and have a history of driving projects to completion from ideation through deployment. You enjoy working at a fast-paced startup and excel in that environment. You stay up to date on the latest AI research and are excited by the idea of incorporating it to provide better outcomes for users.

In this Role You Will:

• Design, build, and deploy AI features to an industry-leading claim synthesis product, including extracting key information from complex medical documents and a human-in-the-loop summarization system
• Write scalable code and improve the performance of existing systems
• Collaborate with data labelers and subject matter experts to evaluate and continuously improve the performance of AI systems
• Work closely with Product counterparts to rapidly iterate on user feedback
• Translate cutting-edge research into production-grade solutions. Turn the latest advancements in AI into scalable, high-impact systems that operate seamlessly in live customer environments

Skills Requirements:

• 3+ years experience writing performant Python code that follows modern best practices
• At least 1 year building and deploying LLM-based products in a fast-paced, professional environment
• Experience building API integrations and working within a service-oriented architecture
• Exhibited ability to evaluate LLM outputs in novel ways that strongly align with business outcomes and user preferences
• Expert at prompt engineering

Bonus Points:

• Experience translating state-of-the-art research papers into production code
• Accustomed to collaborating with data labelers and SMEs
• Experience building production agentic systems
• Experience working with non-text modalities (images, audio, etc.)

Work-life, Culture & Perks: 

• Compensation: The salary range for Engineer is $165-185K, and 185-210K for Senior Engineer with flexibility, plus meaningful equity plan
• Well-Being: Full medical, dental, vision, short- & long-term disability, 401k matching. 100% of the employee contribution up to 3% and 50% of the next 2%
• Home & Family: Flexible PTO, 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers), sick days, paid time off. For new parents returning to work we offer a flexible schedule. We also offer sleep training to help you and your family navigate life schedules with a newborn
• Office Life: Catered lunches, happy hours, pet-friendly spaces, and home office stipend.
• Growth & Training: $1,000/year for each employee for professional development, as well as upskilling opportunities internally
• Sponsorship: We are open to sponsoring candidates currently in the U.S. who need to transfer their active H1-B visa

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