Sr Software Engineer - AI
Sr Software Engineer - AI
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Job Description
WHO WE ARE:
Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying selling and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold team up deliver value and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration serves 100 carrier clients 2500 distributors and partners and over 2 million policyholders.
WHO YOU ARE:
Zinnia continues to disrupt the insurance industry by delivering innovative technology-driven experiences. Our talented yet humble software engineering team is dogma-free and experiment-oriented. We are relentless in our drive to reliably deliver outstanding products at scale. We can go further faster with experienced collaborative challenge-seeking engineers such as yourself.
What Youll Do
- Design develop and implement advanced AI/ML solutions to solve high-impact business challenges particularly in the financial & insurance tech.
- Build and enhance platform features using React TypeScript and Python ensuring a seamless and intelligent user experience across platforms.
- Leverage LLMs and Generative AI models to build large-scale end-to-end AI solutions including code generation personalization and automation capabilities.
- Architect scalable maintainable and extensible systems that empower engineering teams to efficiently deliver high-quality products.
- Develop cross-platform production-grade solutions while learning and integrating new frameworks tools and technologies as needed.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teamsincluding product design and researchto identify opportunities that help customers secure critical financial protection and feel confident in their choices.
- Build and maintain internal AI tools and research platforms that boost productivity.
- Lead and mentor junior engineers conduct rigorous code reviews and promote best practices in software craftsmanship and AI/ML engineering.
- Architect enterprise-grade AI systems with a focus on quality performance and long-term maintainability.
What Youll Need
- Strong expertise in Python (and optionally TypeScript/JavaScript) with experience in frameworks like Django FastAPI and React for AI-enabled web applications.
- Hands-on with LLM ecosystems including Hugging Face Transformers LangChain OpenAI APIs LangSmith and Langfuse.
- Deep understanding of transformers fine-tuning techniques RLHF and inference optimization.
- Advanced knowledge of machine learning and deep learning frameworks (e.g. PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn and XG-Boost).
- Skilled in model optimization hyperparameter tuning and regularization.
- Experience with ensemble learning methods (e.g. XGBoost LightGBM) probabilistic models and ML system design.
Infrastructure & Deployment
- Experience with Kubernetes Docker serverless architectures and major cloud platforms (AWS GCP Azure).
- Designing and managing RESTful and GraphQL APIs for AI services.
- Proficient in deploying AI services using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins etc.).
- Skilled in building and integrating real-time inference pipelines and RAG architectures.
Data & Vector Systems
- Hands-on experience with vector databases (e.g. Pinecone Weaviate Milvus Qdrant Chroma).
- Strong background in both SQL (PostgreSQL MySQL BigQuery) and NoSQL (MongoDB Redis).
- Exposure to streaming data platforms and big data tools (e.g. Spark Kafka) is a plus.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Work cross-functionally with ML researchers product managers and DevOps to deliver AI solutions.
- Collaborate in Agile/Scrum teams using Git Kanban and modern development practices.
- Effectively communicate complex AI concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Stay up to date with the latest AI research and contribute to open-source projects or internal AI research initiatives.
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning or related field.
- 37 years of professional experience in AI/ML development ideally with ownership of production-level AI systems.
- Proven experience at an AI-first company or contributions to AI/ML research or open-source projects are highly desirable.
WHATS IN IT FOR YOU
At Zinnia you collaborate with smart creative professionals who are dedicated to delivering cutting-edge technologies deeper data insights and enhanced services to transform how insurance is done. Visit our website at for more information. Apply by completing the online application on the careers section of our website. We are an Equal Opportunity employer committed to a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate based on race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
