Staff ML Engineer
Palo Alto, CA - USA
Job Summary
At GEICO we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.
When you join our company we want you to feel valued supported and proud to work here. Thats why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company Great Culture Great Rewards and Great Careers.
Overview:We are seeking an accomplished Staff ML Engineer who will serve as a technical leader for Generative AI this individual contributor role you will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design develop and deploy systems that ensure scalability reliability and usability of generative AI solutions applications and workflows across GEICO. You will provide hands-on guidance ensure architectural excellence and lead by example to solve complex large-scale cross-functional problems.
Responsibilities:
- Take responsibility for the design development and maintenance of high-performance AI solutions that use agentic workflows to deliver concrete business value for internal stakeholders and customer-facing applications. Examples include AI agent orchestration conversational AI solutions knowledge assistants process assistance and automation etc.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists ML engineers software engineers product managers and designers to gather requirements define project scope and prioritize feature development. Establish pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcomes product release timelines and engineering excellence.
- Integrate and build solutions using GEICOs AI platform architecture. Partner with platform teams to communicate requirements understand current capabilities and gaps and contribute to platform feature roadmaps and development.
- Work on first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO with a deep understanding of business and technical processes applications and architecture to guide development.
- Contribute to the selection evaluation and implementation of software technologies tools and frameworks balancing build vs. buy speed to market maintainability etc.
- Take ownership in project planning and stakeholder management driving technical alignment ensuring efficient resource allocation and timely delivery of solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture.
Basic Qualifications
- 5 years of experience designing and building scalable production AI/ML applications and systems in cloud environments
- 3 years owning end-to-end development monitoring maintenance and continuous improvement of scalable robust AI/ML applications.
- 2 years of experience with training finetuning real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AI/ML models and LLMsused in production systems
- Experience with the end-to-end software development life cycle (e.g. CI/CD pipelines Kubernetes-based deployments testing monitoring & alerting production support etc.) for Generative AI applications backend systems and APIs
- Experience using frameworks to build LLM-based agentic workflows such LangSmith/LangGraph or similar
- Experience using typical agentic communication standards such as A2A MCP and similar to build working multi-agent applications
- Proficient in Python Java or similar general-purpose programming languages.
- Bachelors degree or above in Computer Science Engineering Statistics or a related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- 3 years interfacing directly with internal business stakeholders and/or external stakeholders on AI/ML initiatives
- Extensive experience using cloud provider solutions such as Azure and AWSto deploy and maintain AI/ML products
- Experience using tools that power production-grade LLM-based AI agents such as eval frameworks agent tooling RAG pipelines prompt engineering etc.
- Experience building products with LLM-based AI agent workflows via both no code/low code and traditional high-code development environments
- Experience with agentic workflows to solve problems in the insurance domain
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic cross-functional and ambiguous decision-making environments
Annual Salary
$130000.00 - $260000.00The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include but are not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the role the selected candidates work experience education and training the work location as well as market and business considerations.
The GEICO Pledge:
Great Company:At GEICO we help our customers through lifes twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and were constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.
Were an iconic brand that thrives on innovation exceeding our customers expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one youll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on peoples lives.
Great Careers:We offer a career where you can learn grow and thrive through personalized development programs created with your career and your potential in mind. Youll have access to industry leading training certification assistance career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture:We foster an inclusive culture of shared success rooted in integrity a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values we have an an established culture of caring inclusion and belonging that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.
As part of our culture we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards:We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your familys overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race color religious creed national origin ancestry age gender pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity marital status familial status disability or genetic information in compliance with applicable federal state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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