Senior Staff ML Engineer

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Overview:We are seeking an accomplished Senior 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 the organization which drive business value using LLM agentic and knowledge-search capabilities as their foundation. You bring a passion for providing hands-on guidance ensuring architectural and technical excellence and best practices serving as a source of thought leadership and leading by example to solve complex large-scale cross-functional problems.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end 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 and 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.
• Ideate define and build first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO with a deep understanding of business and technical processes applications and architecture to guide development.

• Drive 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 establish and enforce best practices and foster a collaborative and high-performance team culture.

Basic Qualifications

• 8 years of experience designing and building scalable production AI/ML applications and systems in cloud environments
• 5 years owning end-to-end development monitoring maintenance and continuous improvement of scalable robust AI/ML applications.
• 5 years of experience with training finetuning real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AI/ML models and LLMsused in production systems
• 5 years of experience managing 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 design architect and 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:

• 5 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

• Extensive 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

The 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:Protecting customers through lifes twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers:Personalized development programs mentorship and certification assistance.

Great Culture:Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards:Competitive pay benefits and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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