Geico

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Geico$150K — $300K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field.
  • Over 10 years of professional software development experience with at least two programming languages (Java, C++, Python, or C#).
  • 10+ years designing and building multi-component AI/ML platforms using open-source/cloud-agnostic components.
  • 6+ years managing the end-to-end software development life cycle, including version control and CICD.
  • 6+ years experience with cloud providers like Azure and AWS.
  • 3+ years fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for conversational experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Own the design and architecture of scalable platform components for GenAI workflows.
  • Make key technical decisions on software technologies, balancing build vs. buy.
  • Collaborate across teams to gather requirements and define project scope.
  • Drive the strategic planning and multi-year product roadmaps for software products.
  • Lead engineering teams in platform implementation and troubleshooting.
  • Mentor engineers and junior tech leads in best practices and emerging trends.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work on innovative AI projects that support a large team of contact center employees.
  • Leadership role that impacts the technical direction of AI solutions at GEICO.
  • Collaborative work environment with cross-functional teams including data scientists and engineers.
  • Career growth through mentorship opportunities and exposure to cutting-edge technologies.
Full Job Description
GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer to join our AI org. This person will play key senior technical leadership roles in the development of Geico’s virtual agent platform that elevates the productivity and quality of service for 20K+ contact center employees in claims, service and sales operations, etc. You will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop and deploy platform that ensure productivity, scalability and usability of GenAI workflows across Geico. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of building and architecting high performance, multi-system AI/ML platforms, with hands-on experience and deep enthusiasm for Generative AI technologies. This role requires a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities:
• Technical Design & Architecture: Own design, architecture and development of multiple inter-connected high-performance, durable and scalable platform components that collectively power large sets of end-to-end GenAI agentic workflows. Examples include knowledge curation & management, search, prompt management, workflow orchestration, action execution systems, semantic knowledge graph, etc.
• System & Platform Evaluation: Own technical decisions regarding the selection and evaluation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, future extensibility, etc.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, designers to gather requirements, define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs. Establish pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcome, product release timelines and engineering excellence.
• Strategic Planning: Drive the strategic plan and multi-year product roadmaps of software & platform products, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions in conjunction of system and business dependencies.
• Technical Leadership: Lead teams of experience engineers for platform implementation. Troubleshoot and resolve complex software issues, ensuring optimal platform performance and reliability. Lead by example in tackling complex technical challenges and driving system-wide architectural improvements.
• Mentorship: Mentor and guide engineers and junior tech leads by setting up engineering best practices, foster career growth, and provide guidance in emerging technical trends and tooling. Collaborate with sr. tech leads in other department to promote enterprise-wide AI best practices and contribute to internal documentations.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field
• 10+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or C#.
• 10+ years of experience architecting, designing and building multi-component AIML platform utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engine (e.g. elastic search, Qdrant), data warehouse (e.g. snowflake), streaming platform (e.g. Kafka), relational database (e.g. postgresql), Nosql (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g. Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g. Airflow, Temporal), robotic process automation, context management, etc.
• 6+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (version control, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support etc.)
• 6+ years’ experience with cloud providers such as Azure and AWS
• 3+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude etc. to build conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer to join our AI org. This person will play key senior technical leadership roles in the development of Geico’s virtual agent platform that elevates the productivity and quality of service for 20K+ contact center employees in claims, service and sales operations, etc. You will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop and deploy platform that ensure productivity, scalability and usability of GenAI workflows across Geico. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of building and architecting high performance, multi-system AI/ML platforms, with hands-on experience and deep enthusiasm for Generative AI technologies. This role requires a minimum of 10 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities:
• Technical Design & Architecture: Own design, architecture and development of multiple inter-connected high-performance, durable and scalable platform components that collectively power large sets of end-to-end GenAI agentic workflows. Examples include knowledge curation & management, search, prompt management, workflow orchestration, action execution systems, semantic knowledge graph, etc.
• System & Platform Evaluation: Own technical decisions regarding the selection and evaluation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, future extensibility, etc.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, designers to gather requirements, define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs. Establish pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcome, product release timelines and engineering excellence.
• Strategic Planning: Drive the strategic plan and multi-year product roadmaps of software & platform products, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions in conjunction of system and business dependencies.
• Technical Leadership: Lead teams of experience engineers for platform implementation. Troubleshoot and resolve complex software issues, ensuring optimal platform performance and reliability. Lead by example in tackling complex technical challenges and driving system-wide architectural improvements.
• Mentorship: Mentor and guide engineers and junior tech leads by setting up engineering best practices, foster career growth, and provide guidance in emerging technical trends and tooling. Collaborate with sr. tech leads in other department to promote enterprise-wide AI best practices and contribute to internal documentations.

Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field
• 10+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or C#.
• 10+ years of experience architecting, designing and building multi-component AIML platform utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engine (e.g. elastic search, Qdrant), data warehouse (e.g. snowflake), streaming platform (e.g. Kafka), relational database (e.g. postgresql), Nosql (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g. Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g. Airflow, Temporal), robotic process automation, context management, etc.
• 6+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (version control, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support etc.)
• 6+ years’ experience with cloud providers such as Azure and AWS
• 3+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude etc. to build conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

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 candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.


 

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.


 

About Geico

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is an American auto insurance company with headquarters in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It is the second largest auto insurer in the United States, after State Farm. GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway that provides coverage for more than 24 million motor vehicles owned by more than 15 million policy holders as of 2017. GEICO writes private passenger automobile insurance in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The insurance agency sells policies through local agents, called GEICO Field Representatives, and over the phone directly to the consumer, and through their website.
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