Divisional Artificial Intelligence Engineer III

Alliant Insurance Services; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Alliant Insurance Services is seeking a Divisional Artificial Intelligence Engineer III to lead a substantial AI platform domain, translating complex requirements into scalable architecture. You will drive model orchestration, lifecycle management, and reliable delivery across products.

You will mentor engineers, define operational readiness practices, and collaborate with product teams to reduce duplication and outages while delivering measurable improvements in latency and cost.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience.
• Experience building LLM-powered applications or AI infrastructure.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and Python.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and cloud deployment.

Responsibilities

• Owns architecture, implementation, and health for AI platform domains.
• Designs services for long-running tasks, with durability and recovery.
• Leads technical discovery with product teams.
• Mentors engineers and contributes to architectural planning.
• Produces architecture documentation and migration guidance.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

LLM / AI infra

Distributed systems

Cloud deployment

Observability

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Terraform

Job description

Divisional Artificial Intelligence Engineer III

At Alliant Insurance Services, we thrive on creating employee benefits solutions built on the idea that health makes growth possible. As top tier professionals dedicated to solving our clients' health and welfare insurance challenges, Alliant team members deliver an unrivaled depth of service, and our unique approach enables us to help clients stay resilient and turn change into opportunity. This position is a chance to join a dynamic, expanding company with prospects for individual and career growth.

As one of the 5 largest insurance brokerage firms in the U.S., Alliant provides property and casualty, workers' compensation, employee benefits, surety, and financial products and services to clients nationwide.

More information is available at www.alliant.com .

SUMMARY

Responsible for leading a substantial technical domain within the AI platform and makes it dependable for use across multiple products. Independently translates ambiguous needs into architecture and staged delivery, then remains accountable for operational performance and adoption. Raises engineering quality through technical guidance, mentorship, and practical standards for shared AI systems.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Owns architecture, implementation, and operational health for a platform domain, such as agent lifecycle and state, sandbox context exchange, model orchestration, or tracing and evaluation.

Designs services and interfaces that support long-running tasks across deployments, restarts, retries, inspection, and replay, with appropriate durability and failure recovery.

Establishes reusable patterns for context packaging and retrieval across execution environments, including clear boundaries for access, retention, and data movement.

Builds or evolves model routing and orchestration capabilities; defines measurements for quality, latency, reliability, and cost per task and uses them to guide improvements.

Leads technical discovery with product teams, identifies common needs, and prioritizes platform work that reduces duplicated engineering and unplanned interruptions.

Defines domain-level testing, tracing, evaluation, and operational readiness practices; reviews production signals and leads resolution of complex incidents in the domain.

Produces architecture documentation and migration guidance that enable engineers to adopt platform capabilities without extensive one-to-one support.

Mentors engineers, reviews designs and code, and contributes to technical planning across the AI engineering group.

Performs all duties in accordance with all company policies and procedures, and all federal, state and local laws, wherein the Company operates.

Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS / EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Five (5) or more years of software engineering experience, or equivalent practical experience, including ownership of production services.

Experience building LLM-powered applications or AI infrastructure.

SKILLS

Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python and experience designing production services and APIs

Knowledge of distributed systems, asynchronous job processing, persistence, observability, cloud deployment, and secure system design

Experience shipping and supporting LLM features, including practical tradeoffs among model behavior, latency, and cost

Ability to lead technical work from ambiguous problem definition through design, implementation, rollout, and operational improvement

Ability to make platform interfaces reusable and understandable across teams with different product needs

Ability to influence technical decisions, communicate risk and tradeoffs, and mentor engineers across experience levels

We are proud to provide comprehensive, high quality employee programs to meet employees' needs now and in the future, including a very competitive financial package. We encourage you to explore what we have to offer.

Alliant Insurance Services, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on their qualifications and ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age, genetic information, or status as a protected veteran, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including California law.

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For more information on Alliant Insurance Service's benefits, please visit www.alliant.com/about/careers/benefits