Generative AI Tech Lead - Senior ML Engineer

Government Employees Insurance Company; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff ML Engineer to lead Generative AI initiatives in Palo Alto, focusing on scalable AI solutions and cross-functional collaboration. You will guide architecture, ensure best practices, and deliver agentic workflows that drive measurable business value across internal and customer-facing applications.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, production-grade LLMs, secure cloud deployments, and mentorship of junior engineers to foster technical excellence and

Qualifications

• 8+ years designing and building scalable production AI/ML applications 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 LLMs used in production systems.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field.

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.
• 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 GEICO’s AI platform architecture.

Skills

Python

Java

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

LLM/AI/ML

CI/CD

Multi-agent systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or related field

Tools

LangSmith

LangGraph

Azure

AWS

eval frameworks

agent tooling

RAG pipelines

prompt engineering

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff ML Engineer to lead Generative AI initiatives in Palo Alto, focusing on scalable AI solutions and cross-functional collaboration. You will guide architecture, ensure best practices, and deliver agentic workflows that drive measurable business value across internal and customer-facing applications.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, production-grade LLMs, secure cloud deployments, and mentorship of junior engineers to foster technical excellence and