Lead AI Engineer — Production Agent Systems (Insurance)

Vertafore; Denver (CO); Vor Ort; USD 175.000 - 210.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Vertafore is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate AI systems powering our next generation of insurance software products. You will build production-grade agents that can reason through complex, multi-step insurance workflows, and you will be responsible for making those systems reliable, measurable, and safe in a highly regulated industry.

You will work in small pods with complete agency to build end-to-end products.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, backend services in Python.
• 2+ years building and shipping LLM-powered applications or agentic systems to production.
• Hands-on production experience with LangGraph or comparable frameworks.
• 5+ years designing and building RESTful APIs (FastAPI preferred).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and deploy complex reasoning agents and multi-agent systems for production workloads using LangGraph and related Python orchestration frameworks.
• Architect agent workflows, including state management, tool use, memory, planning, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, error recovery, and fallback behavior.
• Design and build clean, well-documented APIs exposing AI capabilities to Vertafore products and external partners.
• Define and own evaluation strategy for AI systems, including datasets, graders, and evaluation results.
• Set up regression testing for prompts, models, and agent behavior to ensure measurable confidence.
• Instrument AI systems for observability: tracing, latency, cost, token usage, failures, quality metrics.

Kenntnisse

Python

ML fundamentals

LLM behavior

Experimentation

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

LangGraph

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Docker

FastAPI

Jobbeschreibung

Vertafore is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to design, build, and operate AI systems powering our next generation of insurance software products. You will build production-grade agents that can reason through complex, multi-step insurance workflows, and you will be responsible for making those systems reliable, measurable, and safe in a highly regulated industry.

You will work in small pods with complete agency to build end-to-end products.