Senior AI Enablement Architect

Root Insurance; United States; Remote; USD 189,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Enablement Squad. You will set cross‑team direction for AI adoption, align needs from real workflows with AI Platform strategy, and lead initiatives turning learnings into reusable company capabilities.

You will shape how Root discovers and scales AI-native ways of working across teams, partner with product and data science, and mentor engineers while delivering tangible platform improvements and responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a software engineer.
• 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction across multiple teams or a meaningful functional domain.
• Deep fluency with AI tools, technologies, and application patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define how Root discovers, adopts, and scales AI-native ways of working—and make that approach practical across teams.
• Lead strategic embedded engagements that connect company priorities, user workflows, and reusable capabilities AI Platform should build next.
• Turn patterns from the field into platform strategy, architecture, and technical investments that create value.
• Design scalable engagement and adoption models that help more teams learn faster while reducing repeated effort.
• Align engineering and business leaders on the opportunities, tradeoffs, outcomes, and responsible practices that matter most.
• Unblock multi-team initiatives and establish clear ways to measure whether AI adoption is changing how Root works for the better.
• Develop engineers and technical leaders through mentorship, systems thinking, and a clear example of user-centered technical leadership.

Skills

Software engineering

Technical leadership

AI tools & patterns

Systems thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Root Insurance is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the AI Enablement Squad. You will set cross‑team direction for AI adoption, align needs from real workflows with AI Platform strategy, and lead initiatives turning learnings into reusable company capabilities.

You will shape how Root discovers and scales AI-native ways of working across teams, partner with product and data science, and mentor engineers while delivering tangible platform improvements and responsible AI practices.