Senior AI Platform Engineer — GenAI & MLOps Expert

CNA Financial Corporation; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

CNA Financial Corporation is seeking an experienced AI/ML Platform Engineer to drive the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise AI capabilities for financial services. You will lead platform standards, orchestrate multi-agent workflows, and ensure safety, governance, and regulatory alignment across the SDLC.

Reporting typically to senior leadership, this role requires deep hands-on expertise with Python, GCP (Vertex AI, GKE, BigQuery), and scalable AI infra.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering and delivery on large distributed systems.
• 5+ years building AI/ML or GenAI platform capabilities in production.
• Strong Python and deep GCP experience; hands-on work in a team.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and promote platform standards and reusable templates.
• Lead end-to-end delivery of new platform capabilities.
• Operate core platform services: LLM gateway, RAG pipelines, vector stores.
• Develop CI/CD and AIOps pipelines for AI systems.
• Implement multi-agent/workflow patterns with safe autonomy.

Skills

Python proficiency

GCP expertise

AI/ML platform design

Communication skills

SDLC experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's degree preferred in AI/ML/Data Science

Tools

Vertex AI

GKE

BigQuery

Job description

CNA Financial Corporation is seeking an experienced AI/ML Platform Engineer to drive the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise AI capabilities for financial services. You will lead platform standards, orchestrate multi-agent workflows, and ensure safety, governance, and regulatory alignment across the SDLC.

Reporting typically to senior leadership, this role requires deep hands-on expertise with Python, GCP (Vertex AI, GKE, BigQuery), and scalable AI infra.