Senior GenAI Platform Architect and Technical Leader

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

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer to lead the GenAI platform design and deployment for a large-scale agentic workflow system supporting 20K+ contact center employees. You will architect, implement and optimize high-performance AI/ML components and collaborate across data science, software, and product teams.

You will drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and champion enterprise AI best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or C#.
• 10+ years of experience architecting, designing and building multi-component AIML platform utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components.
• 6+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (VCs, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring, etc.).
• 6+ years’ experience with cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• 3+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs to build conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Technical Design & Architecture: Own design, architecture and development of multiple interconnected platform components for GenAI agentic workflows.
• System & Platform Evaluation: Select and evaluate software technologies, tools, and frameworks balancing build vs. buy.
• Cross-functional collaboration with data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, designers to gather requirements and plan backlogs.
• Strategic Planning: Drive multi-year roadmaps for software & platform products and resources.
• Technical Leadership: Lead teams of engineers for platform implementation and resolve complex issues.
• Mentorship: Guide engineers and junior tech leads on best practices and emerging trends.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

C#

LLMs

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

Snowflake

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Kubernetes

Airflow

Temporal

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer to lead the GenAI platform design and deployment for a large-scale agentic workflow system supporting 20K+ contact center employees. You will architect, implement and optimize high-performance AI/ML components and collaborate across data science, software, and product teams.

You will drive technical strategy, mentor engineers, and champion enterprise AI best practices across the organization.