Senior Staff AI Engineer: GenAI Platform Architect

GEICO Norwalk; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer in Palo Alto to lead the design and development of Geico’s GenAI-powered virtual agent platform. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of AI and software engineers to build scalable, high-performance AI/ML workflows used by thousands of contact center employees.

The role requires a proven track record building multi-system AI platforms, hands-on experience with GenAI technologies, and at least 10 years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software development experience with multiple programming languages (Java, C++, Python or C#).
• 10+ years architecting and building multi-component AI/ML platforms using open-source/cloud-agnostic components.
• 6+ years experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle and cloud providers (Azure/AWS).
• 3+ years experience utilizing/finetuning LLMs to build conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own design, architecture and development of inter-connected GenAI agentic workflows and platform components.
• Make technical decisions on tools, frameworks, and architecture balancing build vs. buy, speed, and extensibility.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers and designers to gather requirements and define roadmaps.
• Drive strategic planning and multi-year roadmaps for software and platform products.
• Lead teams of engineers in platform implementation and ensure throughput, reliability and scalability.
• Mentor engineers and junior tech leads; promote enterprise AI best practices and maintain internal docs.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

C#

LLM fine-tuning

GenAI workflows

Cloud proficiency

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Elasticsearch

Qdrant

Snowflake

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Spark

Ray

Airflow

Temporal

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff AI engineer in Palo Alto to lead the design and development of Geico’s GenAI-powered virtual agent platform. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of AI and software engineers to build scalable, high-performance AI/ML workflows used by thousands of contact center employees.

The role requires a proven track record building multi-system AI platforms, hands-on experience with GenAI technologies, and at least 10 years of relevant experience.