Staff AI Enablement Engineer — Drive Cross-Team AI Platform

Root Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 189,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by building a flexible AI-enabled platform across the US. The AI Enablement Squad helps teams learn how to use AI in real workflows, turning learning into reusable capabilities and improvements to the AI Platform.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the squad, you will set cross-team direction for AI adoption, connect needs to platform strategy, and lead initiatives that scale internal capabilities for competitive advantage.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a software engineer.
• 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and deliver across multiple teams or domains.
• Deep fluency with AI tools, technologies, and application patterns, including responsible and scalable use.

Responsibilities

• Define how Root discovers, adopts, and scales AI-native ways of working across teams.
• Lead strategic embedded engagements that connect company priorities, real user workflows, and reusable capabilities.
• Turn patterns from the field into platform strategy, architecture, and investments that create compounding value.
• Design scalable engagement and adoption models that help more teams learn faster while reducing repeated effort.
• Align engineering and business leaders on opportunities, tradeoffs, outcomes, and responsible practices.
• 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 development

Technical leadership

AI tooling & patterns

Cross-functional collaboration

Systems thinking

Stakeholder communication

Mentorship & coaching

Problem framing

Tools

AI platforms

Job description

Root is on a mission to unbreak insurance by building a flexible AI-enabled platform across the US. The AI Enablement Squad helps teams learn how to use AI in real workflows, turning learning into reusable capabilities and improvements to the AI Platform.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the squad, you will set cross-team direction for AI adoption, connect needs to platform strategy, and lead initiatives that scale internal capabilities for competitive advantage.