Staff AI Engineer: Lead GenAI Platform & Systems

GEICO; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO is seeking a Staff AI engineer to join our AI org. This role provides technical leadership for GenAI workflows across GEICO’s platforms, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers to design, develop and deploy scalable AI/ML systems. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building high-performance AI infrastructure and leading small teams.

Join a dynamic environment focused on productivity, quality of service, and innovation for 20K+ contact center staff.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience with Java, C++, Python or C#.
• 6+ years of experience designing and building AIML systems using open-source/cloud-agnostic components (search, data warehouse, streaming, databases, workflows)
• 4+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (version control, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting)
• 4+ years’ experience building training, finetuning, real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AIML models and LLMs, esp. using GPU-powered infra
• 2+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude for conversational experiences and agentic workflows

Responsibilities

• Own design, development and maintenance of high-performance, scalable platform components (knowledge management, search, prompt management, workflow orchestration, action execution, logging & tracing).
• Contribute to evaluation and implementation of software technologies balancing build vs. buy and release timelines.
• Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers and designers to gather requirements and prioritize feature backlogs.
• Assist in planning and estimation of software projects ensuring timely delivery.
• Lead a small team of engineers for feature implementation and mentor junior engineers.
• Foster AI engineering best practices across the company.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

C#

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Elasticsearch

Snowflake

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Cassandra

Spark

Ray

Airflow

Temporal

Job description

GEICO is seeking a Staff AI engineer to join our AI org. This role provides technical leadership for GenAI workflows across GEICO’s platforms, collaborating with data scientists and software engineers to design, develop and deploy scalable AI/ML systems. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience building high-performance AI infrastructure and leading small teams.

Join a dynamic environment focused on productivity, quality of service, and innovation for 20K+ contact center staff.