Staff AI Platform Engineer — Architect Cross-Team AI Infra

OhioX; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 189,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Root is pursuing a bold mission to unbreak insurance by delivering delightful experiences at unbeatable prices. The AI Platform team builds the infrastructure, tooling, and operating patterns that make AI capabilities reliable, secure, and usable across Root's products and operations.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for that foundation and drive cross-team work to turn AI ambition into scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a software engineer.
• Experience leading software teams or major technical initiatives.
• Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, Terraform, and production operations.
• Ability to drive cross-team implementation decisions and communicate complex topics to senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Define what Root must make true for AI to become a trusted, company-wide capability and translate that vision into multi-quarter technical direction.
• Lead cross-team initiatives that turn AI strategy into durable platform architecture, shared services, and operating models.
• Make hard technical tradeoffs that let teams move quickly without compromising security, reliability, observability, cost, or maintainability.
• Unblock critical work across AI Platform, product engineering, data, security, and infrastructure by aligning decisions across systems and domains.
• Establish standards and feedback loops to monitor, govern, and continuously improve AI-enabled systems.
• Anticipate constraints and drive investments that unlock the company’s next stage of AI adoption.
• Mentor engineers and develop technical leaders through clear architecture and strong judgment.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Production ops

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Root is pursuing a bold mission to unbreak insurance by delivering delightful experiences at unbeatable prices. The AI Platform team builds the infrastructure, tooling, and operating patterns that make AI capabilities reliable, secure, and usable across Root's products and operations.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will set the technical direction for that foundation and drive cross-team work to turn AI ambition into scalable infrastructure.