Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform

Root Insurance

7d•$154,200 - $210,000•Remote

About The Position

AI Platform is Root’s team for building the infrastructure, tooling, and operating patterns that make AI capabilities reliable, secure, and usable across Root’s products and operations. As a Senior Software Engineer on AI Platform, you will independently own hard engineering problems, turn early demand into durable platform primitives, and help define the patterns that make responsible AI part of everyday work.

Requirements

4+ years as a software engineer
Demonstrated ability to independently deliver complex software or infrastructure work with high quality.
Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
Strong DevOps practices, including automation, observability, incident response, and secure delivery.
Familiarity with AI/LLM application patterns and the judgment to use them responsibly.
A platform-as-a-product mindset and ability to work across systems within a domain.
Clear communication and effective collaboration with engineers and immediate cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

Make safe, reliable AI use the easy path for Root teams by building the services, developer tools, and deployment patterns they can depend on.
Turn early demand and complex engineering problems into reusable platform capabilities, from AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code to AI system operations.
Give teams confidence to ship by building in security, observability, reliability, and cost awareness from the start.
Reduce the friction between a promising AI idea and a production-ready capability through self-service tools and thoughtful developer experience.
Work alongside product engineering, data, security, and platform partners to turn their highest-leverage needs into shared solutions.
Help establish the technical standards, documentation, and design practices that make responsible AI development repeatable at Root.