Staff/Sr. Staff AI Engineer – AI Agent Platform

GEICO • Austin, TX

313d • $115,000 - $260,000

About The Position

GEICO is seeking an experienced Staff or Sr. Staff AI engineer to join our AI org. This person will play key technical leadership roles for the development of Geico’s virtual agent platform that elevates the experience of both external customers and internal associates. You will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop and deploy systems that ensure productivity, scalability and usability of GenAI workflows across Geico. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of building high performance AI/ML platform & systems, with hands-on experience and deep enthusiasm for Generative AI and related ecosystems.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or C#.
• 6+ years of experience designing and building AIML platform and systems utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engine (e.g. elastic search, Qdrant, Milvus), data warehouse (e.g. snowflake), streaming platform (e.g. Kafka), relational database (e.g. postgresql), Nosql (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g. Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g. Airflow, Temporal), robotic process automation, context & memory management (e.g. Redis).
• 4+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (version control, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support).
• 4+ years’ experience building training, finetuning, real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AIML models and LLMs, esp. utilizing GPU-powered infrastructure.
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field.

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years’ experience with cloud providers such as Azure and AWS.
• 2+ years’ experience with front-end technologies and frameworks such as React and Flutter.
• 2+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude for conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic, cross-functional decision-making environments.

Responsibilities

• Own design, development and maintenance of high-performance, durable and scalable platform components that jointly power collections of end-to-end GenAI agentic workflows.
• Contribute to the selection, evaluation, and implementation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market vs. maintainability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers and designers to gather requirements, define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs.
• Establish pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcome, product release timelines and engineering excellence.
• Assist in the planning and estimation of software development projects, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.
• Lead a small team of engineers for feature implementation.
• Own technical roadmaps & implementation strategy.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software issues, ensuring optimal platform performance and reliability.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture, elevating AI best practices company-wide.

Benefits

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period.
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave.
• 401(k) Plan.
• Tuition Assistance.
• Paid Training and Licensures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree