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GEICO is seeking a Staff Engineer, Applied AI to help shape how Generative AI enhances customer and associate experiences across the enterprise. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role for someone with deep technical expertise, strong collaboration skills, and a proven ability to deliver scalable, resilient, production-ready AI systems. You will partner with engineering teams, data scientists, and product leaders to design, build, and scale AI-powered capabilities that automate workflows, improve decision-making, and elevate user experience. You will also mentor engineers who want to learn AI, LLMs, and agent-based development, fostering a culture of learning, curiosity, and innovation.
Job Responsibility:
Identify and evaluate opportunities for automating business processes using AI, intelligent workflows, and agent-based systems
Architect, build, and deploy applied AI solutions across high-value enterprise workflows including automation, document intelligence, decision support, and intelligent assistants
Design and implement AI agents and agentic workflows that orchestrate tools, APIs, reasoning steps, and business logic to automate complex processes at scale
Build systems and services that meet high standards for scalability, resilience, performance, and availability
Use knowledge graphs to enhance reasoning, entity relationships, context retrieval, and multi-step workflows
Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and analytics partners to co-create scalable AI solutions and translate business needs into technical designs
Mentor engineers and scientists who want to develop AI and agentic workflow skills through coaching, pairing, reviews, and architectural guidance
Drive innovation by exploring new models, frameworks, and reasoning techniques and applying them creatively to real-world challenges
Lead through technical influence by providing guidance on architecture, experimentation, and deployment across multiple teams
Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation including hypothesis definition, measurement, validation, and iterative improvement in production environments
Establish and model engineering best practices for reliability, interpretability, safety, governance, and monitoring of production AI systems
Requirements:
8 or more years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience
2 or more years working with Generative AI or LLM-based systems in production
Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and OpenAI or Anthropic APIs
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production AI systems including agentic workflows and intelligent automation features
Proven experience building scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable products and systems that run reliably in production
Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and knowledge graph integration
Ability to collaborate deeply across teams and co-create solutions with engineers, product managers, and domain experts
Experience mentoring engineers and helping others grow in AI, LLM, and agent-based system design
A history of delivering measurable business outcomes from AI systems
Strong competency in distributed systems, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
Nice to have:
Experience building advanced Generative AI capabilities including domain-tuned LLMs, vector reasoning techniques, or specialized retrieval architectures
Experience with insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries
Experience deploying AI components in Java ecosystems including Spring AI, LangChain4j, or Embabel
Background in document intelligence, fraud or anomaly modeling, or complex ontology and knowledge graph design
Familiarity with AI safety practices, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and regulatory compliance
Ability to effectively communicate complex technical topics to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders
What we offer:
Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation
a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
performance and recognition-based incentives
and tuition assistance
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year