At GEICO, we are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer - Applied AI to provide technical architecture and leadership for medium to large, complex, cross-functional AI initiatives. The ideal candidate will have deep technical expertise, proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient, production-ready AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience
- Proven track record of architecting and delivering complex AI/ML capabilities
- Deep hands-on expertise with Python and modern AI frameworks
- Demonstrated experience building and deploying production RAG systems
- Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, knowledge graphs, and semantic reasoning
- Familiarity with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocols and Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Experience ensuring platform scalability, cross-domain coherence, and alignment with AI platform capabilities and strategy
- Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
- Proven ability to influence technical direction across multiple teams and build consensus among engineers and engineering leaders
- Track record of mentoring engineers at various levels and helping them develop AI and technical leadership capabilities
- Demonstrated ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- History of delivering measurable business outcomes from AI systems in production environments
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program
- Market-competitive compensation
- 401K savings plan with 6% match
- Performance and recognition-based incentives
- Tuition assistance
- Mental healthcare
- Fertility and adoption assistance
- Workplace flexibility
- GEICO Flex program for remote work
