Sr Staff Engineer - Applied AI

GEICO is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer, Applied AI to provide technical architecture and leadership for medium to large, complex, cross-functional AI initiatives. The role involves specifying architectures, providing technical direction, and leading implementation of advanced Generative AI solutions.

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
• 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

Benefits

• 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
• GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year