Senior Staff ML Engineer
Senior Staff ML Engineer at Geico serving as technical leader for Generative AI applications, designing and deploying systems using LLM, agentic, and knowledge-search capabilities across the organization.
- Compensation
- $150K–$300K / yr
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Ml / AI
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years of experience designing and building scalable production AI/ML applications and systems in cloud environments
- 5+ years owning end-to-end development, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of scalable, robust AI/ML applications.
- 5+ years of experience with training, finetuning, real-time/batch inferencing, and evaluation systems for AI/ML models and LLMs used in production systems
- 5+ years of experience managing the end-to-end software development life cycle (e.g. CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployments, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support etc.) for Generat
Nice to have
- 5+ years interfacing directly with internal business stakeholders and/or external stakeholders on AI/ML initiatives
Full description
Why Join GEICO?
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities.
Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.
Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.
Overview: We are seeking an accomplished Senior Staff ML Engineer who will serve as a technical leader for Generative AI applications at GEICO. In this individual contributor role, you will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop, and deploy systems that ensure scalability, reliability and usability of generative AI solutions, applications, and workflows across the organization which drive business value using LLM, agentic, and knowledge-search capabilities as their foundation. You bring a passion for providing hands-on guidance, ensuring architectural and technical excellence and best practices, serving as a source of thought leadership, and leading by example to solve complex, large-scale, cross-functional problems.
Responsibilities:
- Own end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of high-performance AI solutions that use agentic workflows to deliver concrete business value for internal stakeholders and customer-facing applications. Examples include AI agent orchestration, conversational AI solutions, knowledge assistants, process assistance and automation, etc.
- 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 development. Establish pragmatic technical visions and roadmaps that balance business outcomes, product release timelines, and engineering excellence.
- Integrate and build solutions using GEICO’s AI platform architecture. Partner with platform teams to communicate requirements, understand current capabilities and gaps, and contribute to platform feature roadmaps and development.
- Ideate, define, and build first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO, with a deep understanding of business and technical processes, applications, and architecture to guide development.
- Drive the selection, evaluation, and implementation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, maintainability, etc.