Senior AI Ops Engineer, Application

USAA

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Antonio, TX
Salary
$114,080–$218,030 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
2 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Nov 5, 2026 (soon)

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About USAA

USAA (United Services Automobile Association) is a San Antonio-based Fortune 500 financial services company founded in 1922, dedicated to providing insurance, banking, and investment solutions exclusively to U.S. military members, veterans, and their families.

USAA currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $114,080–$218,030 across 44 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior AI Ops Engineer, Application

As a Senior AI Ops Engineer - Application, you will join the Application AI Ops team to build and operate high-throughput ingestion and feature pipelines. You will transform application logs, traces, and business-transaction signals into features for anomaly-detection and forecasting models. Your daily work involves training and tuning models to identify degrading payment APIs or checkout failures, while building LLM-based components for log parsing and root-cause hypothesis. You will write tested automation for remediation, including rollbacks and kill-switches, within a regulated financial environment. Required skills include Python, a second production language, and experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn. You must demonstrate fluency in LLM techniques, prompt design, and retrieval-augmented generation to solve complex production application operations and incident triage problems.

What you'll do

  • Build and operate high-throughput ingestion and feature pipelines for application logs, traces, and transaction events.
  • Train, validate, and tune anomaly-detection and forecasting models using application and transaction-level signals.
  • Develop LLM-based components for log parsing, summarization, and root-cause hypothesis generation with hallucination risk management.
  • Design event correlation and probable-cause ranking logic to reduce raw application alert volume.
  • Write, test, and version remediation automation for application-layer failures with tested rollback and kill-switch frameworks.
  • Instrument and monitor production models and automations while participating in the on-call rotation for live actions.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a Bachelor's degree or 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
  • Must have 5+ years of hands-on software or data engineering experience.
  • Must have strong programming ability in Python plus a second production language.
  • Must have practical experience productionizing ML models using frameworks such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
  • Must have working fluency with LLM-based techniques including prompt design and retrieval-augmented generation.
  • Must have experience writing and testing operational automation including workflow orchestration and rollback design.
  • Must be comfortable operating in a regulated environment and debugging live production incidents under pressure.
  • US military experience gained through service or as a military spouse/domestic partner (preferred).

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