Senior Staff ML Engineer

GEICO

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Palo Alto, CASeattle, WA
Salary
$150,000–$300,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
91 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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About GEICO

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is one of the largest auto insurers in the United States, offering affordable auto, home, renters, and other personal insurance products. Industry: Insurance

GEICO currently has 73 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $115,000–$230,000 across 70 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Staff ML Engineer

The Senior Staff ML Engineer serves as a technical leader for Generative AI applications, collaborating with a team of AI and software engineers. This individual contributor role involves designing, developing, and deploying scalable systems that utilize LLM, agentic, and knowledge-search capabilities to drive business value. Key responsibilities include owning end-to-end design for high-performance AI solutions, such as AI agent orchestration, conversational AI, and knowledge assistants. The engineer will establish technical roadmaps, mentor junior staff, and manage the software development life cycle. Required skills include proficiency in Python or Java, experience with LangSmith, LangGraph, and Kubernetes, and expertise in RAG pipelines and prompt engineering. The role focuses on solving complex, large-scale problems within the insurance domain by building first-of-its-kind production-grade AI agent workflows.

What you'll do

  • Own the end-to-end design, development, and maintenance of high-performance AI solutions using agentic workflows.
  • Build and integrate conversational AI, knowledge assistants, and process automation tools into the corporate AI platform.
  • Establish technical visions and roadmaps that balance business outcomes with engineering excellence and release timelines.
  • Drive the selection and implementation of software technologies, frameworks, and tools for production AI systems.
  • Partner with platform teams to communicate requirements and contribute to the development of internal AI infrastructure.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, design sessions, and the enforcement of technical best practices.
  • Manage project planning and stakeholder alignment to ensure timely delivery of scalable, production-grade AI applications.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience designing and building scalable production AI/ML applications and systems in cloud environments.
  • 5+ years of experience 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 in production.
  • 5+ years of experience managing the end-to-end software development life cycle for Generative AI applications, backend systems, and APIs.
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, or similar general-purpose programming languages.
  • Experience using frameworks to build LLM-based agentic workflows such as LangSmith/LangGraph or similar.
  • Experience using agentic communication standards such as A2A and MCP to build multi-agent applications.

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