Sr Staff Engineer - Applied AI

GEICO

Actively hiring

Remote (Md Bethesda Office, US) Posted 122 days ago $130,000–$260,000 / year

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At a glance

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TL;DR

GEICO seeks a Senior Staff Engineer, Applied AI for its technical leadership team, focusing on architecting and delivering complex, cross-functional AI initiatives with visibility at the tech VP level. This role involves providing technical direction for capabilities spanning multiple teams, designing scalable AI solutions, and mentoring mid-level engineers to foster engineering excellence. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise in Python and modern AI frameworks like LangChain, Hugging Face, and OpenAI APIs, as well as experience with production RAG systems and multi-agent architectures. They should be adept at influencing technical direction across teams, ensuring platform scalability, and aligning AI strategies with business objectives within a highly regulated industry context.

Skills

Python LangChain HuggingFace OpenAI Kubernetes Docker CI/CD MLOps Prometheus Grafana PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Apache Kafka AWS Azure Google Cloud Terraform GitLab GitHub Jenkins Ansible LangGraph LangSmith LlamaIndex VectorDBs KnowledgeGraphs MCP A2ACommunication SpringAI LangChain4j Embabel

What you'll do

Provide technical architecture for complex AI initiatives with visibility at the tech VP level.
Design and implement advanced Generative AI solutions spanning multiple business domains.
Set technical standards and best practices for AI/ML engineering excellence across teams.
Mentor mid-level engineers to develop advanced AI capabilities and leadership skills.
Ensure AI system implementations meet high standards for scalability, security, and compliance.

What we're looking for

Proven track record in architecting and delivering complex AI/ML systems with measurable business impact.
Deep hands-on expertise with Python and modern AI frameworks like LangChain, Hugging Face, and OpenAI APIs.
Experience building and deploying production RAG systems including document ingestion and vector search.
Demonstrated ability to design and operate production AI systems, including multi-agent architectures and workflow orchestration.
Strong influence over technical direction across multiple teams and the ability to build consensus among stakeholders.
Track record of mentoring engineers at various levels in developing advanced AI capabilities.

Market check

Salary context

This $130,000–$260,000 range sits above 38% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$170,000–$259,375

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$163,871–$246,150

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

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 128 open roles on FindRole.

GEICO

Wa Remote Zone 1, US 10 days ago $120,000–$260,000

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