Staff Engineer, Applied AI

GEICO

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Remote

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Bethesda, MD
Salary
$110,000–$230,000 / yr
Posted
63 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $208k
This role $170k
$92k most similar roles pay here $275k

This role pays less than 76% of similar roles. Most pay $172,375–$243,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $170k versus about $208k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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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 68 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $112,500–$230,000 across 68 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Engineer, Applied AI

Staff Engineer - Applied AI The Staff Engineer - Applied AI joins a team focused on integrating Generative AI to enhance customer and associate experiences across the enterprise. This senior, hands-on individual contributor role involves identifying opportunities for automation, designing agentic workflows, and building scalable, production-ready systems for document intelligence and decision support. The candidate will architect solutions using knowledge graphs, vector databases, and retrieval-augmented generation while mentoring other engineers in LLM and agent-based development. Key technical requirements include experience with distributed systems, service design, and performance optimization. Preferred skills include working within Java ecosystems using Spring AI or LangChain4j. The role addresses the challenge of automating complex business processes at scale, ensuring high standards for reliability, safety, and interpretability in a production environment to improve internal efficiency and decision-making across various high-value enterprise workflows.

What does a Engineer earn in Remote?

Median $189520 from 49 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Identify and evaluate opportunities to automate business processes using AI, intelligent workflows, and agent-based systems.
  • Architect, build, and deploy production-ready AI solutions for automation, document intelligence, and decision support.
  • Design and implement agentic workflows that orchestrate tools, APIs, and reasoning steps to automate complex processes.
  • Integrate knowledge graphs to enhance reasoning, entity relationships, and multi-step context retrieval.
  • Build scalable, resilient systems that meet high standards for performance and availability in production environments.
  • Conduct rigorous experimentation and evaluation including hypothesis definition, measurement, and iterative improvement of AI models.
  • Establish engineering best practices for the reliability, safety, governance, and monitoring of production AI systems.
  • Mentor engineers and scientists on LLMs, agentic workflows, and technical architecture through coaching and code reviews.

What we're looking for

  • Must have professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience.
  • Must have experience working with Generative AI or LLM-based systems in production.
  • Proven track record of building scalable, resilient, and secure products that run reliably in production environments.
  • Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, RAG, vector databases, and knowledge graph integration.
  • Experience mentoring engineers and scientists in AI, LLM, and agent-based system design.
  • Proficiency in distributed systems, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate business needs into technical designs.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical topics to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

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