Staff Machine Learning Engineer

GEICO

Actively hiring
Ca Palo Alto Office, US Posted 36 days ago $130,000–$260,000 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

GEICO is hiring a Staff AI engineer for its AI organization to lead the development of the company’s virtual agent platform, enhancing productivity and service quality for over 20,000 contact center employees in claims, service, and sales operations. This role involves designing, developing, and deploying scalable systems that integrate knowledge management, search, prompt handling, workflow orchestration, action execution, logging, and semantic knowledge graphs using technologies like Elasticsearch, Snowflake, Kafka, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Spark, Airflow, and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate has a strong background in building high-performance AI/ML platforms with hands-on experience in generative AI, and will collaborate closely with data scientists, ML engineers, software developers, product managers, and designers to drive technical visions and roadmaps that balance business outcomes and engineering excellence.

Skills

Python Java C++ Elasticsearch Qdrant Snowflake Kafka PostgreSQL MongoDB Cassandra Spark Ray Airflow Temporal Kubernetes CI/CD GPU GPT LLama Mistral Claude

What you'll do

  • Design and develop high-performance AI platform components for Geico’s virtual agent.
  • Evaluate and implement software technologies to balance build vs. buy decisions.
  • Lead a small team of engineers in troubleshooting complex software issues.
  • Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and design sessions, promoting best practices.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs.

What we're looking for

  • 6+ years of professional software development experience with multiple programming languages.
  • Extensive experience designing and building AI/ML systems using open-source/cloud-agnostic components.
  • 4+ years managing end-to-end software development lifecycle, including version control and CICD pipelines.
  • Proven expertise in building training, finetuning, and inferencing systems for AIML models and LLMs.
  • Experience utilizing and fine-tuning large language models to create conversational experiences or agentic workflows.

Market check

Salary context

This $130,000–$260,000 range sits above 35% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$161,100–$260,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$176,000–$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.

Listed pay typically runs $110,000–$230,000 across 128 roles with salary data.

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