Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Senior ML Engineer

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.

Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

We are seeking an accomplished Senior ML Engineer to serve as an individual contributor to the generative AI space at GEICO. In this role, you will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop, and deploy systems that drive business value. Your passion for scalability, reliability, and usability of generative AI workflows and approaches will allow you to provide hands-on guidance, ensure architectural excellence, and lead by example to solve complex, large-scale, cross-functional problems.

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, development, and maintenance of high-performance AI solutions that utilize agentic workflows to deliver concrete business value for internal stakeholders. Examples include knowledge assistants, voice/text-based conversational AI solutions, document/audio processing copilots, voice agents, robotic process automation, etc.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, designers to gather requirements, help define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs. Execute pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcomes, product release timelines, and engineering excellence.
• Integrate and build solutions using GEICO AI platform architecture. Partner with platform teams to communicate requirements, understand current capabilities and gaps, and contribute to platform development.
• Work on first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO, with a deep understanding of business and technical processes, applications, and architecture to guide development.
• Participate in project planning and stakeholder management, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture.

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience designing and building scalable production AIML applications and systems in cloud environments.
• Proficient in Python, Java, and similar general-purpose programming languages.
• 3 years managing end-to-end software development life cycle (e.g. CICD pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployments, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support, etc.) for backend systems and APIs.
• 2 years in training, fine-tuning, real-time/batch inferencing, and evaluation systems for AIML models and LLMs.
• 2 years owning end-to-end development, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of scalable, robust AIML applications.
• Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years interfacing directly with internal business stakeholders and/or external stakeholders on AIML initiatives.
• 2 years working with cloud provider solutions such as Azure and AWS.
• 2 years with tools that power LLM-based AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, etc.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic, cross-functional, and ambiguous decision-making environments.

Annual Salary: $115,000.00 - $230,000.00

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate's work experience, education and training, the work location, as well as market and business considerations.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: Protecting customers through life's twists and turns with innovation and integrity.

Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.

Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.

Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.

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