Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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Overview: We are seeking an accomplished Senior Staff ML Engineer who will serve as a technical leader for the generative AI domain at GEICO. In this individual contributor role, you will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop and deploy systems that ensure scalability, reliability and usability of generative AI workflows and approaches across the organization which drive business value using LLM, agentic, and knowledge-search capabilities as their foundation. You bring a passion for providing hands-on guidance, ensuring architectural and technical excellence and best practices, serving as a source of thought leadership, and leadingby example to solve complex, large-scale, cross-functional problems. 
 

Responsibilities:   

• Own 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, define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs. Establish pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcome, 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. 

• Ideate and build first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO, with a deep understanding of business and technical processes, applications, and architecture to guide development. 

• Drive the selection, evaluation, and implementation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, maintainability, etc.  

• Take ownership 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  

• 10+ years of experience designing and building scalable production AIML applications and systems in cloud environments,   

• Proficient in Python, Java and similar general-purpose programming