Staff Machine Learning Engineer

Why Join GEICO?

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.

Responsibilities

• Own design, development and maintenance of high-performance, durable and scalable platform components. Examples include knowledge management, search, prompt management, workflow orchestration, action execution systems, logging & tracing, semantic knowledge graph, etc.
• Contribute to the evaluation and implementation of software technologies, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, maintainability, etc. for individual systems and platform components.
• 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.
• Assist in the planning and estimation of software development projects, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.
• Lead a small team of engineers for feature implementation.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software issues, ensuring optimal system performance and reliability.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture, elevating AI engineering best practices across the company.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field
• 6+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python or C++.
• 6+ years of experience designing and building AIML systems utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engine (e.g. elastic search, Qdrant), data warehouse (e.g. snowflake), streaming platform (e.g. Kafka), relational database (e.g. postgresql), Nosql (e.g. MongoDB, Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g. Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g. Airflow, Temporal), robotic process automation, context management, etc.
• 4+ years’ experience managing end-to-end software development life cycle (version control, CICD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support etc.)
• 4+ years’ experience building training, finetuning, real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AIML models and LLMs, esp. utilizing GPU-powered infrastructure
• 2+ years’ experience utilizing and/or finetuning LLMs such as GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude etc. to build conversational experiences and/or agentic workflows

Qualifications

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience

Skills

• Proven track record of building high performance AI/ML platform & systems
• Deep enthusiasm for Generative AI technologies

Pay

Annual Salary $130,000.00 - $260,000.00. 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.

Schedule

Full-Time

Benefits

GEICO offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and more. Details can be found in the employee handbook.

Company Information

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.