
Senior Staff Engineering Manager – Applied AI
GEICO
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chevy Chase • California • Maryland • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $300,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Partner with product, data science, and AI Platform teams to define and deliver an Applied AI roadmap for claims tied to measurable business outcomes.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of AI features in the claims domain (e.g., claims triage/routing, adjuster assistance, subrogation/recovery opportunities, workload optimization).
- Establish robust MLOps/LLMOps (model/prompt/version management, evaluation, feature/vector stores, CI/CD for ML, online/batch inference, cost/performance tuning).
- Rapidly prototype using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) to validate concepts and accelerate delivery.
- Ensure reliability, security, and Responsible AI (privacy-by-design, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, auditability).
- Drive engineering excellence (clean architecture, scalable APIs, event-driven integration, observability, automated testing, SLOs/runbooks/on-call).
- Recruit, coach, and grow a high-performing team; champion Agile practices and operational excellence.
Requirements
- 10+ years hands-on software or solutions engineering; recent experience architecting/building production systems.
- 5+ years leading Agile teams delivering customer-impacting products.
- Proven track record shipping AI/ML-enabled features to production with measurable impact.
- Strong cloud experience (AWS or Azure); CI/CD, SDLC, and modern engineering practices.
- Practical MLOps/LLMOps experience (model lifecycle, telemetry, A/B testing, online and batch inference).
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication; Bachelor’s in CS/IS or related field (or equivalent experience).
Benefits
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
AI featuresMLOpsLLMOpsCI/CDonline inferencebatch inferenceclean architecturescalable APIsautomated testingA/B testing
Soft skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationcoachingteam leadershipAgile practicesoperational excellence
Certifications
Bachelor’s in CSBachelor’s in IS