Senior Staff Engineer – Tiering & Rating Platform

GEICO

Senior Staff Engineer building AI-powered capabilities for GEICO. Driving insurance business transformation with high-performance and low-maintenance platforms in a hybrid team environment.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeBethesda • California, Maryland, Washington • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $130,000 - $260,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureDistributed SystemsDockerJavaKubernetesNoSQLPythonSDLCSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Focus on multiple areas and provide leadership to the engineering teams.
Partners with engineering teams, data scientists, and product leaders to design, build, and scale AI-powered capabilities that automate workflows, improve decision-making, and elevate user experience.
Experiment rigorously: define hypotheses, run evaluations, measure impact, and refine models in production.
Lead through technical influence, providing technical direction and mentorship on AI architecture, LLMs, agent-based development, experimentation, and deployments across multiple teams.
Set standards for AI reliability, interpretability, and governance tailored to application domains and regulatory constraints.
Stay on the frontier of AI capabilities continuously evaluating new tools, models, and frameworks to apply responsibly in application domains.
Drive innovation by exploring new models, frameworks, and reasoning techniques and applying them creatively to real-world challenges.
Establish and model engineering best practices for reliability, interpretability, safety, governance, and monitoring of production AI systems.
Utilize programming languages like Python, C#, Java or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python, GO, or C# including object-oriented design.
8+ years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience, including 2 or more years working with Generative AI or LLM-based systems in production.
A track record of turning research ideas into working products with measurable outcomes.
Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and OpenAI or Anthropic APIs.
Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, text-to-structure extraction, and vector database design.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production AI systems including agentic workflows and intelligent automation features.
Proven experience building scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable products and systems that run reliably in production.
Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and knowledge graph integration.
Ability to collaborate deeply across teams and co-create solutions with engineers, product managers, and domain experts.
Experience mentoring engineers and helping others grow in AI, LLM, an agent-based system design.
A history of delivering measurable business outcomes from AI systems.
Strong competency in distributed systems, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering.
Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture and extensible REST APIs
Experience building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle(task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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.

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

PythonJavaC#GOSQLNoSQLGenerative AILLMsAI frameworksmicro-services architecture

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationmentorshipinnovationcommunicationproblem-solvingtechnical influenceco-creationadaptabilityevaluative thinking