Staff Software Engineer – AI

Mercury Insurance

Staff Software Engineer focusing on innovative Generative AI initiatives for Mercury Insurance. Provide technical leadership, integrate AI solutions, and mentor engineers promoting practical AI adoption.

Posted 5/2/2026full-timeRemote • Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $101,167 - $204,439 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Open Source

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Apply Generative AI techniques to solve complex business problems by identifying opportunities where AI can enhance existing software systems and create new intelligent features.
Integrate Generative AI models and capabilities into production software applications, bridging the gap between Generative AI research and practical software engineering implementation.
Evaluate and select appropriate Generative AI models, tools, and techniques for specific use cases, considering factors like performance, cost, maintainability, and business impact.
Write high-quality code that combines traditional software engineering with AI components, ensuring robust integration, proper error handling, and comprehensive test coverage.
Review and translate product requirements into technical solutions that leverage AI effectively, designing systems that seamlessly blend AI capabilities with core application functionality.
Lead design and code reviews for AI-enhanced applications, ensuring best practices in both software engineering and AI implementation while maintaining Mercury standards.
Lead multiple sprint teams to deliver AI-powered features and improvements, addressing technical challenges in integrating AI into existing software systems.
Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams to identify AI opportunities and translate them into practical software solutions.
Mentor engineers on how to effectively incorporate AI into their software development practices, promoting understanding of AI capabilities and limitations.
Drive practical AI adoption across teams by demonstrating how to effectively combine software engineering principles with AI technologies.
Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort for AI-enhanced features, prioritize AI integration opportunities, and deliver measurable business value through AI implementation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred: Master’s Degree in Data Science.
Minimum: 7+ years software engineering experience with proven experience in cutting-edge Technologies and/or those used at Mercury.
3+ years hands-on experience leading multi-team engineering initiatives for building features in a distributed application systems environment.
Preferred: 5 or more years of experience with Data Science, NLP, AI, etc.
5 or more years of experience working on production ready conversational AI related initiatives including leveraging closed and open source models and libraries including enterprise platform
Experience with Agentic AI, RAG, Prompt, human in the loop evaluation
Experience with product data analytics

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

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Hard Skills & Tools

Generative AIsoftware engineeringAI integrationcode qualityerror handlingtest coveragedata sciencenatural language processingconversational AIproduct data analytics

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdesign reviewtechnical evaluationprioritizationteam managementbusiness impact assessment

Certifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s Degree in Information SystemsMaster’s Degree in Data Science