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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr. Software Engineer - Applied AI - **Company:** GEICO - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $80,000.0 - $215,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Business Logic, Systems Engineering, Information Systems, Data Architecture, Decision Support Systems, Distributed Systems, Graph Database, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Software Safety, Service Design, Software Engineering, Workflow Management Systems, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Generative AI, Information Technology, HuggingFace - **Published:** July 31, 2026 - **Apply:** https://arc.dev/remote-jobs/j/redirect/lp00zlremb ## About the Role * Experience: 5+ years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience, including 1+ years working with Generative AI or LLM-based systems in production. * Hands-on AI engineering: Strong experience with Python and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and OpenAI or Anthropic APIs. * Production AI delivery: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production AI systems, including agentic workflows and intelligent automation features. * Systems engineering excellence: Proven track record building scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable systems that run reliably in production. * AI & data architectures: Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and knowledge graph integration. * Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to work deeply with engineers, product managers, and domain experts to co-create solutions. * Mentorship: Experience mentoring engineers and helping others grow in AI, LLM, and agent-based system design. * Business impact: History of delivering measurable business outcomes with AI solutions. * Distributed systems fundamentals: Strong competency in distributed systems, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering. Nice to Have * Advanced GenAI capabilities: Experience building domain-tuned LLMs, vector reasoning techniques, or specialized retrieval architectures. * Regulated domains: Experience in insurance, financial services, or other regulated industries. * Java ecosystem: Experience deploying AI components in Java ecosystems (e.g., Spring AI, LangChain4j, Embabel). * Deep domain modeling: Background in document intelligence, fraud or anomaly detection, or complex ontology and knowledge graph design. * AI safety & governance: Familiarity with AI safety practices, evaluation frameworks, monitoring, and regulatory compliance. * Executive communication: Ability to clearly communicate complex technical topics to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders., * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience ## Description GEICO is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer to join our Unified Communications Service Engineering (UCSE) group and lead the development of cutting-edge AI product development. This role is ideal for candidates with deep expertise in building products powered by AI models, with a particular focus on working with large language models (LLMs). You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization by designing, developing, and deploying core consumer experiences that leverage AI, ensuring they are robust, scalable and production ready., As a Sr. Software Engineer, you will: * Identify AI opportunities: Evaluate and prioritize opportunities to automate business processes using AI, intelligent workflows, and agent-based systems. * Design and ship applied AI solutions: Architect, build, and deploy AI solutions for high-value workflows including automation, document intelligence, decision support, and intelligent assistants. * Build agentic workflows: Design and implement AI agents and agentic workflows that orchestrate tools, APIs, reasoning steps, and business logic to automate complex processes at scale. * Own production systems: Develop services that meet high standards for scalability, resilience, performance, security, and availability. * Leverage knowledge graphs: Use knowledge graphs to enhance reasoning, entity relationships, context retrieval, and multi-step workflows. * Partner across functions: Collaborate with product, engineering, operations, and analytics partners to co-create scalable AI solutions and translate business needs into robust technical designs. * Mentor and upskill others: Coach engineers and scientists in AI, LLMs, and agentic workflow design through pairing, reviews, and architectural guidance. * Drive innovation: Explore new models, frameworks, and reasoning techniques and apply them thoughtfully to real-world challenges. * Influence architecture: Provide technical guidance on architecture, experimentation, and deployment within and across teams. * Experiment and evaluate rigorously: Run end-to-end experimentation, including hypothesis definition, measurement, validation, and iterative improvement in production environments. * Model best practices: Establish and promote engineering best practices for reliability, interpretability, safety, governance, and monitoring of production AI systems., Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future. * 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. ## Related Videos - [Java Meets AI: Empowering Spring Developers to Build Intelligent Apps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1554-java-meets-ai-empowering-spring-developers-to-build-intelligent-apps) - [What If We Designed Employee Experience Like a Customer Journey?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1824-what-if-we-designed-employee-experience-like-a-customer-journey) - [Your imaginations is (no longer) the limit: how Generative AI empowers people to be creative](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/741-your-imaginations-is-no-longer-the-limit-how-generative-ai-empowers-people-to-be-creative) - [The State of GenAI & Machine Learning in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1383-the-state-of-genai-machine-learning-in-2025) - [Design as an algorithm, not as a feature](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/471-design-as-an-algorithm-not-as-a-feature) - [The shadows that follow the AI generative models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/624-the-shadows-that-follow-the-ai-generative-models) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Got AI ideas but no money? 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