Senior Machine Learning Engineer at GEICO

**Who this is for** This role is designed for an accomplished Senior Machine Learning Engineer eager to contribute as an individual contributor in the generativ

Work type: remote

Location: Palo Alto, CA | Seattle, WA

Salary: $115,000 – $230,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

**Who this is for** This role is designed for an accomplished Senior Machine Learning Engineer eager to contribute as an individual contributor in the generative AI space at GEICO. If you are passionate about scalability, reliability, and usability of GenAI workflows and enjoy solving complex problems, this is a great opportunity. **Key highlights** You will design, develop, and maintain high-performance AI solutions utilizing agentic workflows to deliver business value. This includes collaborating with cross-functional teams, integrating solutions with GEICO's AI platform, and mentoring junior engineers. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have 5+ years of experience designing and building scalable production AIML applications in cloud environments. - Are proficient in Python and Java, with experience managing end-to-end software development lifecycles. - Have experience with training, finetuning, and inferencing AIML models and LLMs. - Possess a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.

Job Description

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 through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose.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.Overview: We are seeking an accomplished Senior ML Engineer to serve as an individual contributor to the generative AI space at GEICO. In this role, you will be collaborating with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop, and deploy systems that drive business value. Your passion for scalability, reliability, and usability of generative AI workflows and approaches will allow you to provide hands-on guidance, ensure architectural excellence, and lead by example to solve complex, large-scale, cross-functional problems.  

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the design, development and maintenance of high-performance AI solutions that utilize agentic workflows to deliver concrete business value for internal stakeholders. Examples include knowledge assistants, voice/text-based conversational AI solutions, document/audio processing copilots, voice agents, robotic process automation, etc.  

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, designers to gather requirements, help define project scope and prioritize feature backlogs. Execute pragmatic technical visions & roadmaps that balance business outcomes, product release timelines and engineering excellence.  

• Integrate and build solutions using GEICO AI platform architecture. Partner with platform teams to communicate requirements, understand current capabilities and gaps, and contribute to platform development. 

• Work on first-of-its-kind solutions within GEICO, with a deep understanding of business and technical processes, applications, and architecture to guide development. 

• Participate in project planning and stakeholder management, ensuring the efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.  

• Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture. 

Basic Qualifications 

• 5 years of experience designing and building scalable production AIML applications and systems in cloud environments,   

• Proficient in Python, Java and similar general-purpose programming languages.   

• 3 years managing end-to-end software development life cycle (e.g. CICD pipelines, Kubernetes-based deployments, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support etc.) for backend systems and APIs  

• 2 years in training, finetuning, real-time/batch inferencing and evaluation systems for AIML models and LLMs  

• 2 years owning end-to-end development, monitoring, maintenance, and continuous improvement of scalable, robust AIML applications. 

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics or a related field 

PreferredQualifications: 

• 2 years interfacing directly with internal business stakeholders and/or external stakeholders on AIML initiatives  

• 2 years working with cloud provider solutions such as Azure and AWS  

• 2 years with tools that power LLM-based AI agents: eval frameworks, agent tooling, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, etc.  

• Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic, cross-functional and ambiguous decision-making environments 

Annual Salary

$115,000.00 - $230,000.00The 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.

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
 

The GEICO Pledge:Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

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.

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