GEICO · 1 day ago
Senior Staff Engineering Manager - Applied AI
Austin, TX
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $300K/yr
10+ years expGEICO is a private American auto insurance company that is undergoing a transformation into a product and tech powered company. They are seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead a newly formed Applied AI & ML engineering team, responsible for delivering AI capabilities for the claims domain and collaborating with product and AI Platform teams.
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Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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)
Preferred
Experience leveraging frameworks such as Spring AI, LangChain, and Embabel to build AI-enabled applications
Java/Python services; Kubernetes/EKS, serverless; Kafka/Kinesis; lakehouse (Delta/Iceberg); vector DBs; feature stores; model registries (MLflow/SageMaker/Databricks); orchestration (Airflow/Ray); observability (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus)
LLM-specific tooling: RAG, prompt engineering, safety/guardrails, red-teaming, evaluation frameworks
Insurance/claims, fraud, or contact center AI experience at scale
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.
Company
GEICO
GEICO, Government Employees Insurance Company, has been providing affordable auto insurance since 1936. It is a sub-organization of Berkshire Hathaway.
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Leadership Team
Todd Combs
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
Clayton Johnson
Sr. Director of Product Management
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