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We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide.\nFounded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. 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.\nGEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer (AI Platforms and Applications) to join our AI organization. This individual will serve as one of the most senior technical authorities driving the architecture, evolution, and long-term technical strategy of GEICO’s Generative AI and virtual agent platforms. This platform directly supports productivity and service quality for 20K+ contact center employees across claims, service, and sales.\nIn this role, you willoperatewith enterprise-wide technical influence, shaping foundational AI platform and application capabilities that enable large-scale, production-grade GenAI and agentic workflows across GEICO. You will work closely with senior engineers, architects, product leaders, and executives to define and evolve durable, scalable, and extensible AI systems that underpin multiple lines of business.\nThe ideal candidate brings a proventrack recordof designing and architecting complex, multi-system AI/ML platforms at scale, deep hands-onexpertise, and a strong passion for Generative AI technologies in real-world production environments.\nKey Responsibilities\nEnterprise Architecture & Technical Authority\nDefine, own, and evolve the foundational architecture for GEICO’s Generative AI and agentic workflow platforms.\n\nServe as a final technical authority on complex architectural decisionsimpactingmultiple products, teams, and business domains.\n\nDesign interconnected, high-performance, and durable platform components that power end-to-end GenAI workflows, including:\n\nKnowledge curation and management\n\nSearch and retrieval systems\n\nPrompt and context management\n\nWorkflow orchestration and action execution\n\nSemantic and knowledge graph systems\n\nPlatform & GenAI Applications Strategy, Architecture, and Business Impact\nEstablish and drive multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps for both AI platform capabilities and Generative AI (GenAI) applications in close partnership with product and business leaders.\n\nBalance speed, scalability, reliability, and extensibility while ensuring platforms and GenAI applications can support future AI use cases, evolving business needs, and organizational growth.\n\nInfluence investment decisions by evaluating build vs. buy tradeoffs and architectural choices for both the underlying platform and GenAI applications.\n\nDefine the reference architecture and best practices for GenAI application development, deployment, and integration, ensuring alignment with overall enterprise architecture.\n\nCollaborate with business stakeholders toidentifyhigh-impact GenAIapplication opportunities and develop strategies to maximize business value and measurable outcomes.\n\nContinuously assess and communicate the business impact of GenAI applications, providing clear metrics and feedback loops to inform ongoing strategy and platform evolution.\n\nSystem & Technology Evaluation\nLead evaluation and selection of core technologies,frameworks, andinfrastructure componentswithaemphasis on building andscalingGenerativeAI applications, including LLM orchestration(e.g.,LangChain,LlamaIndex), agenticworkflows, RAG systems, andevaluation/observability tooling, while partnering on underling AI platform infrastructure and services to support production readiness.\n\nEnsure architectural consistency and technical rigor across open-source, cloud-agnostic, and managed service integrations.\n\nCross-Organization Influence\nCollaborate across engineering, datascience, ML, product, and design organizations to align on platform and GenAI application direction, technical standards, and businessobjectives.\n\nDrive alignment across teams by translating complex technical and business concepts into clear architectural guidance and decision frameworks.\n\nPartner with senior technical and business leaders across departments to promote enterprise-wide adoption of GenAI best practices and maximize organizational impact.\n\nTechnical Leadership & Problem Solving\nTackle the most complex and ambiguous technical and business challenges affecting system-wide and application-specific performance, reliability, and scalability.\n\nLead deep technical reviews, architectural assessments, and design discussions for critical AI and GenAI application initiatives.\n\nGuideplatform and GenAI application evolution through hands-on engagement when necessary, especially in high-impact or high-risk areas.\n\nMentorship & Technical Stewardship\nMentor senior engineers and technical leads, setting a high bar for architectural thinking, engineering quality, and technical decision-making for both platform and GenAI application initiatives.\n\nEstablish and reinforce best practices for platform and GenAI application design, reliability, observability, and operational excellence.\n\nContribute to internal documentation, architectural standards, and technical knowledge sharing for both the AI platform and GenAI applications.\n\nMinimum Qualifications\nMaster’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, ora relatedfield.\n\n10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with deepexpertisein large-scale distributed systems.\n\nExtensive experience architecting and building multi-component AI/ML platforms using technologies such as:\n\nSearch and retrieval systems (e.g., Elasticsearch,Qdrant, Milvus,Pinecone,Weaviate)\n\nData platforms (e.g., Snowflake, relational and NoSQL databases, and feature stores)\n\nStreaming and distributed processing (e.g., Kafka, Spark, Ray)\n\nWorkflow orchestration (e.g., Airflow, Temporal, Prefect)\n\nLLM orchestration and application frameworks( e.g.,LangChain,Llamaindex)\n\nObservability, evaluation, and tracing for GenAIsystems (e.g.,LangSmith,ArizePhoenix, Weights & Biases,OpenTelemetry)\n\nVector databases, embedding pipelines,and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures\n\nAgenticframeworksand multi-agent systems for complex task execution\n\nStrong background in full software development lifecycle ownership, including CI/CD, Kubernetes, monitoring, and production operations.\n\nDeep experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.\n\nDemonstrated hands-on experience building production systems using LLMs and Generative AI technologies (e.g., GPT, Llama, Mistral, Claude) to power conversational and agentic workflows.\n\nAnnual Salary\n$210,000.00 - $350,000.00The 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.\nAt this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.The GEICO Pledge:\nGreat Company: Protecting customers through life’s twists and turns with innovation and integrity.\nGreat Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.\nGreat Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.\nGreat Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.\nThe equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.\nGEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. 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