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Working here means having every opportunity to achieve your goals - and to help others accomplish theirs, too. Join our team as we help shape the future.\nKey Responsibilities\n Design & Deliver AI Solutions: Build statistical, ML, and generative/agentic AI solutions spanning RAG pipelines, chat/assistants, classification, forecasting, and recommendation systems using a fit-for-purpose toolkit from traditional predictive modeling to agentic workflows. \nRegulatory Intelligence & Filing Automation: Design and deploy GenAI capabilities to automate regulatory filing support, including DOI objection response generation and ingestion of legacy filings into searchable knowledge bases. Partner with Legal and Compliance to ensure outputs meet evolving standards and enable direct API integrations with regulatory bodies. \nKnowledge Base Engineering for Strategic Domains: Engineer and maintain domain-specific knowledge bases (regulatory intelligence, competitive insights, customer sentiment) to power generative applications across underwriting, pricing, and service. \nDomain & Compliance Integration: Develop deep understanding of The Hartford’s business structures, processes, and data sources. Embed domain taxonomies, regulatory constraints, access controls, and security into the solution design. Ensure adherence to responsible AI practices-fairness, bias mitigation, transparency, and observability with compliance-by-design. \nStakeholder Collaboration: Partner with leaders and SMEs across Product, Operations, Claims, Underwriting, and Risk to align initiatives to business goals. Define success criteria that balance accuracy, reusability, cost, and performance. 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Define safe tool-use policies and function/structured calling for reliable agent behavior. \nEvaluation & Monitoring: Define metrics across use cases for classification, information retrieval, RAG/chat, forecasting, plus customer/ops KPIs. Build gold/synthetic test sets, support A/B testing, and monitor drift. Provide economic, qualitative, and statistical analysis supporting thresholds and decisions. \nSynthetic Data Generation & Augmentation: Develop and validate synthetic data pipelines to alleviate sparsity and accelerate convergence, especially for low-frequency perils and emerging segments, while preserving privacy and distributional fidelity. \nCustomer Experience Optimization: Apply GenAI to elevate self-service, virtual assistants, and inspection automation, driving personalization, speed, and operational efficiency. \nArchitectural Collaboration & MLOps Integration: Partner with enterprise architects and platform teams to ensure scalable, secure deployments via unified systems. Standardize experiment tracking, registries, evaluation gates, and CI/CD patterns across clouds and services. \nInnovation & Continuous Learning: Identify and pilot emerging methods (OCR, rerankers, PEFT/LoRA, distillation). 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