Hybrid Senior Staff Engineering Manager – Applied AI

at GEICO

• Job title: Senior Staff Engineering Manager – Applied AI
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $150,000 - $300,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chevy Chase, United States

About the role

• Senior Engineering Manager leading a newly formed Applied AI & ML engineering team at GEICO. Overseeing AI capabilities for the claims domain, collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

Requirements

• 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).

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.