Hybrid Staff Engineer

at GEICO

• Job title: Staff Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $115,000 - $230,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Distributed Systems, Java, Python, SDLC
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Bethesda, United States

About the role

• Staff Engineer developing high-performance AI-powered capabilities for GEICO's insurance business transformation. Collaborating across teams to ensure engineering excellence in a hyper-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to engineering teams
• Own complete solution across its entire life cycle
• Partner with engineering teams, data scientists, and product leaders to design, build, and scale AI-powered capabilities
• Mentor engineers in AI, LLMs, and agent-based development
• Drive innovation by exploring new models, frameworks, and reasoning techniques
• Lead through technical influence by providing guidance on architecture, experimentation, and deployment
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluations
• Establish and model engineering best practices for production AI systems
• Influence and build vision with product managers, team members, and customers
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Lead in design sessions and code reviews
• Share best practices and improve processes within and across teams

Requirements

• Fluency and specialization with at least two modern languages such as Java, Python or C# including object-oriented design
• 8 or more years of professional software engineering or applied machine learning experience
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and modern AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, and OpenAI or Anthropic APIs
• Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operating production AI systems
• Proven experience building scalable, resilient, secure, and maintainable products and systems
• Strong understanding of agent architectures, workflow orchestration, retrieval-augmented generation, vector databases, and knowledge graph integration
• Ability to collaborate deeply across teams and co-create solutions
• Experience mentoring engineers in AI, LLM, and agent-based systems
• Strong competency in distributed systems, service design, performance optimization, and reliability engineering
• Experience in building products using micro-services oriented architecture
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle

Benefits

• Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage
• 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match
• Performance and recognition-based incentives
• Tuition assistance
• Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance
• Supports flexibility with workplace flexibility and GEICO Flex program allowing work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year