Distinguished Engineer - Applied AI

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. 

Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. 

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.

We are looking for a  Distinguished Engineer-Applied AI to lead how Generative AI transforms the claims experience from intake to settlement. This is a hands-on, senior individual contributor role for someone who combines deep technical skills and the ability to apply AI in complex, real-world systems.  

You will work closely with engineers, claims domain experts, and data scientists to design and deploy AI-native capabilities that make claims faster, more accurate, and more transparent. Your mission is to prototype, validate, and scale intelligent systems that reduce manual effort, improve decisions, and elevate customer experience all while setting a high bar for technical and ethical AI use in insurance. 

What you will do 

• Design and lead applied AI initiatives across the claim lifecycle (e.g., Claim intake, automation, document understanding, adjuster assist, fraud detection, coverage reasoning). 
• Prototype and build GenAI-powered tools from RAG pipelines and domain-tuned LLMs to intelligent workflow agents that operate on structured and unstructured claims data. 
• Experiment rigorously: define hypotheses, run evaluations, measure impact, and refine models in production. 
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, data, and claims operations to translate pain points into scalable AI solutions. 
• Guide a small team of engineers and scientists by influence, providing technical direction and mentorship on AI architecture, experimentation, and deployment. 
• Set standards for AI reliability, interpretability, and governance tailored to claims and regulatory constraints. 
• Stay on the frontier of AI capabilities continuously evaluating new tools, models, and frameworks to apply responsibly in claims contexts. What we are looking for

Must-Have

• 5+ years of experience in applied machine learning or AI product engineering, including 2+ years working with Generative AI or LLMs.
• Deep hands-on expertise in Python, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face, or OpenAI/Anthropic APIs.
• Proven ability to design, prototype, and ship AI solutions in real-world domains (e.g., insurance, healthcare, finance, or legal).
• Strong understanding of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), prompt engineering, text-to-structure extraction, and vector database design.
• Ability to lead through influence, driving vision, technical direction, and experimentation within a small, cross-functional team.
• A track record of turning research ideas into working products with measurable outcomes.
• Experience in building machine learning models.
• Experience in applying AI to business or engineering needs.

Nice-to-Have:

• Experience in claims, insurance, or regulated data systems.
• Experience in building and running AI applications in Java (Spring AI, Langchain4j, Embabel...)
• Background in document intelligence, fraud modeling, or knowledge graph reasoning.
• Familiarity with AI safety, evaluation frameworks, and compliance practices.
• Strong communication skills capable of articulating technical insights to business and product stakeholders.

Who you are

• A builder first hands-on with code, experiments, and prototypes.
• A strategic thinker who connects emerging AI capability with tangible business impact.
• A collaborative problem solver who thrives in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
• Motivated by real-world outcomes, not just model performance.

Why Join

• Shape the next generation of AI-powered claims systems.
• Work on meaningful, high-leverage problems with real operational impact.
• Collaborate with a talented engineering team building the future of claims technology.
• Define best practices for responsible AI deployment in one of the most data-rich domains in the world

 

Annual Salary

$150,000.00 - $300,000.00

The 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.

 

At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

 

The GEICO Pledge:

Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs.

We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.

Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind.  You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.

Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose.

As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.

Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.

• 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.

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