Distinguished Engineer – Search Platform and AI/ML Infrastructure Full-time

Position Summary

GEICO is seeking an experienced Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.

Position Description

Our Distinguished Engineer works with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems and identify new opportunities to apply their knowledge to solve critical problems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the Open-Source or proprietary technologies such as OpenSearch (Elasticsearch), JanusGraph, Neo4j, Ray, TorchServe, Tensorflow Serving, NVIDIA Triton, CUDA, etc.

Position Responsibilities

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will:

• Focus on multiple areas and provide technical leadership to the enterprise

• Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve complex problems
• Develop and execute technical software development strategy for a variety of domains
• Accountable for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
• Utilize programming languages like Python, C# or other object-oriented languages, SQL, and NoSQL databases, Container Orchestration services including Docker and Kubernetes, and a variety of Azure tools and services

• Mentor and help coach and strengthen the technical expertise and know-how of our engineering and product community
• Influence and educate leadership at all levels
• Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
• Analyze cost and forecast, incorporating them into business plans
• Determine and support resource requirements, evaluate operational processes, measure outcomes to ensure desired results, demonstrate adaptability and sponsor continuous learning
  • Stay at the forefront of emerging serverless trends, technologies, and best practices, and apply this knowledge to enhance GEICO’s PaaS strategies

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience in complex system design and implementation of AI/ML or Search infrastructures
• In-depth understanding of leveraging GPU/TPU in AI development lifecycle for training and inference purposes
• Hands-on experience of developing Search or Graph platforms as the lead dev.
• Fluent with at least two OOP languages such as Java, Go, Python, C++, etc.
• Good knowledge for two of the following languages: C, C# or other object-oriented languages, PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript, shell script, etc.
• Exemplary ability to design, perform experiments, and influence engineering direction and product roadmap
• Experience partnering with engineering teams and transferring research to production
• Track-record of publications history in credible conferences and journals
• In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, test automation and related tools, operations, real-time communication)
• Knowledge in ML and AI technologies
• Experience in CI/CD pipeline and related open-source tools like GIT/Jenkin/CircleCI/SonarQube
• Knowledge on Open-source monitoring software like Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience with continuous delivery and infrastructure as code
• Experience using Terraform (infrastructure as code) or Pulumi
• Expertise in Azure Functions, Azure Web Apps, and AWS Lambda is a plus
• Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Certifications are a plus
• Experience building Platforms as services on Kubernetes with Dapr
• Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches
• Ability to excel in a fast-paced, startup-like environment

Experience

• 12+ years of professional experience in building PaaS services such as AI/ML Platform, Search or Graph platform based on Kubernetes or equivalent orchestration platform running on private and public clouds
• 10+ years of experience in design, architecture and implementation of highly secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise grade platforms and applications
• 6+ years of experience with open-source frameworks
• 6+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Benefits:

As an Associate, you’ll enjoy our Total Rewards Program* to help secure your financial future and preserve your health and well-being, including:

• Premier Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance with no waiting period**
• Paid Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
• 401(k) Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Training and Licensures

*Benefits may be different by location. Benefit eligibility requirements vary and may include length of service.

**Coverage begins on the date of hire. Must enroll in New Hire Benefits within 30 days of the date of hire for coverage to take effect.

The 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.

GEICO 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. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.