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Job Description: Sr. Staff Engineer – AI Enablement & Engineering Excellence
We are looking for a Sr. Staff Engineer to define how AI changes the way our engineering organization builds software. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone with deep expertise in AI-assisted development who knows how to scale it responsibly across a large engineering org and who can strengthen the engineering foundation required to do it well.
You will own our AI adoption strategy end-to-end: evaluating and selecting tooling, designing integration patterns, building internal playbooks, and working directly with engineers to embed AI into the development lifecycle in ways that produce real, measurable outcomes. Engineering excellence (standards, architecture, process) is the platform you will build to make that adoption stick.
Pilot and operationalize AI tooling across the SDLC, including AI pair programming, LLM-assisted code review, automated test generation, intelligent observability, and agentic development workflows.
Define adoption frameworks that account for productivity, code quality, security, cost, and responsible use, not just rollout logistics.
Establish metrics that measure AI's actual impact on engineering velocity, quality, and developer experience, and report findings to engineering leadership.
Align engineering AI adoption with the broader organizational AI journey, including approved vendors, enterprise policies, and coordination with Security and Legal.
AI System Design and Technical Depth
Define engineering standards for AI-integrated development tooling: prompt engineering practices, evaluation frameworks, latency and cost tradeoffs, and observability for AI tools where outputs may vary.
Work hands-on with engineers on hard problems, including reviewing AI-integrated system designs, writing reference implementations, and unblocking adoption at the code level.
Engineering Excellence as an Enabler
Identify and close the engineering gaps that slow AI adoption: insufficient test coverage, brittle CI/CD pipelines, poor observability, and unclear code ownership.
Technical Leadership and Influence
Partner with engineering leads to embed AI practices into team workflows, onboarding, and code review culture as a sustained capability, not a one-time workshop.
10+ years of software engineering experience, with 3+ years focused on AI/ML tooling, LLM integration, or AI-assisted development workflows.
Hands-on, production-level experience with AI developer tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or LLM-powered code review and test generation.
Deep understanding of LLM fundamentals: prompt engineering, context management, fine-tuning tradeoffs, and evaluation of AI tools used in the development workflow.
Experience designing and shipping AI-integrated systems at scale, with a clear understanding of cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs.
Annual Salary
$130,000.00 - $260,000.00
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.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
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