Sr AI Engineer

New York 11 days ago Remote Full-time External
848.4k - 1.2m / yr
Sr AI Engineer Location: Remote with occasional travel to New York, NY Compensation: $120,000–$170,000 + bonus A large Fortune 500 insurance company is expanding its AI & Data function. This organization has spent decades building a reputation for trust, long-term thinking, and a people-first culture. Today, they’re investing heavily in modern AI capabilities to support a diversified portfolio across insurance, financial products, and emerging digital initiatives. You’ll join a well-supported AI group that combines product managers, data scientists, AI engineers, platform engineers, and model governance specialists. The team works on a wide range of AI and GenAI initiatives, partnering closely with business stakeholders from ideation through deployment. Leadership buy-in is strong, and the environment encourages experimentation, collaboration, and continuous learning. What You’ll Do • Design and build production-grade AI and ML solutions. • Ensure AI code meets engineering best practices and high-quality standards. • Implement, optimize, debug, scale, and monitor ML models in production environments. • Work with Platform Engineers to automate deployment pipelines and tooling. • Collaborate on solution architecture, ensuring ML systems integrate seamlessly into real-world applications. What You’ll Bring • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years building AI/ML solutions. • Strong Python skills and background with ML frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, scikit-learn, etc.). • Experience developing APIs and applying modern engineering best practices. • Knowledge of NLP tooling (SpaCy, NLTK, Hugging Face). • Familiarity with AWS cloud environments and cloud-native tools. Preferred Experience • Previous exposure to Generative AI projects. • Experience with vector databases. • Kubernetes knowledge. • Experience working with MCP servers.