GEICO
Distinguished Engineer, AI Applications
Palo Alto, CA, USA · Junior
No sponsorship$210k-$350kDetected 8 hours ago
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odds of building a lasting career here
61Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role90
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
Level I$152,7971 entry
Level II$187,0752 entries
Level III$221,3743 entries
Level IV$255,6534 entries
$11,374 more — $221,374 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $221,374 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here.
- GEICO is seeking a Distinguished Engineer (AI Platforms and Applications) to join our AI organization.
- This individual will serve as one of the most senior technical authorities driving the architecture, evolution, and long-term technical strategy of GEICO's Generative AI and virtual agent platforms.
Responsibilities
- Define, own, and evolve the foundational architecture for GEICO's Generative AI and agentic workflow platforms.
- Establish and drive multi-year technical strategy and roadmaps for both AI platform capabilities and Generative AI (GenAI) applications in close partnership with product and business leaders.
- Balance speed, scalability, reliability, and extensibility while ensuring platforms and GenAI applications can support future AI use cases, evolving business needs, and organizational growth.
- Influence investment decisions by evaluating build vs. buy tradeoffs and architectural choices for both the underlying platform and GenAI applications.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify high-impact GenAI applicati on opportunities and develop strategies to maximize business value and measurable outcomes.
- Lead evaluation and selection of core technologies, f rame works, and infrastructure c omponents with a emphasis on building and scaling Generative AI applications, including LLM orchestration( e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex ), agentic workflows, RAG systems, and evaluation /observability toolin g, while partnering on underling AI platform infrastructure and services to support production readiness.
- Collaborate across engineering, data science, ML, product, and design organizations to align on platform and GenAI application direction, technical standards, and business objectives.
- Drive alignment across teams by translating complex technical and business concepts into clear architectural guidance and decision frameworks.
- Partner with senior technical and business leaders across departments to promote enterprise-wide adoption of GenAI best practices and maximize organizational impact.
- Lead deep technical reviews, architectural assessments, and design discussions for critical AI and GenAI application initiatives.
Requirements
- Master's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engi neering, Statistics, or a related field.
- 1 0 + years of professional software engineering experi ence, wit h deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems.
- Deep experience with major cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.
Skills
- Serve as a final technical authority on complex architectural decisions impacting multiple products, teams, and business domains.
- Knowledge curation and management
- Search and retrieval systems
- Prompt and context management
- Workflow orchestration and action execution
- Semantic and knowledge graph systems
- Ensure architectural consistency and technical rigor across open-source, cloud-agnostic, and managed service integrations.
- Guide platform and GenAI application evolution through hands-on engagement when necessary, especially in high-impact or high-risk areas.
Compensation
- $210,000.00 - $350,000.00 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.
- Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
Benefits
- 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.
Company info
- Protecting customers through life's twists and turns with innovation and integrity.
- Great Careers: Personalized development programs, mentorship, and certification assistance.
- Great Culture: Inclusive and collaborative culture rooted in shared success.
- Great Rewards: Competitive pay, benefits, and flexibility to support your well-being and future.
- 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.
Visa & Work Authorization
- At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position
This listing is sourced directly from GEICO's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.