Shepherd

Shepherd

Software Engineer, Applied AI

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 148 days ago
TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsDistributed SystemsFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedisVector DatabasesCloud PlatformsGraphQLMachine LearningSparkLLMsRAGAgentic AILeadershipMentoringUnderwritingRisk ModelingRenewable Energy

About the role

  • This role sits at the intersection of product engineering, AI infrastructure, and real-world insurance workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with product, engineering, underwriting, and data teams to identify high-leverage AI opportunities
  • Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered features across underwriting, pricing, and internal tooling
  • Develop AI agents and retrieval-augmented systems that extract structured insights from unstructured insurance data
  • Build production-grade AI infrastructure for model serving, inference, evaluation, and monitoring
  • Create internal AI tools that enable underwriters and operators to move faster with higher quality decisions
  • Own AI features end-to-end from ideation to production
  • Strong backend engineering experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience shipping AI-powered products into production
  • Familiarity with LLMs, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases
  • Experience integrating AI systems into user-facing or workflow-driven applications
  • Comfort with cloud infrastructure and deploying AI workloads at scale
  • A product mindset and the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into concrete AI systems
  • You have at least 5+ years of working experience (preferably as a full-stack engineer) with a track record of delivering high-impact products
  • Experience with pricing systems, financial infrastructure, or risk modeling

Benefits

  • 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
  • 🥕 Fertility benefits and family building support
  • Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
  • 🏥 Premium Healthcare
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO

Company info

  • Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered.
  • Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world - protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.
  • The infrastructure behind the AI boom - data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets - has to be built and insured.
  • But traditional carriers weren't built for this speed:
  • Complex commercial construction projects routinely wait weeks for a single quote
  • Legacy carriers rely on static applications and disconnected systems
  • Brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions
  • We built Shepherd to solve that.
  • Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners - Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others - to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
  • We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting.
  • We're closing in on the first fully agentic submission in the industry - email in, price out, no human intervention until the last mile.
  • With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another - they compound.
  • We're building:
  • Faster decisions
  • Smarter, more accurate pricing
  • Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices
  • We're not just modernizing insurance products.
  • We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
  • In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justindlevine29_today-were-announcing-our-42m-series-b-activity-7442200922291630080-z1gw?rcm=ACoAAAkOMEwBRnAAXmdnQcaOJeioCu6VCqR6Gzc&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share - bringing total funding to over $60M - led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world.
  • Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building.
  • Our investors:
  • Intact Private Capital https://www.intactfc.com/about-us/intact-ventures
  • Spark Capital https://www.sparkcapital.com/
  • Costanoa Ventures https://costanoa.vc/
  • Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/
  • Susa Ventures https://www.susaventures.com/
  • And several others
  • We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together.
  • Check out our About https://www.shepherdinsurance.com/about page to learn more.
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