Staff Software Engineer, AI Systems

🕒 September 1

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $188.8k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🤖 AI Engineer

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Root Inc.

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2015

🚘 Automotive

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💰 $200M Post IPO debt on 2024-11

Automotive • Consulting • Insurance

Root Inc. is an auto insurance company that uses a mobile app and smartphone sensor telematics to measure driving behavior and price policies primarily based on how safely customers drive. The company offers a "test drive" period to gather driving data, provides in-app quotes, policy management, and claims filing, and sells roadside assistance and other coverages across many U. S. states. Root targets consumer drivers (B2C) seeking usage-based insurance and emphasizes savings for safer drivers.

📋 Description

• Set multi-quarter technical direction for Root’s AI-enabled systems • Lead cross-team initiatives from ambiguous problem framing through architecture, implementation, and measurable outcomes • Connect user workflows and experiments to shared services, platform strategy, and scalable ways of working • Make tradeoffs across security, responsible use, reliability, observability, cost, usability, and maintainability • Align engineering and business leaders on priorities and decisions • Unblock work across product engineering, data, security, infrastructure, and other partners • Establish feedback loops and measures for AI dependability and adoption • Anticipate constraints and shape technical investments • Mentor engineers and technical leaders • Contribute across the AI Platform team and AI Enablement Squad

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives • Record of setting technical direction and delivering results across multiple teams or a meaningful engineering domain • Strong systems and product judgment • Experience with AI/LLM technologies and application patterns • Sound judgment about responsible, scalable AI use • Depth in cloud/platform architecture and production operations • Ideally including AWS, Terraform, and secure software delivery • Depth in hands-on AI enablement and user-centered problem discovery • Ability to translate experiments into products or operating models • Ability to drive cross-team decisions • Ability to communicate complex ideas to senior technical and non-technical leaders • Ability to develop engineers beyond your immediate team • Candidates must be on camera for virtual interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive bonus • Equity offering • Work in whatever location works best across the US • Reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process