Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $188.8k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🤖 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

• Define the requirements for AI to become a trusted, company-wide capability and translate the vision into multi-quarter technical direction • Lead cross-team initiatives turning AI strategy into durable platform architecture, shared services, and operating models • Make technical tradeoffs balancing speed with security, reliability, observability, cost, and maintainability • Unblock work across AI Platform, product engineering, data, security, and infrastructure by aligning decisions across systems and domains • Establish standards and feedback loops to monitor, govern, and continuously improve AI-enabled systems • Anticipate constraints and drive technical investments supporting Root’s next stage of AI adoption • Develop engineers and technical leaders through architecture, mentorship, and systems judgment

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years as a software engineer • 3+ years leading software teams or major technical initiatives • Demonstrated ability to set technical direction and deliver results across multiple teams or a meaningful engineering domain • Deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, Terraform, secure software delivery, and production operations • Strong systems-design judgment across reliability, observability, security, cost, and long-term maintainability • Experience guiding AI/LLM platform or application architecture and evaluating novel technical approaches responsibly • Ability to drive cross-team implementation decisions, resolve ambiguity, and communicate complex topics to senior leaders • Record of shaping technical roadmaps, unlocking long-term value, and developing engineers beyond an immediate team • Excellent collaboration and influence skills with engineering and cross-functional leaders • Must be on camera for virtual interviews

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive bonus • Equity offering • Work in whatever location works best across the US • Reasonable accommodation during all aspects of the hiring process