Principal Software Engineer – GRS Innovation (Generative AI)
Liberty Mutual1 day ago
Boston, MA, USA +4 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$120k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build generative AI proofs of concept and initial pilots for commercial and specialty insurance problems.
- Develop intelligent document processing, extraction, summarization, question answering, conversational, retrieval-augmented generation, and AI-agent capabilities.
- Evaluate models, frameworks, and architectural patterns using repeatable measures of quality, reliability, safety, scalability, and business value.
- Create reference implementations, reusable components, APIs, integrations, UIs, automation, documentation, and deployment guidance for production adoption.
- Partner with architects, technical leads, product owners, business leaders, application teams, data professionals, and enterprise AI teams on ambiguous problems.
- Shape technical direction across multiple initiatives and influence architecture beyond the immediate team.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, design reviews, technical guidance, demonstrations, and training.
- Share reusable patterns, lessons, and standards for building and evaluating AI-enabled solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and building generative AI applications beyond using AI-assisted development tools.
- Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, agents and tool use, prompt and context engineering, model integration, and structured-output generation.
- Experience evaluating GenAI solutions for quality, reliability, safety, and business usefulness using repeatable testing and evaluation practices.
- Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Experience with AI frameworks, model APIs, vector search technologies, orchestration toolkits, or similar GenAI ecosystem components.
- Experience designing APIs, integrations, automation, and reusable software components.
- Experience developing cloud-native applications on AWS or a comparable cloud platform.
- Experience with automated testing, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software-delivery practices.
- Ability to independently advance work in ambiguous problem spaces and communicate technical recommendations to senior leadership.
- Preferred experience includes intelligent document processing, document understanding, multimodal AI, enterprise context management, knowledge retrieval, data grounding, responsible AI, mentoring, regulated enterprises, and commercial or specialty insurance.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with two days onsite per week.
- Open to candidates in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Boston, Massachusetts; Plano, Texas; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Columbus, Ohio.
- Comprehensive benefits, workplace flexibility, professional development opportunities, and Employee Resource Groups are offered.
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About Liberty Mutual
Liberty Mutual is a global mutual insurance company that provides property-casualty coverage and related services to individuals and businesses, including auto, home, renters, small commercial, specialty, surety, and reinsurance. It distributes policies directly and through brokers and partners, and also manages an investment arm deploying long-term capital. Founded in 1912 and headquartered in Boston, it is a Fortune 100 insurer operating in more than 25 countries.