Lead GenAI Engineer (LLM)
State Farm1 day ago
Bloomington, IL, USA +3 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$81k - $142k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and implement LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, and RAG pipelines using AWS Bedrock and AgentCore.
- Build and maintain APIs supporting AI applications, orchestration, and downstream consumers.
- Engineer governed data and analytics pipelines that feed AI and machine-learning systems.
- Use AgentCore Runtime, Gateway, Memory, and Code Interpreter primitives to deliver streaming, stateful, tool-using agents.
- Apply prompt engineering, guardrails, model-output evaluation, and responsible AI governance practices.
- Develop cloud-native full-stack applications such as chat interfaces, dashboards, and automation tools.
- Integrate AI workloads into delivery pipelines and implement secure coding and observability practices.
- Create accessible, explainable, and trusted AI-powered user experiences.
- Write technical documentation, evaluation frameworks, and test cases.
- Provide technical guidance, conduct code reviews, mentor team members, and contribute to AI communities of practice.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications, RAG pipelines, or agentic systems.
- Strong software engineering foundation covering design, development, testing, and deployment of enterprise applications.
- Experience with cloud architecture, preferably AWS, Git version control, and performance optimization.
- Experience with multi-agent orchestration patterns and tool-use frameworks such as function calling and MCP.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript for API and AI integration development.
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI safety or guardrails.
- Experience writing technical documentation, test cases, and evaluation frameworks.
- Proficiency with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Initiative in learning emerging AI technologies and contributing to team knowledge.
- Preferred experience in insurance, financial services, regulated industries, cloud contact-center applications, production GenAI systems, AI governance, and responsible AI frameworks.
Benefits
- Potential starting salary of $81,000-$142,000 annually, plus potential yearly incentive pay up to 15% of base salary.
- Hybrid work arrangement with work-from-home and office time; candidates must live or relocate within 180 miles of Bloomington, IL; Dunwoody, GA; Richardson, TX; or Tempe, AZ.
- Health, dental, vision, telemedicine, mental-health, and other wellbeing benefits.
- Annual raises, bonus eligibility, tuition assistance, training programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
- Fertility, IVF, adoption assistance, financial coaching, discount programs, and credit-union access.
- Paid time off, up to 20 days initially, parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave, bereavement leave, and community service or education support days.
- Matching gifts, community grants, employee assistance, and a 401(k) with company contributions of up to 7% of salary.
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About State Farm
State Farm is a U.S. mutual insurance group that sells auto, home, renters, life, health, and small-business coverage, plus select financial services. It markets policies primarily through a large network of local agents and earns revenue from premiums and investing customer reserves. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in Bloomington, Illinois, it is among the largest personal lines insurers in the United States.