
Lead AI Engineer
Transamerica4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Base Salary
$131k - $165k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, deploy, and support AI applications, automation solutions, and digital agents.
- Deliver generative AI and agentic solutions using established frameworks and cloud technologies.
- Apply software engineering best practices to build scalable, secure, and reliable AI solutions.
- Support the full AI solution lifecycle from design through production support.
- Enhance, operate, and continuously improve enterprise AI platforms and services.
- Improve AI products, engineering processes, and technical standards through best practices.
- Support platform reliability, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Lead small projects or technical workstreams and help ensure successful delivery.
- Mentor less experienced engineers through coaching and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with business, architecture, security, and platform teams and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field.
- Eight years of experience in software engineering, AI engineering, or related disciplines.
- Two years of experience in end-to-end AI solution design, development, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.
- Experience designing and developing agentic workflows.
- Experience delivering AI solutions in cloud environments.
- Experience with AWS Bedrock and AWS SageMaker.
- Experience with OpenAI technologies, AWS Bedrock Agents, and LangChain.
- Proficiency in Kubernetes and Docker containerization technologies.
- Preferred: master’s degree in artificial intelligence, data science, or a related field.
- Preferred: experience in insurance or other regulated industries and supporting enterprise AI platforms and cloud-native solutions.
- Preferred: experience applying responsible AI, security, privacy, and governance practices.
- Preferred: professional certifications in artificial intelligence or cloud-native technologies and developer-level certifications in relevant technologies.
Benefits
- Salary range of $131,000-$165,000 annually, with eligible employee bonus opportunities.
- Benefits include a pension plan, 401(k) match, employee stock purchase plan, tuition reimbursement, disability insurance, medical, dental, and vision insurance, and employee discounts.
- Paid time off starts at 160 hours annually in the first year, with ten paid holidays per year.
- Additional programs include wellness coaching and reward dollars, paid parental leave for eligible employees, adoption assistance, an employee assistance program, backup care, volunteer PTO, matching gifts, employee resource groups, inclusion programs, recognition programs, and referral bonuses.
- Work outside normal business hours may be required for global operations, and occasional travel may be required.