USAA

Senior AI Ops Engineer - Application

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1 day ago
San Antonio, TX, USASenior

Base Salary

$114k - $218k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and operate ingestion and feature pipelines for application logs, traces, APM data, and business-transaction events.
  • Train, validate, tune, and retrain anomaly-detection, classification, and forecasting models.
  • Build LLM-based log parsing, summarization, and root-cause-hypothesis components with hallucination-risk controls.
  • Design event-correlation and probable-cause ranking logic to reduce application alert volume.
  • Write, test, version, and operate remediation automation with rollback, approval gates, blast-radius controls, and kill switches.
  • Instrument and monitor models and automations in production and participate in on-call rotations for higher-autonomy live actions.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or four years of relevant education and/or experience.
  • At least five years of hands-on software or data engineering experience.
  • Strong Python programming ability plus a second production programming language.
  • Experience building and productionizing ML models such as anomaly detection, classification, or forecasting using TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
  • Experience with LLM techniques including prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, and structured outputs.
  • Experience writing and testing operational automation, workflow orchestration, and runbook-as-code with rollback design and policy-controlled execution.
  • Ability to operate in regulated environments and debug live production incidents under time pressure.
  • Preferred experience includes production root-cause analysis or incident triage, guarded automation, AI evaluation and monitoring, event correlation, enterprise AIOps platforms, and model governance or model risk processes.
  • US military experience, including experience gained as a military spouse or domestic partner, is a preferred qualification.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k), pension, life insurance, parental benefits, adoption assistance, paid time off, paid holidays, and 16 paid volunteer hours.
  • Wellness programs, career path planning, and continuing education assistance.
  • Onsite work required five days per week in San Antonio, Texas; relocation assistance is not available.
  • Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

Tech Stack

PythonPyTorchscikit-learnTensorFlow

Categories

Data EngineeringML Engineering
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About USAA

10,000+ employees

USAA is a membership-based financial services company serving U.S. military members, veterans, and their families with banking, insurance, and investment products. It offers auto, home, and life insurance; checking and savings; credit cards; loans; and retirement and brokerage services, delivered primarily online and by phone. Founded in 1922 and headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, it is privately held and built around a member-owned insurance exchange and affiliated financial subsidiaries.

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