Software Engineer, Applied AI
Builds and deploys production AI systems including LLM-powered features, agents, and RAG for underwriting, pricing, and risk evaluation in insurance. Requires 5+ years backend experience, hands-on AI product shipping, and familiarity with LLMs and vector DBs.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Partner with product, engineering, underwriting, and data teams to identify high-leverage AI opportunities
- Design, build, and deploy LLM-powered features across underwriting, pricing, and internal tooling
- Develop AI agents and retrieval-augmented systems that extract structured insights from unstructured insurance data
- Build production-grade AI infrastructure for model serving, inference, evaluation, and monitoring
- Create internal AI tools that enable underwriters and operators to move faster with higher quality decisions
- Establish best practices for prompt engineering, evaluation frameworks, and model reliability
- Own AI features end-to-end from ideation to production
What We’re Looking For
- Strong backend engineering experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems
- Hands-on experience shipping AI-powered products into production
- Familiarity with LLMs, RAG architectures, embeddings, and vector databases
- Experience integrating AI systems into user-facing or workflow-driven applications
- Comfort with cloud infrastructure and deploying AI workloads at scale
- A product mindset and the ability to translate ambiguous business problems into concrete AI systems
- You have at least 5+ years of working experience (preferably as a full-stack engineer) with a track record of delivering high-impact products
Bonus Points
- Experience building AI agents or multi-step reasoning systems
- Background in applied machine learning beyond generative AI
- Experience with pricing systems, financial infrastructure, or risk modeling
- Interest in transforming legacy industries with modern AI systems
Tech Stack
Frontend
React & Next.js
Typescript
GraphQL w/ Apollo
Backend
Node.js
Postgres & Redis
Typescript
GraphQL APIs
Benefits
- Premium Healthcare (100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision)
- Fertility benefits and family building support
- Unlimited PTO
- Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks
- Offices: SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, LA
- Professional Development (premium coaching, leadership development)
- Competitive 401(k) Plan
- Dog-friendly office (SF)
Skills
LLMs, RAG, AI Agents, Vector Databases, Prompt Engineering, Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Postgres, Redis, React, Next.js, Cloud Infrastructure
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