Founded in 1961, Mercury Insurance helps consumers create their ideal insurance policies and specializes in automobile, home, condo, renters, and business insurance. Recognized by
Staff Software Engineer – AI
Location
Alabama + 45 moreAll locations: Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | California | Colorado | Connecticut | Florida | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | North Carolina | North Dakota | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Maryland | Massachusetts | Michigan | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Pennsylvania | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming
Posted
24 days ago
Salary
$101.2K - $204.4K / year
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Staff Software Engineer – AI
Mercury Insurance
• Apply Generative AI techniques to solve complex business problems by identifying opportunities where AI can enhance existing software systems and create new intelligent features. • Integrate Generative AI models and capabilities into production software applications, bridging the gap between Generative AI research and practical software engineering implementation. • Evaluate and select appropriate Generative AI models, tools, and techniques for specific use cases, considering factors like performance, cost, maintainability, and business impact. • Write high-quality code that combines traditional software engineering with AI components, ensuring robust integration, proper error handling, and comprehensive test coverage. • Review and translate product requirements into technical solutions that leverage AI effectively, designing systems that seamlessly blend AI capabilities with core application functionality. • Lead design and code reviews for AI-enhanced applications, ensuring best practices in both software engineering and AI implementation while maintaining Mercury standards. • Lead multiple sprint teams to deliver AI-powered features and improvements, addressing technical challenges in integrating AI into existing software systems. • Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, and engineering teams to identify AI opportunities and translate them into practical software solutions. • Mentor engineers on how to effectively incorporate AI into their software development practices, promoting understanding of AI capabilities and limitations. • Drive practical AI adoption across teams by demonstrating how to effectively combine software engineering principles with AI technologies. • Collaborate with product managers to estimate effort for AI-enhanced features, prioritize AI integration opportunities, and deliver measurable business value through AI implementation.
Job Requirements
- Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Preferred: Master’s Degree in Data Science.
- Minimum: 7+ years software engineering experience with proven experience in cutting-edge Technologies and/or those used at Mercury.
- 3+ years hands-on experience leading multi-team engineering initiatives for building features in a distributed application systems environment.
- Preferred: 5 or more years of experience with Data Science, NLP, AI, etc.
- 5 or more years of experience working on production ready conversational AI related initiatives including leveraging closed and open source models and libraries including enterprise platform
- Experience with Agentic AI, RAG, Prompt, human in the loop evaluation
- Experience with product data analytics
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
- Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
- Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
- 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
- Engaging work environment
- Promotional opportunities
- Education assistance
- Professional and personal development opportunities
- Company recognition program
- Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more
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