Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Root Inc. is an insurance technology company building flexible technology platforms for innovative auto insurance products. The Senior Software Engineer, AI Platform will build reliable, secure, and usable AI infrastructure, tooling, and operating patterns while independently owning complex engineering problems and enabling responsible AI adoption across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Make safe, reliable AI use the easy path for Root teams by building the services, developer tools, and deployment patterns they can depend on
- Turn early demand and complex engineering problems into reusable platform capabilities, from AWS infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code to AI system operations
- Give teams confidence to ship by building in security, observability, reliability, and cost awareness from the start
- Reduce the friction between a promising AI idea and a production-ready capability through self-service tools and thoughtful developer experience
- Work alongside product engineering, data, security, and platform partners to turn their highest-leverage needs into shared solutions
- Help establish the technical standards, documentation, and design practices that make responsible AI development repeatable at Root
Skills
- 4+ years as a software engineer
- Demonstrated ability to independently deliver complex software or infrastructure work with high quality
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
- Strong DevOps practices, including automation, observability, incident response, and secure delivery
- Familiarity with AI/LLM application patterns and the judgment to use them responsibly
- A platform-as-a-product mindset and ability to work across systems within a domain
- Clear communication and effective collaboration with engineers and immediate cross-functional partners
Benefits
- Eligible for competitive bonus and equity offering
- Root is a "work where it works best" company. This means we will support you working in whatever location that works best for you across the US.
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