Allstate

AI Engineer Lead

Key aspects of the role:

Drive sales growth by engaging with interested prospective customers- all while working remote
No cold calling— Connect through inbound calls and proactive outbound calls with active insurance shoppers
Enjoy competitive compensation with a base salary + uncapped commissions
Sell reputable products from Allstate and our family of brands

Role overview

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

Job Description

At Allstate Investments, we are seeking an AI Developer who is a fast learner and rapid problem solver, capable of quickly understanding new domains, technologies, and business problems, and translating them into high impact proof-of-concept (PoC) solutions. This role requires the ability to move quickly from idea to working prototypes, validate value early, and then guide successful PoCs into scalable, production-ready AI solutions.

As a member of the Investments Technology group, your work directly supports an $80bn portfolio and an organization of 300+ experts committed to excellence, innovation, and the highest ethical standards. You will be a hands-on developer – pairing daily with other engineers and guiding adoption of LLMs, RAG, vector stores, and agentic frameworks. You’ll partner closely with product and platform leaders to build AI systems. 

You will:

Collaborate with a highly talented and diverse team of professionals

Continuously expand your skill set by learning new technologies, tools, and methodologies.

Proactively identify opportunities for innovation, with the autonomy to rapidly explore, prototype, and validate new ideas.

Play a key role in the design, development, and deployment of AI/ML solutions.

Lead the transition of AI/ML initiatives from proof of concept to scalable, production-ready solutions. 

Key Responsibilities:

Establish and socialize strong AI engineering fundamentals, design patterns, code quality standards.

Participate in projects, demonstrating technical expertise and a hands-on approach in experimentation and productization.

Partner with product stakeholders to iterate quickly on PoCs, incorporating feedback and refining solutions in short cycles.

Qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of python development

Minimum of 3 years of experience working on AI projects, with a focus on productizing AI/ML solutions.

Deep understanding of machine leaning fundamentals and ability to apply them in developing and implementing AI/ML solutions.

Experience with GenAI technologies and techniques (e.g., RAG, fine-tuning, vector stores, Agentic frameworks).

Data-driven decision making, combining robust analytical thinking with sound business judgment.

Excellent communication with both technical and non-technical team members.

Comfort with hands-on involvement in AI/ML experimentation and model development.

Solid grasp of software development principles, including design patterns, testing, and version control such as Git. (preferred)

Inquisitive nature, with a deep understanding of both technical and business aspects. (preferred)

Technical Skills Needed:

1) Programming & Engineering Excellence

Python (advanced), APIs, pipelines, and AI orchestration

Java/ReactJS (optional)

2) LLM & GenAI Engineering

Hands-on experience with LLMs (preferably GPT models)

Prompting patterns and structured outputs

Model evaluation including accuracy/faithfulness checks, hallucination mitigation, regression testing

Safety/guardrails patterns appropriate for enterprise use

3) Demonstrated ability to leverage GitHub Copilot for code acceleration:

Rapid scaffolding of code, services, APIs, and development

3) Data Skills — SQL + SQL Server, Microsoft Fabric(optional)

SQL skills

Query authoring, joins, indexing awareness

Ability to design data access patterns for AI

4) LLM & GenAI Engineering

Hands-on experience with LLMs (commercial)

Prompting patterns and structured outputs

Strong experience implementing RAG architecture with ingestion pipelines, chunking strategies

Vector database / vector search experience with Indexing, similarity search, metadata filtering

Experience with MCP patterns, Standardizing tool/context access for models and agent runtimes

Designing MCP servers/tool endpoints and integrating them into LLM apps

Experience implementing agentic workflows, A2A patterns such as multi-agent collaboration (planner/executor/reviewer/retriever roles)

8) Cloud

MS Azure Fabric preferred

9) Observability & Production Support

Experience operating and supporting AI-enabled services in production:

Logging, metrics, tracing (APM tools such as Datadog)

Model/prompt monitoring, drift signals, quality regression detection

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education

• 4 year Bachelors Degree

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Skills

Building Architecture, Emerging Technologies, Ideation, Large Language Model (LLM) Fine-Tuning, Python (Programming Language), Structured Query Language (SQL)

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is 151,700.00 – 221,675.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.

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Keys to Success

At Allstate, it’s all about teamwork, flexibility, and thinking ahead. We all contribute to the bigger picture, combining unique ideas to design innovative, more affordable protection solutions for customers.

We look for candidates with these skills to help us achieve that goal:

Learning agility
Quickly adapt to new situations, continually build new skills, experiment, and embrace new ways of doing things

Customer centricity
Deliver exceptional experience with a customer-first mindset and human-centered design

Digital literacy
Discover and apply emerging digital technology tools, data and insights.

Results-oriented
Start with measurable outcomes and drive results with speed

Inclusive leadership
Integrate diverse viewpoints into decision-making processes to enhance creativity and innovation

Together, we’re all working toward Our Shared Purpose, using our strengths to make a real difference for our people, our customers, our company, and the world around us.

Working in Sales

What We Do:
As an expert on our products and services, you can give customers personalized attention and innovative solutions to make their lives easier.

How We Support You:
Starting day one, you’ll have access to resources and incentives to keep you feeling challenged and excited about your careers.

Make An Impact:
As a member of our sales team, you’ll bring a sense of ease and support to customers looking for a better understanding of their protection options. Whether in the field or talking to customers over the phone, you’ll continue to build trust in who we are and what we do.

Working together

You’re in Good Hands® is more than a promise we make to our customers. It’s a promise we make to our employees, too.

We want you to love where you work. That starts with the freedom to be yourself. Our workplace flexibility and focus on individuality means everyone is seen, heard and respected.

When you join us, you’ll have the opportunity to push your skills to the next level with access to development programs to support your career aspirations – whatever that means for you. Because as you learn and grow, so do we.

Working here also means getting the chance to make a real impact in your community. We have been driving change for over 90 years, but the mark we leave on the world can be even greater when we work together.