AI Engineer Lead Consultant - MedStar Health : Job Details

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. 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 leading in pricing sophistication, telematics, and device and identity protection.

Job Description

We are seeking a passionate and skilled Lead Backend Developer with hands-on experience in Generative AI technologies to join our growing engineering team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives on building scalable backend systems while integrating cutting-edge AI capabilities into enterprise applications.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using modern frameworks (e.g., Java Spring Boot, Node.js, or Python FastAPI).
• Integrate and deploy Generative AI models (e.g., OpenAI, Hugging Face, LangChain) into production environments.
• Fine-tune and optimize LLMs for specific use cases.
• Build secure, scalable, and high-performance microservices.
• Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Deploy and manage applications on cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and continuous integration processes.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 4+ years of backend development experience using Java Spring Boot or Python.
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and asynchronous processing.
• Experience working with Generative AI APIs and/or open-source models.
• Experience with LangChain, LLM orchestration, or RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines.

Familiarity with prompt engineering, embedding models, or vector databases is a plus.

Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Exposure to multi-modal AI systems and agentic AI frameworks.
• Experience with MLOps and model deployment workflows.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks like React or Angular.

Education

• 4-year Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)

Experience

• 4 or more years of experience (Preferred)

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education & Experience (in lieu)

• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

Compensation

The offered compensation range is $95,700.00 - $170,925.00 annually, based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate will be required to submit to a background check. Allstate generally does not sponsor visas for this role.

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