Principal Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & AI - Remote

CSAA Insurance Group, a AAA Insurer • Remote (Sacramento, California, United States) • $0 / year • 7h ago

In order for your application to be correctly processed please sign-in before you apply Please go to Workday and click "Find Jobs" link under Career Principal Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & AI - Remote R8045 Principal Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & AI - Remote (Open) CSAA Insurance Group (CSAA IG), a AAA insurer, is one of the leading personal lines property and casualty insurance groups in the United States. We build innovative, human-centered solutions that help AAA members prevent, prepare for, and recover from life's uncertainties. Principal Software Engineer - Emerging Technology & AI - Remote As a Principal Software Engineer, you will serve as a senior, hands-on technical leader focused on emerging technology and AI experimentation. evaluate platforms, integrations, and architecture; Partnering across technology and the business, you will help shape technical standards, mentor engineers, solve complex challenges, and introduce innovative technologies and practices that improve development, quality, and delivery. Demonstrates exceptional proficiency in evaluating and applying artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI (GenAI), agentic AI, and other emerging technologies in enterprise use cases. Serves as a senior hands-on technical resource for Emerging Tech Labs, independently translating ambiguous opportunities into technical hypotheses, experiments, prototypes, and recommendations. Provides advanced technical guidance across experiments and pilots while influencing technology choices, architecture patterns, and enterprise adoption decisions. Partners with Enterprise Architecture to evaluate platform fit, integration strategy, security implications, governance considerations, and reusable patterns. Leads the technical design of proof-of-concepts, prototypes, and controlled pilots across a diverse range of technologies, platforms, and enterprise use cases. Builds sufficient working software and integrations to validate technical feasibility, architecture assumptions, platform capabilities, and key risks without over-engineering experiments as production applications. Evaluates APIs, cloud services, AI platforms, data sources, vendor products, and emerging technology frameworks through hands-on technical testing. Supports technical transition of validated concepts to the appropriate engineering, platform, or delivery teams with clear architecture and implementation guidance. Code Quality and Review Writes high-quality, maintainable prototype code and applies appropriate engineering practices for the scope and risk of each experiment. Uses modern build, integration, testing, source control, and automation practices to ensure experiments are reproducible, secure, and technically credible. Conducts technical reviews of prototype code and integrations and provides actionable feedback to improve quality, reliability, and reuse. Diagnoses and resolves sophisticated technical issues across applications, APIs, cloud services, AI platforms, data sources, and integration layers. Identifies practical approaches for testing technologies where established enterprise patterns may not yet exist, clearly documenting assumptions, tradeoffs, constraints, and risks. Innovation and Improvement Remains at the forefront of emerging technologies and methodologies, including AI/ML, GenAI, agentic AI, intelligent document processing, and related enterprise platforms. Identifies technologies and technical patterns that warrant enterprise experimentation and evaluates their relevance, maturity, limitations, and potential value. Converts experiment takeaways into reusable technical guidance, platform recommendations, reference patterns, standards input, or decision criteria. Project Planning and Estimation Provides expert input on experiment scope, technical feasibility, dependencies, data needs, risks, success criteria, and expected effort. Collaborates with Enterprise Architecture, AI Strategy & Enablement, business sponsors, Security, Data, Risk, Legal, Procurement, platform teams, vendors, and delivery organizations. Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and 10+ years of progressive experience in software engineering 10 years Software development experience Demonstrates knowledge of and experience with relevant technologies and platforms aligned to the role Cloud-native services (e.g., AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3) Build, integration, and deployment tools (e.g., Programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java/J2EE, Python, Node.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React) Holds applicable certifications aligned to the technology stack Familiarity with cloud-native services and architectures (e.g., compute, storage, and database services) Experience with software build, integration, and deployment tools supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining cross-functional projects) willing to have cameras when it matters: helping onboard new team members, building relationships, etc.) Travels as needed for role, including divisional / team meetings and other in-person meetings Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: At CSAA IG, we are a mission-driven organization proudly committed to empowering our members, our employees, and our communities to thrive . We offer a total compensation package, annual bonus eligibility for most roles, 401(k) with a company match, and so much more! Flexible Workplace: We embrace a remote-first culture through our Flexible Workplace. Most employees hold Home-Flex roles, working primarily from home, often with the flexibility to work from various locations including CSAA offices. Our flexible workplace empowers you to balance remote work with intentional in‑person moments that deepen connection and collaboration. Inclusion and Belonging: This strengthens innovation and enhances our products and services, giving us a competitive edge in the market. As climate change leads to more frequent and severe weather events, we are taking bold action to build more resilient communities and reduce our environmental impact. Submit your application to be considered. CSAA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities or other limitations. If you would like to request an accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected] you apply and are selected to continue in the recruiting process, we will schedule a preliminary call with you to discuss the role and will disclose during that call the available salary/hourly rate range based on your location. Please do not apply for this role if at any time (now or in the future) you will need immigration support (i.e., H-1B, TN, STEM OPT Training Plans, etc.). However, we have a location-based compensation structure. This role also includes an opportunity for a company-wide annual discretionary bonus, through our Annual Incentive Plan (AIP), of up to 15% of eligible pay.