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AI/ML Platform engineers are among the most actively sponsored roles in the U.S. tech industry. Employers regularly file H-1B visa and O-1 visa petitions for this specialty, and the work squarely qualifies as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards. For detailed occupation requirements, see the O*NET profile.
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At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
GEICO is seeking an experienced Sr. ML Engineer to join our AI organization. You will play a key role in the development of GEICO's virtual assistant platform that elevates productivity for 30K+ internal associates and the customer experience for millions of policyholders. You will collaborate with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop, and deploy systems that ensure productivity, scalability, and usability of GenAI workflows across GEICO.
AI Agent Platform Engineers are responsible for building key multi-tenant services that power the building, testing, simulation, deployment, and hosting of LLM-based AI agents. This includes contributing to AI agent skill ecosystems, harness and context engineering infrastructure, interoperability layers (MCP, Skills), and guardrail systems- working closely with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers who set the broader architectural direction. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of building high-performance Generative AI Systems and platforms.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building an enterprise AI agent skill ecosystem — developing services that support authoring, publishing, discovering, and versioning reusable skill packages (SKILL.md standard). Implement skill marketplace features including search/discovery, security vetting pipelines, and progressive disclosure loading.
- Build and maintain AI agent harness components — the non-model infrastructure (tool dispatch, context management, error recovery, session state) that makes AI agents reliable for long-running workflows. Implement feedforward guides and feedback sensors mixing computational and inferential controls.
- Contribute to context engineering systems that manage the LLM context window — memory management, RAG pipelines, context compaction/summarization, scratchpads, and dynamic skill/tool loading — ensuring AI agents receive the right information at the right time.
- Implement guardrail components including input validation, prompt injection defense, PII detection, output verification, and skill-level security scanning. Contribute to bounded autonomy systems, human-in-the-loop escalation paths, and audit trail infrastructure.
- Contribute to experimentation of software platforms, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, maintainability, etc.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, and designers to gather requirements, define project scope, and prioritize feature backlogs for AI agent use cases.
- Assist in the planning and estimation of software development projects, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture, elevating AI engineering best practices across the company.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, or C#.
- 4+ years of experience designing and building AI/ML platforms and systems utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engines (e.g., OpenSearch, Milvus), data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g., Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g., Airflow, Temporal), memory management (e.g., Redis/Valkey), etc.
- 3+ years' experience contributing towards end-to-end software development lifecycles (version control, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support, etc.).
- 3+ years' experience building evaluation and observability systems for AI/ML models and LLMs, especially utilizing GPU-powered infrastructure.
- Familiarity with harness engineering concepts — memory management, RAG, context/tool management, guardrails, etc.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic, cross-functional decision-making environments.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years' experience building conversational experiences and agentic workflows, leveraging open-source and proprietary LLMs.
- Experience contributing to AI agent harness infrastructure — tool dispatch, error recovery, session state management, or sub-agent coordination using feedforward/feedback control patterns.
- Experience with AI agent skill systems — building or integrating reusable skill packages, skill registries, MCP servers, etc. along with governance & control measures.
- Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
- Experience with LLM observability platforms such as LangSmith, Langfuse, etc.
- Experience building AI agent guardrails.
COMPENSATION
- Annual Salary: $105,000.00 - $230,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
THE GEICO PLEDGE:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
INTRODUCTION
At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive through relentless innovation to exceed our customers’ expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That’s why we offer The GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
GEICO is seeking an experienced Sr. ML Engineer to join our AI organization. You will play a key role in the development of GEICO's virtual assistant platform that elevates productivity for 30K+ internal associates and the customer experience for millions of policyholders. You will collaborate with a dynamic team of AI and software engineers to design, develop, and deploy systems that ensure productivity, scalability, and usability of GenAI workflows across GEICO.
AI Agent Platform Engineers are responsible for building key multi-tenant services that power the building, testing, simulation, deployment, and hosting of LLM-based AI agents. This includes contributing to AI agent skill ecosystems, harness and context engineering infrastructure, interoperability layers (MCP, Skills), and guardrail systems- working closely with Staff and Sr. Staff engineers who set the broader architectural direction. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a proven track record of building high-performance Generative AI Systems and platforms.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to building an enterprise AI agent skill ecosystem — developing services that support authoring, publishing, discovering, and versioning reusable skill packages (SKILL.md standard). Implement skill marketplace features including search/discovery, security vetting pipelines, and progressive disclosure loading.
- Build and maintain AI agent harness components — the non-model infrastructure (tool dispatch, context management, error recovery, session state) that makes AI agents reliable for long-running workflows. Implement feedforward guides and feedback sensors mixing computational and inferential controls.
- Contribute to context engineering systems that manage the LLM context window — memory management, RAG pipelines, context compaction/summarization, scratchpads, and dynamic skill/tool loading — ensuring AI agents receive the right information at the right time.
- Implement guardrail components including input validation, prompt injection defense, PII detection, output verification, and skill-level security scanning. Contribute to bounded autonomy systems, human-in-the-loop escalation paths, and audit trail infrastructure.
- Contribute to experimentation of software platforms, tools, and frameworks, balancing build vs. buy, speed to market, maintainability, etc.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, product managers, and designers to gather requirements, define project scope, and prioritize feature backlogs for AI agent use cases.
- Assist in the planning and estimation of software development projects, ensuring efficient allocation of resources and timely delivery of solutions.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers via code reviews and design sessions, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture, elevating AI engineering best practices across the company.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of professional software development experience with at least two general-purpose programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, or C#.
- 4+ years of experience designing and building AI/ML platforms and systems utilizing open-source/cloud-agnostic components such as search engines (e.g., OpenSearch, Milvus), data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake), streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka), relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL), NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra), distributed processing (e.g., Spark, Ray), workflow management (e.g., Airflow, Temporal), memory management (e.g., Redis/Valkey), etc.
- 3+ years' experience contributing towards end-to-end software development lifecycles (version control, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, testing, monitoring & alerting, production support, etc.).
- 3+ years' experience building evaluation and observability systems for AI/ML models and LLMs, especially utilizing GPU-powered infrastructure.
- Familiarity with harness engineering concepts — memory management, RAG, context/tool management, guardrails, etc.
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills to excel in dynamic, cross-functional decision-making environments.
- Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years' experience building conversational experiences and agentic workflows, leveraging open-source and proprietary LLMs.
- Experience contributing to AI agent harness infrastructure — tool dispatch, error recovery, session state management, or sub-agent coordination using feedforward/feedback control patterns.
- Experience with AI agent skill systems — building or integrating reusable skill packages, skill registries, MCP servers, etc. along with governance & control measures.
- Experience with multi-agent orchestration frameworks (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI).
- Experience with LLM observability platforms such as LangSmith, Langfuse, etc.
- Experience building AI agent guardrails.
COMPENSATION
- Annual Salary: $105,000.00 - $230,000.00
The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
GEICO will consider sponsoring a new qualified applicant for employment authorization for this position.
THE GEICO PLEDGE:
Great Company: At GEICO, we help our customers through life’s twists and turns. Our mission is to protect people when they need it most and we’re constantly evolving to stay ahead of their needs. We’re an iconic brand that thrives on innovation, exceeding our customers’ expectations and enabling our collective success. From day one, you’ll take on exciting challenges that help you grow and collaborate with dynamic teams who want to make a positive impact on people’s lives.
Great Careers: We offer a career where you can learn, grow, and thrive through personalized development programs, created with your career – and your potential – in mind. You’ll have access to industry leading training, certification assistance, career mentorship and coaching with supportive leaders at all levels.
Great Culture: We foster an inclusive culture of shared success, rooted in integrity, a bias for action and a winning mindset. Grounded by our core values, we have an established culture of caring, inclusion, and belonging, that values different perspectives. Our teams are led by dynamic, multi-faceted teams led by supportive leaders, driven by performance excellence and unified under a shared purpose. As part of our culture, we also offer employee engagement and recognition programs that reward the positive impact our work makes on the lives of our customers.
Great Rewards: We offer compensation and benefits built to enhance your physical well-being, mental and emotional health and financial future.
- Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family’s overall well-being.
- Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
- Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
- Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our GEICO Flex program, which offers the ability to work from anywhere in the US for up to four weeks per year.
The equal employment opportunity policy of the GEICO Companies provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all associates and job applicants regardless of race, color, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, disability or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state and local law. GEICO hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
GEICO reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the Company. This applies to all applicants and associates. GEICO also provides a work environment in which each associate is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all associates in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all associates and applicants.
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Frame your role as infrastructure, not research
AI/ML Platform is distinct from applied ML, you build the systems others train on. Emphasize distributed systems, MLOps pipelines, and compute orchestration in your resume. Visa officers and employers respond to infrastructure framing over vague 'AI' titles.
Target companies with established ML infrastructure teams
Large-scale tech firms and AI-native companies already have USCIS-approved H-1B specialty occupation classifications for platform engineering roles. Applying to companies with prior approval history significantly reduces petition risk and employer hesitation around sponsorship.
Clarify your degree field on every application
USCIS requires a degree in a directly related field, computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering qualify cleanly. If your degree is adjacent, document coursework in systems design or distributed computing to strengthen the specialty occupation argument.
Highlight specific platform technologies in your materials
Kubernetes, Ray, Kubeflow, Spark, and Triton inference server are concrete signals that distinguish platform engineers from generalist ML practitioners. Specificity in tooling helps employers justify the specialty occupation requirement to USCIS when petitioning.
Understand your OPT and cap-gap timeline before applying
If you're on F-1 OPT, H-1B cap season runs January through April for October start dates. Platform roles at cap-exempt universities or research labs allow year-round filing, worth targeting if your OPT timeline doesn't align with the annual lottery.
Document production-scale impact, not just model performance
Sponsoring employers need to justify a specialty occupation petition. Resume bullet points quantifying platform throughput, uptime improvements, or training cost reductions give immigration counsel concrete evidence that the role requires specialized technical expertise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does an AI/ML Platform engineer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. AI/ML Platform engineering requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, or a closely related field, meeting USCIS's specialty occupation definition. The role involves designing distributed training infrastructure, ML pipelines, and serving systems that require theoretical and applied depth. Generalist or non-technical degrees are unlikely to satisfy the field-of-study requirement without substantial supporting documentation.
Which visa types are most common for AI/ML Platform engineers?
H-1B visa is the most common path, though it requires winning the annual lottery. O-1A is a realistic alternative for engineers with strong publication records, open-source contributions, or documented industry recognition. Australians can pursue the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and far lower competition. Canadians and Mexicans may qualify under the TN visa's computer systems analyst category. Browse open roles on Migrate Mate filtered by visa type to identify which employers are actively sponsoring.
Do employers actually sponsor H-1B visas for platform engineering roles?
Yes, and frequently. Companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and AI-native firms such as Databricks and Anyscale have substantial H-1B filing histories for ML infrastructure and platform roles. DOL disclosure data confirms platform engineering titles appear consistently across LCA filings. The key filter is employer size and existing immigration infrastructure; smaller startups may be willing but slower to initiate the process.
What degree do I need to get sponsored for an AI/ML Platform role?
A bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a directly related technical field is the standard requirement. Degrees in mathematics or physics may qualify with strong systems-focused coursework. If your degree is in a less directly related field, three years of relevant professional experience can substitute for one year of education under USCIS equivalency standards, though this requires detailed documentation and an immigration attorney's support.
How competitive is the H-1B lottery for AI/ML Platform engineers?
In FY 2025, USCIS received approximately 442,000 registrations for 85,000 available slots, resulting in a selection rate around 25%. Engineers with a U.S. master's degree or higher enter a separate pool first, improving odds modestly. If you don't get selected, cap-exempt employers, universities, nonprofit research labs, and certain government entities, can file outside the lottery. TN visa, E-3, and O-1 visas bypass the cap entirely and are worth evaluating if lottery odds are a concern.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored AI ML Platform jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.