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Engineering leaders routinely secure H-1B visa sponsorship from tech companies and Fortune 500 firms. Your management experience and technical background strengthen your specialty occupation case, while your leadership track record appeals to employers investing in long-term visa sponsorship. Most positions qualify for both H-1B and L-1A transfers if you're managing teams internationally.
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Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!
We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India.
The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.
Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust to drive growth at scale.
With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.
Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
About the Role
Vertafore's AI organization is moving fast — from agentic workflows to intelligent document processing and predictive analytics. These systems are in production, serving thousands of agencies and carriers across North America, and the bar for reliability, scalability, and craft is high.
We're looking for an AI Engineering Leader who leads from the front. You'll own delivery for one of our core AI product domains, managing a small team of engineers while staying close enough to the work that you're the person your team turns to when the architecture gets hard. You’ll be a hands-on leader with expertise in designing, evaluating, and shipping AI-based features.
This is not a role for someone who has stepped fully away from the code. You are an active participant in the team, reviewing PRs, making technical decisions, and writing code. Your value multiplier is the team you build and enable, but your credibility comes from the depth you bring.
Lead a High-Performing AI Engineering Team
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 4–8 engineers. Running 1:1s, setting technical direction, and creating clear paths for individual development
- Foster a culture of rigor, fast iteration, and creative problem solving. Build a team where engineers are empowered to raise problems early and move from experiment to production without unnecessary friction
- Partner with recruiting to hire strong AI engineering talent and retain it through meaningful work and clear growth
Own Technical Delivery for Your Domain
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of AI features and systems within your team's scope, from design to deployment to post-production observability
- Be the accountable technical voice for your domain: scope estimates, architectural decisions, tradeoff documentation, and post-mortems all run through you
- Work closely with a product manager to translate customer problems and business priorities into a well-sequenced engineering roadmap
Stay Hands-On at the Right Level
- Contribute meaningfully to system design, code reviews, and debugging when it matters with a focus on greenfield work, critical path systems, or when the team is blocked
- Set and uphold engineering standards for your team: testing strategy, evaluation frameworks, model observability, and responsible deployment practices
- Know when to write the code yourself and when your highest-leverage move is unblocking someone else
Build and Operate Production AI Systems
- Oversee the design and operation of LLM-powered features, ETL pipelines, agentic workflows, and/or document extraction systems
- Maintain a high bar for production quality: latency, cost, reliability, and behavioral consistency across a diverse multi-tenant customer base
- Build feedback loops and monitoring that detect model drift, degraded outputs, and edge case failures before customers do
Collaborate Across the Organization
- Work with peer engineering teams, platform engineering, and data engineering to share infrastructure, avoid duplication, and raise the AI platform's overall capability
- Communicate clearly to surface risks early, quantify tradeoffs, and clear a path to rapid development and iteration for your team
- Occasionally engage directly with customers, customer success, or implementation teams to ground your team's work in real-world usage patterns
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning, AI engineering, or applied data science
- 1–3+ years of direct people management or formal tech lead experience with responsibility for team delivery
- Hands-on production experience with one or more of: LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, document extraction pipelines, or classical ML systems
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with the modern AI engineering stack — LangChain/LangGraph (or equivalent), vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation tooling
- Experience deploying and operating AI systems in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to write a crisp design doc, run a productive design review, and give clear status to non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in B2B SaaS, insurance, financial services, or another regulated vertical
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling
- Exposure to intelligent document processing, for example parsing PDFs, structured tables, or semi-structured data at scale
- Experience with LLM observability and AI gateway tooling (e.g., LangSmith, Helicone, Portkey, LiteLLM)
- Background building systems with human-in-the-loop workflows and agentic task orchestration
Why This Role
You'll have real ownership — of a team, of a technical domain, and of shipped product used by insurance professionals across North America. You'll have leadership who is fully committed to delivering real AI value to customers and invest in your growth. And you'll be operating in an industry that is genuinely early in its AI transformation, with the data, infrastructure, and customer relationships already in place to make the work matter.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: Canada Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- Life, AD&D
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Pension Plan & Employer Match
- Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Education Assistance
- Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition
Why Vertafore is the place for you: US Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
- Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan & Employer Match
- Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
- Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education & Legal Assistance
- Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Commuter Benefits (Denver)
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
We want to make sure our recruiting process is accessible for everyone. if you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact recruiting@vertafore.com
Just a note, this contact information is for accommodation requests only.
Additional Requirements and Details:
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Located and working from an office location.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
- Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
- Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
- Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
- Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
- Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
- We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
$200,000 - $300,000 Total Compensation
Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better. Whether you’re interested in engineering or development, marketing or sales, or something else – if this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!
We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices in the US, Canada, and India.
The insurance industry runs on Vertafore. We equip agencies, MGAs, and carriers with the core digital systems, specialized AI, and data-driven foundation to eliminate distribution drag across the insurance lifecycle, spanning sales, servicing, and back-office operations.
Underpinned by unmatched speed and performance power, we are the trusted backbone that’s taking the insurance industry from friction to flow with Distribution Velocity – speed, performance, and trust to drive growth at scale.
With over 95% of the top agencies and insurers and 50% of industry compliance transactions running through Vertafore, we lead at the intersection of innovation and trust, giving insurance professionals the confidence to transform and win in the AI era.
Our reach is global, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado, and offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.
About the Role
Vertafore's AI organization is moving fast — from agentic workflows to intelligent document processing and predictive analytics. These systems are in production, serving thousands of agencies and carriers across North America, and the bar for reliability, scalability, and craft is high.
We're looking for an AI Engineering Leader who leads from the front. You'll own delivery for one of our core AI product domains, managing a small team of engineers while staying close enough to the work that you're the person your team turns to when the architecture gets hard. You’ll be a hands-on leader with expertise in designing, evaluating, and shipping AI-based features.
This is not a role for someone who has stepped fully away from the code. You are an active participant in the team, reviewing PRs, making technical decisions, and writing code. Your value multiplier is the team you build and enable, but your credibility comes from the depth you bring.
Lead a High-Performing AI Engineering Team
- Manage, mentor, and grow a team of 4–8 engineers. Running 1:1s, setting technical direction, and creating clear paths for individual development
- Foster a culture of rigor, fast iteration, and creative problem solving. Build a team where engineers are empowered to raise problems early and move from experiment to production without unnecessary friction
- Partner with recruiting to hire strong AI engineering talent and retain it through meaningful work and clear growth
Own Technical Delivery for Your Domain
- Drive the end-to-end delivery of AI features and systems within your team's scope, from design to deployment to post-production observability
- Be the accountable technical voice for your domain: scope estimates, architectural decisions, tradeoff documentation, and post-mortems all run through you
- Work closely with a product manager to translate customer problems and business priorities into a well-sequenced engineering roadmap
Stay Hands-On at the Right Level
- Contribute meaningfully to system design, code reviews, and debugging when it matters with a focus on greenfield work, critical path systems, or when the team is blocked
- Set and uphold engineering standards for your team: testing strategy, evaluation frameworks, model observability, and responsible deployment practices
- Know when to write the code yourself and when your highest-leverage move is unblocking someone else
Build and Operate Production AI Systems
- Oversee the design and operation of LLM-powered features, ETL pipelines, agentic workflows, and/or document extraction systems
- Maintain a high bar for production quality: latency, cost, reliability, and behavioral consistency across a diverse multi-tenant customer base
- Build feedback loops and monitoring that detect model drift, degraded outputs, and edge case failures before customers do
Collaborate Across the Organization
- Work with peer engineering teams, platform engineering, and data engineering to share infrastructure, avoid duplication, and raise the AI platform's overall capability
- Communicate clearly to surface risks early, quantify tradeoffs, and clear a path to rapid development and iteration for your team
- Occasionally engage directly with customers, customer success, or implementation teams to ground your team's work in real-world usage patterns
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in machine learning, AI engineering, or applied data science
- 1–3+ years of direct people management or formal tech lead experience with responsibility for team delivery
- Hands-on production experience with one or more of: LLM-powered applications, agentic workflows, document extraction pipelines, or classical ML systems
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with the modern AI engineering stack — LangChain/LangGraph (or equivalent), vector databases, prompt engineering, and model evaluation tooling
- Experience deploying and operating AI systems in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to write a crisp design doc, run a productive design review, and give clear status to non-technical stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related quantitative field
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in B2B SaaS, insurance, financial services, or another regulated vertical
- Familiarity with MLOps tooling
- Exposure to intelligent document processing, for example parsing PDFs, structured tables, or semi-structured data at scale
- Experience with LLM observability and AI gateway tooling (e.g., LangSmith, Helicone, Portkey, LiteLLM)
- Background building systems with human-in-the-loop workflows and agentic task orchestration
Why This Role
You'll have real ownership — of a team, of a technical domain, and of shipped product used by insurance professionals across North America. You'll have leadership who is fully committed to delivering real AI value to customers and invest in your growth. And you'll be operating in an industry that is genuinely early in its AI transformation, with the data, infrastructure, and customer relationships already in place to make the work matter.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: Canada Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- Life, AD&D
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Pension Plan & Employer Match
- Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Education Assistance
- Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition
Why Vertafore is the place for you: US Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
- Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan & Employer Match
- Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
- Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education & Legal Assistance
- Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Commuter Benefits (Denver)
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
The Professional Services (PS) and Customer Success (CX) bonus plans are a quarterly monetary bonus plan based upon individual and practice performance against specific business metrics. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
The Vertafore Incentive Plan (VIP) is an annual monetary bonus for eligible employees based on both individual and company performance. Eligibility is determined by several factors including: start date, good standing in the company, and actives status at time of payout.
Commission plans are tailored to each sales role but common components include quota, MBO's and ABPMs. Salespeople receive their formal compensation plan within 30 days of hire.
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
We want to make sure our recruiting process is accessible for everyone. if you would like to contact us regarding the accessibility of our website or need assistance completing the application process, please contact recruiting@vertafore.com
Just a note, this contact information is for accommodation requests only.
Additional Requirements and Details:
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Located and working from an office location.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
THE VERTAFORE STORY
Over the past 50 years, Vertafore has advanced the entire insurance distribution channel with the best software solutions in the industry. Today, we’re proud to say hundreds of thousands of Vertafore users rely on our solutions to write business faster, reduce costs, and fuel growth by increasing collaboration and streamlining processes. Vertafore leads the industry with secure, cloud-based mobile products that provide superior reporting and analytics, delivering actionable insight— right when customers need it most. We partner with other leading technology companies to deliver comprehensive solutions to improve the way our customers do business and serve their customers.
The Vertafore Way
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. That’s why, at Vertafore, it’s our mission to transform the way the industry operates by putting people at the heart of insurance technology. By focusing on our customers, becoming better every day, and delivering results you can see, we provide the level of trust and security that insurance is all about.
- Bias to Action: We're united by an innate drive to take action and make a difference in the technology and insurance spaces.
- Win Together: We work together as one team, showing empathy and respect along the way.
- Show Up Curious: We work to challenge one another to push boundaries and think beyond the box.
- Say It, Do It: We honor every one of our commitments because integrity is important to us.
- Customer Success is Our Success: We cultivate authentic relationships and follow up by actively listening to their needs.
- We Love Insurance: We appreciate the impact insurance has on the world.
Is this role not an exact fit for you? Keep an eye on our Careers Page for other positions!
Vertafore is a drug free workplace and conducts preemployment drug and background screenings.
The selected candidate must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the job responsibilities, duties, skill, or working conditions. In addition, this document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
Vertafore strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by state or federal law.
We do not accept resumes from agencies, headhunters, or other suppliers who have not signed a formal agreement with us.
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Emphasize Technical Architecture Skills
Highlight system design, technical roadmaps, and architecture decisions you've led. Employers value engineering leaders who can bridge technical depth with strategic vision, making the specialty occupation requirement easier to satisfy.
Document Your Team's Revenue Impact
Quantify how your engineering teams drove business outcomes, product launches, performance improvements, or cost savings. This demonstrates the business value that justifies visa sponsorship investment to employers.
Target Scale-Up Companies
Growing companies often need experienced engineering leaders to build teams and processes. They're typically more open to sponsorship than established firms with rigid hiring policies.
Consider L-1A for Management Roles
If you're managing teams at a multinational company, L-1A transfers often work better than H-1B for senior leadership positions. The managerial capacity requirement aligns naturally with engineering leadership.
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Immigration officers may probe whether your role is truly specialized. Be ready to explain specific technologies, methodologies, or architectural decisions that require your engineering expertise.
Leverage Open Source Contributions
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Frequently Asked Questions
Do engineering leaders qualify for H-1B specialty occupation requirements?
Yes, engineering leadership roles typically qualify as specialty occupations when they require specific technical expertise. The position must demonstrate that an engineering degree is necessary for the role, pure management without technical requirements may face scrutiny. Document the technical skills and engineering knowledge required for your specific leadership responsibilities.
What degree requirements apply to engineering leadership visa applications?
Most engineering leadership positions require a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a closely related technical field. If your degree doesn't directly match, three years of progressive engineering experience can substitute for one year of education. Advanced degrees in engineering or technical management strengthen your application significantly.
How to find Engineering Leader jobs with visa sponsorship?
To find Engineering Leader positions with visa sponsorship, use Migrate Mate, which specializes in sponsored roles across tech companies. Focus on H-1B visa and O-1 visa opportunities at startups, scale-ups, and established tech firms that frequently hire senior engineering talent. Target companies in software development, fintech, and emerging technologies that typically sponsor experienced engineering leaders for strategic positions.
How do H-1B approval rates differ for engineering management roles?
Engineering leadership roles have strong approval rates when the technical requirements are clearly documented. USCIS reviews whether the position truly requires specialized engineering knowledge beyond general management skills. Roles that combine hands-on technical oversight with team leadership typically face fewer challenges than pure administrative management positions.
Can engineering leaders use L-1A instead of H-1B for faster processing?
Yes, if you're currently managing engineering teams at a multinational company with U.S. operations, L-1A intracompany transfer may be faster and more reliable than H-1B lottery. You need one year of managerial experience abroad and must transfer to a related managerial role. L-1A also allows dual intent for green card applications.
What happens if an engineering leader's H-1B gets denied due to specialty occupation concerns?
If USCIS questions whether your engineering leadership role meets specialty occupation requirements, you can appeal with additional evidence of technical responsibilities, industry standards requiring engineering expertise, or expert opinion letters. Alternatively, consider O-1A if you have extraordinary ability in engineering, or explore L-1A if working for a multinational company.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Engineering Leader 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.