Lyft
Senior AI Software Engineer, Risk - Insurance Claims Management
$148K–$185K
San Francisco, CA +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 14, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of professional experience building scalable distributed systems.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or relevant work experience.
About the job
Leads technical direction and development of a scalable claims-management platform for Lyft’s insurance operations, using AI automation to improve claim workflows.
What you'll do
- Set the claims-management technical roadmap and provide architectural leadership across teams.
- Build reliable, scalable platform solutions and AI automation for claim workflows; integrate with internal teams and insurance partners.
- Lead code and design reviews, on-call support, and incident triage.
What they ask for
- 6+ years building scalable distributed systems with high availability, observability, and reliability requirements.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Experience developing AI features using multimodal LLMs, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and relevant AI frameworks.
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science or a related technical field, or relevant work experience.
Nice to have
- Insurance, claims management, workflow orchestration, or external-vendor experience; knowledge of AI safety and alignment.
- Background in machine learning or NLP; experience with A/B testing and experimentation frameworks.
Pay
$148,000 - $185,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, React/Next.js, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, multimodal LLMs, RAG pipelines
AI focus
Develop AI features and automation for claims workflows; improve AI performance with evaluations, agent tracing, LLM fine-tuning, RAG optimization, and feedback loops; use AI tools to enhance development efficiency.
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