Senior AI & ML Engineer

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An individual contributor role that provides a high level of leadership and expertise in building Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI & ML) solutions for financial services and insurance. The role will be responsible for developing data into usable information to create automated analytics solutions.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs a combination of duties in accordance with departmental guidelines:
• Lead solution design and build AI solutions to accelerate data migration from legacy to the cloud.
• Collaborates with engineers and driver the adoption of AI development tools such as Claude code
• Productionizes and operationalizes AI solutions and advanced data analysis techniques.
• Designs and builds reusable pipelines to scale AI/ML solutions in a cloud environment.
• Delivers well-styled, well-tested, and maintainable code in BQ, Python.
• Cultivates innovation by proactively proposing new ideas to deliver business value more effectively.
• Identifies the right combination of tools and frameworks to turn a business problem into an analytics solution.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies. Supports the evolution of CNA application development processes and standards.
• May perform additional duties as assigned.

Reporting Relationship

Typically, Director or above

Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities:

• Expertise in data engineering and ETL migration from legacy to modern platforms
• Expertise in building machine learning platforms and data pipelines at scale.
• Strong experience rapidly deploying AI/ML solutions to production in a DevOps environment.
• Strong coding fluency in Python. Experience with Big Query, Claude Code, RAG, LLM’s, ADK, Prompting is expected. Experience with large data sets and distributed computing (Spark).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to articulate workflows and ability to describe the logic and implications of a complex model to non-technical audiences.
• Strong SQL and data analytical skills. Familiar with major machine learning algorithms.
• Solid experience managing diverse data sources, including preprocessing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data to develop data marts for data science use cases and machine learning applications.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to work independently as well as in a team and a highly matrixed environment.
• Experience in cloud computing platforms. Google Cloud Platform preferred.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Computational Statistics, Data Science or related technical field or equivalent; Master’s Degree preferred.
• 7+ year’s work experience in data engineering, Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.
• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, information retrieval, natural language processing or data mining preferred.
• Applicable certifications preferred.

In certain jurisdictions, CNA is legally required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. In District of Columbia, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois

, Maryland, Massachusetts , New York and Washington, the national base pay range for this job level is $72,000 to $141,000 annually. Salary determinations are based on various factors, including but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. CNA offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to help our employees – and their family members – achieve their physical, financial, emotional and social wellbeing goals. For a detailed look at CNA’s benefits, please visit cnabenefits.com.

CNA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in the recruitment process. To request an accommodation, please contact [email protected].