Principal Engineer

Location: US - Remote

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

As AI explodes in use cases it drives a parabolic increase in the amount of safeguarding required to leverage the technologies with integrity. This role will have to partner closely with the delivery organizations leveraging agentic solutions to ensure the appropriate safeguarding and controls are in place. This organization builds product alongside delivery teams to ensure adoption of controls is organic with the way digital product teams deliver solutions on behalf of our customers.

Focal areas in this space navigate around use cases for frontier models like identifying toxic combinations of vulnerabilities that could pose imminent threat, the ability to automatically remediate those vulnerabilities, how we leverage open weight models, the way we want to scrutinize token consumption, building of small language models, and even recommending which models to use in which situations. The role will continue to evolve as agentic solutions evolve, so this role must be focused on emerging trends and have the ability to shape the organization as the industry changes.

As a Principal Engineer, this role will have leadership for all engineered solutions for how we think of AI based control implementation across the enterprise.

As a Director, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. You can work remotely and will commute to a nearby office and/or travel for meaningful connection opportunities.

Job Summary

The Principal Software Engineering Director has accountability for leading the discovery and delivery of innovative technical solutions that enable business outcomes in compliance with enterprise target state architectures. The incumbent has direct leadership over critical groups with significant Allstate technology responsibilities. Directs groups that are more heavily resourced with more senior staff and are responsible for more technically complex or strategically important parts of Allstate’s technology.

The Software Engineering Director is expected to build relationships throughout the organization to ensure whole-company alignment support Allstate technologies. They apply a systematic application of scientific and technological knowledge, methods, and experience to lead in the design, implementation, testing, and documentation of software. They own and manage the running of Allstate technology applications in production and ultimately are accountable for the success of Allstate technologies that include digital products through achieving KPIs.

The Director leads an outcome-based delivery organization, highly matrixed, and globally dispersed.