AI Engineer - Application Development
Applied Underwriters
- Location
- Onsite (New York, New York)
- Compensation
- $100k - $120k/yr
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Entry Level
About the role
United Risk, affiliated with Applied Underwriters, is building AI-powered tools to help underwriters and operations staff work quicker and smarter. As an AI Engineer, you will design and ship applications and workflows while collaborating with senior engineers on data infrastructure.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
Perks
- Tuition reimbursement
- Fitness reimbursement
Full job details
United Risk is a global property and casualty insurance underwriting and distribution platform. It is independently owned and operated by its practice partners and affiliated with Applied Underwriters. Our practices cover specialty casualty and property, surety, financial lines, aviation, crisis and political risk, marine, fine art and more. Each one is led by underwriters who run their specialty with real autonomy.
Our AI team builds the tools that make those underwriters quicker and smarter. That includes submission ingestion, underwriting workbenches, risk analysis, and automation across the back and middle office. Our focus is to deliver tailored solutions to improve efficiency, while also maintaining our standards to security and compliance.
The Role:
You'll be one of a small group of AI Engineers. You'll work directly with underwriters and operations staff. You'll adapt the products we already run to their needs, and build new ones where nothing fits.
This role leans toward application development: designing and shipping the AI-powered apps and workflows people use every day. Everyone on the team also works on data and infrastructure. Three senior AI engineers review your work and teach you along the way.
\n- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or a related field
- 0–4 years of experience, including internships and co-ops
- Strong Python and working SQL
- Hands-on full-stack development experience
- Work you built yourself and can show us. For this role, that means one or more of:
- A full-stack AI application
- A document-processing or structured-extraction tool
- An agentic workflow or tool integration
- A human review or approval process built into an app
- Curiosity about how the business runs, and the patience to learn insurance from the people who know it
- Clear communication with non-technical colleagues
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees.
- 401(k) plan with 100% immediate vesting and a 4% company match.
- Paid time off (PTO) and paid holidays.
- Life, disability, critical illness and accident insurance.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for health, dependent care, and commuter-related expenses.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Fitness reimbursement and various additional quality-of-life benefits.
How to apply
Apply through this posting with your résumé and a link to your GitHub, a deployed app or a portfolio. We review portfolios first. If you're shortlisted, you'll walk one of our senior engineers through a project you built and the choices you made.
United Risk is independently owned and operated by its practice partners and is affiliated with Applied Underwriters through its common and powerful brand identity.