StaffAIEngineer

Newfront (a WTW company) embraces a flexible work environment and supports employees working remotely, hybrid, or in-office. You'll join a team creating agentic services that invisibly handle the routine insurance work that consumes 80% of brokers' time, freeing them to focus on high-stakes strategy and relationship building. We're deploying autonomous systems that act as placement agents, fractional AI analysts, and intelligent workflow orchestrators – not just augmenting human work, but fully automating entire categories of tasks. Our approach is radically different: small, specialized teams that embed directly with the business, building production systems that deliver immediate value. This position is a salary, exempt, and full-time position and reports to the VP of Engineering, Data. This is a US-based remote or hybrid role with the option to work from any of Newfront's office locations. #LI-Remote WHAT YOU’LL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR: - Build 0-1 AI systems that transform core brokering workflows – from intelligent submission processing that auto-extracts data from 100+ page documents and routes complex commercial policies between AI agents and expert brokers, to autonomous AI that enables brokers to manage 1000+ client renewals simultaneously, owning the full stack from prototype to production. - Embed directly with brokering teams, underwriters, and operations to identify automation opportunities, building solutions side-by-side with the people who use them daily. You'll be acting as an internal FDE, where you're both engineer and business strategist. - Ship production-ready AI features that deliver measurable impact – reducing quote turnaround time by 80%, increasing broker capacity by 10x, and improving placement success rates through intelligent market matching and risk assessment. - Establish rigorous evaluation frameworks for AI in regulated insurance contexts, implementing comprehensive testing pipelines, hallucination detection, and accuracy monitoring to e