Lead AI Engineer
Guardian Life Insurance Company
Company websiteguardianlife.com (Guardian Life Insurance Company, opens in new tab)
Base salary $121,350 to $199,365
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in New York, NY +2 more
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- LocationNew York, NY +2 more
- WorkplaceWorkplace not stated
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (24 min ago) · observed since
All places named
- New York, NY
- Bethlehem
- Holmdel
About this job
- The employee serves as a Lead AI Engineer responsible for architecting, developing, deploying, and supporting enterprise-scale Agentic AI solutions.
- In this role, they build and implement scalable AI systems using Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, model orchestration frameworks, Agentic frameworks, and secure API solutions. These systems automate Guardian’s business processes and improve decision-making.
- They ensure AI solutions align with enterprise security, governance, and compliance requirements.
- The position requires advanced knowledge of machine learning engineering, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and various AI platforms.
- They collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, software engineers, infrastructure teams, product teams, and business partners to implement AI solutions that provide business value for Guardian.
- The role also includes evaluating emerging technologies, contributing to enterprise AI roadmap, and mentoring junior engineers. His work directly impacts operational efficiency, customer experience, and enterprise automation capabilities.
- The role also includes evaluating emerging technologies and building core AI capabilities pursuant to digital enterprise roadmap
- In this role, employee also has to mentor junior engineers.
- Work directly impacts process efficiency, client satisfaction, and corporate automation capabilities.
Salary Range:
$121,350.00 - $199,365.00The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.
Our Promise
At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals. Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
Inspire Well-Being
As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Accommodations
Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected]. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.
Visa Sponsorship
Guardian Life is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment-based visas (e.g., such as an H-1B). In order to be a successful applicant, you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship/support now or at any time in the future.
Notice Regarding Guardian’s Use of Artificial Intelligence in Recruitment
As part of Guardian’s job application process, Guardian may use artificial intelligence tools (“AI Tools") to automate the sorting and filtering of information provided by applicants as part of its preliminary screening. This preliminary screening may be used to help identify applicant materials and resumes relative to their indication that the applicant meets the requirements for the specific job for which they are applying, as specified in the listing posted on Guardian’s jobs website (Careers at Guardian at https://www.guardianlife.com/careers). At Guardian, we do not use AI Tools to substantially assist or replace human judgment or discretionary decision making in our hiring process. All hiring decisions will be made by Guardian colleagues.
Please be aware that if you apply for a specific position with Guardian, you will have the choice of opting out of Guardian’s use of AI Tools during the job application process. If you would like to request an alternative process that does not utilize AI Tools or would like to request a reasonable accommodation, within ten business days of your position application, you must email your request to [email protected], making sure to provide your name and job requisition identification number. Guardian will retain your applicant materials and resume and all information therefrom in accordance with Guardian’s document retention policy, a copy of which you may request via [email protected].
Additionally, at applicable times, Guardian will make public the most recent bias audit results for such AI tools, which may be found here.
Current Guardian Colleagues: Please apply through the internal Jobs Hub in Workday.
Source: Guardian Life Insurance Company on Workday · View original posting (opens in new tab)
Pay in context
This role's base floor ($121,350) is above 11% of the 465 Data & ML roles in New York listed on this site. Their median floor is $175,000; the middle half runs from $150,000 to $200,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingLead AI Engineer$121,350 to $199,365
Lead Specialist, Tax Accounting & Reporting$118,980 to $195,465
Lead Salesforce Engineer$118,980 to $195,465
Payroll Tax Specialist$118,980 to $195,465
Solution Architect – Corporate Functions Finance, Risk, Investments$118,980 to $195,465
Enrollment Practice Leader$118,980 to $195,465
Solution Architect - Individual Markets$118,980 to $195,465
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Lead AI Engineer (this listing) | $121,350 - $199,365 |
| Lead Specialist, Tax Accounting & Reporting | $118,980 - $195,465 |
| Lead Salesforce Engineer | $118,980 - $195,465 |
| Payroll Tax Specialist | $118,980 - $195,465 |
| Solution Architect – Corporate Functions Finance, Risk, Investments | $118,980 - $195,465 |
| Enrollment Practice Leader | $118,980 - $195,465 |
| Solution Architect - Individual Markets | $118,980 - $195,465 |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Absent from the employer's board; confirmation pending
- Closure observed on Nov 6, 2026
- fields changed
- Stopped meeting the published-salary criteria
- Reappeared on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-11-06
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: New York • Bethlehem • Holmdel
$121,350.00 - $199,365.00
- Method
- Employer text, read with fixed rules and re-verified
- Checked
- Rule set
- us-base-v2
The pay passage appears in the employer's own job text. Fixed, deterministic rules located it, and the passage below was checked against the stored copy of the posting.
What we verified
- The pay figures come from the employer's own listing, quoted exactly above.
- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
We do not verify what the employer will actually offer, whether the employer is still recruiting for the role, or anything beyond what the employer published. Full methodology.