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Job Summary:
Fortegra is seeking an Internal AI Forward Deployed Software Engineer to stay ahead of cutting-edge AI developments and advise on integrating AI solutions into their platforms. The role involves rapidly prototyping proofs-of-concept and collaborating with various technology teams to enhance their AI capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Monitor and stay current with the AI technology landscape, including new models, frameworks, tools, and research across areas such as LLMs, multimodal AI, agentic systems, and orchestration platforms, to inform internal recommendations and solution design.
• Operate with flexibility across software and data initiatives, contributing where business needs and priorities are most critical. Adapting readily to support both software engineering and data-focused projects as priorities and requirements shift will be integral to the role. Data-focused projects involve supporting our data infrastructure in terms of platform enhancements or building new data processes to support business needs.
• Engage with internal stakeholders to identify high-value AI opportunities, define use cases, and rapidly prototype tailored solutions that integrate with our APIs, data pipelines, and internal platforms for workflows such as analytics, automation, and decision support.
• Advise teams on the selection and implementation of AI solutions by assessing trade-offs across accuracy, latency, scalability, security, and cost, and guide the evolution of prototypes into production-ready applications.
• Own end-to-end delivery of AI initiatives, from ideation and scoping through prototyping, testing, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization in internal production environments. Build a sharp eye for continuously validating AI-driven processes and evaluating their outputs for accuracy, effectiveness, and trustworthiness.
• Identify reusable patterns, shared components, and platform enhancement opportunities emerging from AI projects, and partner with core engineering teams to improve maintainability, scalability, security, and operational resilience.
• Conduct workshops, demos, and knowledge-sharing sessions to educate teams on AI best practices, emerging tools, and Fortegra's evolving AI capabilities, helping drive organization-wide adoption and responsible usage.
• Operate effectively across multiple high-priority initiatives, contributing as an engineer, technical advisor, researcher, and communicator in a fast-moving and often ambiguous environment.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field required; Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline with a focus on AI or machine learning is preferred.
• 3 to 5 years of software engineering experience, including hands-on development of AI-enabled applications and solutions using modern cloud-based AI platforms such as Azure Machine Learning or Azure AI Studio. Experience with Azure is strongly preferred.
• Proven track record of rapidly building POCs and advising on AI integration strategies, with strong knowledge of current AI trends, leading model families, evaluation approaches, and practical enterprise use cases.
• Experience with developer tooling such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor is required.
• Strong full-stack engineering skills, including proficiency in React-based web development and the ability to review, understand, and refine AI-generated code. Experience designing or implementing agentic workflows is highly valued. Familiarity with FastAPI is preferred.
• Experience working with frontier models from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google within a Git-based development environment. Familiarity with GitHub-based CI/CD workflows and the use of AI tools for automated testing, including tools such as Playwright, is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work with speed and flexibility across multiple priorities, debug complex AI-driven systems, and deliver effective solutions under tight timelines.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in matrixed organizations and translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Clear commitment to continuous learning, with an established habit of staying current on AI developments through research papers, newsletters, hands-on experimentation, and industry forums.
Preferred:
• Insurance or Financial Services domain experience
• Experience building AI-enabled products or developer tooling
• Familiarity with LLMs, AI agents, and prompt engineering
• Experience with serverless and cloud-native architectures
Company:
For more than 45 years, Fortegra and its subsidiaries have delivered risk management solutions that help people and businesses succeed in the face of uncertainty. Founded in 1978, the company is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, US, , with a team of 501-1000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.