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New York, New York, United States
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Guardian Life Insurance Company: Principal Forward Deployed Engineer
Location: New York/New Jersey Area (Hybrid)
Company Overview:
Guardian Life is a Fortune 250 mutual insurance company committed to protecting our customers’ financial well-being and enriching their lives. Every day, we serve over 27 million people, guided by our values of People Count, We Do the Right Thing, and We Hold Ourselves to Very High Standards. At Guardian, we foster an innovative, collaborative technology culture with a mission to shape the future of insurance and wealth management through data and AI. If you thrive on solving complex problems, building real-world solutions, and driving transformative impact, we’d love for you to join our team.
Position Overview:
We are seeking a Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) – an individual contributor at the Principal level – to bridge advanced AI capabilities with Guardian’s business needs and deliver cutting-edge AI solutions across the enterprise. This forward-deployed, builder-led role combines deep architectural expertise with hands-on engineering and close partnership with business stakeholders to drive outcomes. You will be a senior technical authority in our AI Platform Engineering team (reporting to the Head of AI Platform Engineering & Automation) and work directly with leaders in business units like Distribution, Underwriting, Claims, Customer Service, and Operations. Your mission is to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI and agentic systems that embed into real business workflows to deliver measurable business value. You will operate under ambiguity, make high-judgment technical decisions balancing speed and long-term strategy, and ensure Guardian’s AI solutions are pragmatic, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards. This is a rare opportunity to take a builder’s mindset and bias for action into a Fortune 250 environment – applying the technical leadership, the hands-on architecture and development skill of a Principal Engineer, and the customer-focused, end-to-end ownership of a Forward Deployed Engineer.
Key Responsibilities:
What We’re Looking For (Qualifications):
Technology & Environment (Example Tools & Platforms):
This role operates within Guardian’s modern cloud and data ecosystem. While not all tools are required, experience with similar technologies will be beneficial:
Why Join Guardian’s AI Team as an FDE?
As Guardian’s Principal AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you will spearhead AI innovation at enterprise scale while directly witnessing your solutions driving business outcomes. This is a unique opportunity to move beyond strategy into hands-on delivery – you’ll both shape the strategic architecture and dive deep to build real-world AI applications used by thousands of employees and millions of customers. You will work in a collaborative, people-first culture that values integrity and high standards, with the autonomy to innovate and the backing of leadership to push the boundaries of AI in a Fortune 250 company. If you are excited to combine top-tier engineering skills, AI expertise, and business savvy to build the future of insurance with AI, we’d love to hear from you.
Salary Range:
The 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 MyHR@glic.com. 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 is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.
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 MyHR@glic.com, 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 MyHR@glic.com.
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.
