Honeycomb Insurance
At Honeycomb, we're not just building technology; we’re reshaping the future of insurance.
In 2025, Honeycomb was recognized by Dun & Bradstreet as “Top 10 Best Start Up Companies to Work For” in Israel, named by LinkedIn as “Top 10 Startups in Chicago”, and Newsweek’s "Greatest Startup Workplaces in America, 2025". Through the first half of 2026 we’ve been recognized on Inc. Magazine’s "Best Workplaces" List and Forbes "Fintech 50".
How did we earn these honors?
Honeycomb is a rapidly growing global startup, generously backed by top-tier investors and powered by an exceptional team of thinkers, builders, and problem-solvers. Dual-headquartered in Chicago and Tel Aviv (R&D center), and with 6 offices across the U.S., we are reinventing the commercial real estate insurance industry, an industry long overdue for disruption. Just as importantly, we ensure every employee feels deeply connected to our mission and one another.
With over $100B in insured assets, Honeycomb operates across 23 states, covering more than 65% of the U.S. population and increasing its coverage.
If you’re looking for a place where innovation is celebrated, culture actually means something, and smart people challenge you to be better every day - Honeycomb might be exactly what you’ve been looking for.
About The Role:
As a Senior AI Engineer (GenAI), you will own production GenAI systems end-to-end, from the eval set, to the agent design, to the FastAPI handler running in production, to the dashboard you check the next morning.
You'll work directly on systems like our customer-support agent, which today drafts replies to real customers and CS reps in a regulated insurance setting ,no toy demos, no handoff to a separate engineering team.
This is a high-ownership role where your work directly influences our products, operations, and long-term AI strategy.
What You’ll Do:
- Design, build, and ship agentic workflows end-to-end, agent logic, RAG, FastAPI service, deployment, monitoring
- Build and own evaluation pipelines: golden datasets, LLM-as-judge calibration, regression tests, distribution-shift detection
- Productionize RAG pipelines grounded in insurance-specific data
- Integrate LLM agents with policy/claims systems and internal tools
- Own observability, guardrails, safety, and error handling for systems real users
Requirements
- 6+ years in AI/ML, Data Science, or applied engineering; 1-3 years shipping production GenAI applications (LLMs, agents, RAG) — not demos
- Master’s or PhD in CS, ML, Statistics, Engineering, or related , or equivalent practical experience
- Hands-on with multi-agent orchestration, tool use, and context-managed conversational systems (OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, or similar)
- Deep expertise in RAG, vector databases, embedding selection, and retrieval optimization
- Strong Python + ML foundations (PyTorch, scikit-learn, Hugging Face)
Why Honeycomb
- Build foundational AI systems in a sector ripe for innovation and modernization
- See your work deployed quickly with immediate customer and business impact
- Collaborate directly with product, engineering, and executive teams—minimal bureaucracy
- High autonomy, fast development cycles, and meaningful equity ownership
- Be part of a mission-driven company redefining what insurance technology can be
Skills Required
- 6+ years in AI/ML, Data Science, or applied engineering
- 1-3 years shipping production GenAI applications
- Master's or PhD in CS, ML, Statistics, Engineering, or related
- Hands-on with multi-agent orchestration and context-managed conversational systems
- Deep expertise in RAG, vector databases, embedding selection, and retrieval optimization
- Strong Python and ML foundations
Honeycomb Insurance Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Honeycomb Insurance and has not been reviewed or approved by Honeycomb Insurance.
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Healthcare Strength — Employees receive comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including 100% premium coverage for employees and additional support such as an HSA with company contributions.
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Flexible Benefits — A broad set of allowances and reimbursements is described, including a $600 annual perk allowance and support for home office setup plus monthly internet/phone/co-working reimbursements.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through stock options/RSUs with multi-year vesting, framed as valuable in a growth-stage company context.
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What We Do
Honeycomb was built to disrupt the real estate insurance industry. Using Artificial Intelligence and computer vision, we offer apartment buildings, condominium associations and single-family rental dwellings perfectly customized policies at unbeatable rates. Our digitally-native platform makes purchasing insurance an easy and transparent process for property owners, property managers associations directors, and retail agents.
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