Our Story
Unum Technology Centre in Carlow serves as a strategic software development and IT services centre supporting Unum, a leading provider of income protection in the US. Our team of IT professionals build solutions and critical business applications to digitally transform the way we do business.
As a senior member of the team, you will play a key role in designing AI architectures, developing intelligent applications, and establishing best practices that advance our AI capabilities across the enterprise.
The Role
- Design, develop, and deploy enterprise-scale AI and Machine Learning solutions, including Generative AI and LLM-powered applications.
- Build AI solutions using modern architectures such as RAG, AI Agents, vector search, and enterprise knowledge assistants.
- Develop and optimize AI applications on AWS using services such as Bedrock, SageMaker, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and S3.
- Lead the implementation of robust MLOps and LLMOps practices, including model deployment, monitoring, versioning, and lifecycle management.
- Design and develop APIs, integrations, and cloud-native services that enable AI capabilities across the business.
- Ensure AI solutions are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with responsible AI and governance standards.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists, and engineering teams while mentoring colleagues and promoting engineering best practice
What You Offer
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, AI Engineering, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience delivering production AI and Machine Learning solutions in cloud environments.
- Strong Python development skills and experience with modern AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, LangChain, or similar technologies.
- Hands-on experience building Generative AI solutions, including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI Agents, or vector search technologies.
- Experience designing and supporting MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, CI/CD automation, and model lifecycle management.
- Strong AWS experience, including services such as SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and S3.
- Experience with modern software engineering practices, including APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
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What We Offer
Our size and successful history in Carlow means we can offer you exceptional development and progression, supported by continual learning programs, IT Certifications & third level tuition reimbursement. We offer work-life-balance with flexible working arrangements (including hybrid) and initiatives in support of your well-being. Our attractive range of benefits and reward initiatives includes competitive compensation, 25 days annual leave, paid health insurance, pension scheme, annual performance-based bonus, paid maternity/paternity/adoptive leave, reward programs, and an opportunity to engage with charity and community activities.
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UnumSkills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, AI Engineering, or a related technical field
- Proven experience delivering production AI and machine learning solutions in cloud environments
- Strong Python development skills
- Experience with modern AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, or LangChain
- Hands-on experience building generative AI solutions, including LLMs, RAG architectures, AI agents, or vector search technologies
- Experience designing and supporting MLOps or LLMOps pipelines, CI/CD automation, and model lifecycle management
- Strong AWS experience, including SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda, ECS/EKS, and S3
- Experience with APIs, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation
Unum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unum and has not been reviewed or approved by Unum.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as starting day one and include medical coverage along with employer-provided life, short-term disability, and long-term disability. On-site amenities like a gym and café are also part of the health-and-extras package in some locations.
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Retirement Support — The retirement offering is positioned as a standout through a high employer 401(k) contribution. This retirement support is repeatedly framed as a key draw within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is characterized as generous, with additional personal days and company closure days also described. The time-off program is presented as broader than many peers on paper.
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What We Do
Unum is a company of people serving people. A Fortune 500 company, we help millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace — benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures. Our products and services meet the needs of a diverse workforce that includes four generations, growing ethnic diversity and changing family dynamics. A strong commitment to social responsibility is one of Unum's core values. In fact, we place particular emphasis on contributing to positive change in the communities in which we live and work. Helping our communities become better is a natural extension of the commitment we make each and every day to our customers — to help employers manage their businesses and employees protect their families and livelihoods. We look forward to sharing industry news, community involvement, recognition and other info we hope you find interesting and informative. We encourage your comments and feedback so we can be a valuable resource for you and get to know you a little better.
