Staff AI Engineer

Invitation Homes is pioneering a new industry and needs dedicated, innovative, and analytical technologists to lead our innovation and growth. As the nation’s premier home leasing company, we develop advanced technology to enhance the resident experience. We are seeking dynamic individuals who are passionate about advancing technology to the next level.

At Invitation Homes, our Staff Engineers are an essential part of our engineering leadership team and serve as a force multiplier for all our product engineering pods. You will lead design and solution architecture efforts as well as participate in the development of some of our most complex and impactful work. You will help the entire engineering team improve our craft as we build quality software in an agile environment. As a Staff AI Engineer, you will apply your expertise in building real-world AI solutions to complex business problems and serve as the subject matter expert for our technology and business teams on all things AI.

You will be at the forefront of developing customer-, partner-, and employee-facing applications and interfaces as we build the next wave of technologies that will elevate our resident experience to the next level. If you are motivated, passionate, a quick learner, and have outstanding communication skills, this role is waiting for you!

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Apply experience integrating AI solutions into real-world workflows, leveraging technologies such as AWS Bedrock, Claude, AWS Comprehend, AWS Rekognition, Salesforce Einstein, Salesforce AgentForce, and more.
• Work directly with senior technology and business executives to evaluate AI opportunities across the business, working with vendors, performing POCs, building recommendations for implementation, and then working with teams to deliver the solutions.
• Apply proven software engineering expertise to our most strategic work, combining hands-on development with strong software design and architecture, joining our delivery pods to guide and deliver this work.
• Understand the key business and organizational strategies so that we can best align and support our engineering teams to execute on those strategies.
• Work with engineering leadership to guide and execute on key engineering strategies, particularly around code quality, deployment frequency, observability, and mean time to recovery.
• Coordinate and collaborate with technology teams and business stakeholders on priorities, scope, requirements, and change management.
• Foster communication and collaboration across development teams, facilitating knowledge sharing. Broaden the perspective of engineers beyond their own area of expertise to help them grow and make better decisions.
• Identify gaps in processes and engineering practices and build capabilities to grow and improve.
• Participate in our Technology Architecture Guild, which has representatives from all areas of Technology and is responsible for aligning our architecture and technology choices to our business needs.
• Evaluate and select technologies to meet business needs, including researching, recommending, and managing technology vendors where appropriate.
• Partner with the security team to set and refine organization-wide security strategy. Foster a security-first mindset across the organization. Be vigilant for obscure security threats that may go unnoticed by others.
• Work across teams to foster a culture of architecture that enables iterative, autonomous development and future scalability. Guide individual teams to help them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or related experience
• 10+ years of experience in software development and architecture
• 5+ years of experience serving in senior leadership positions in engineering organizations

Skills/Specialized Knowledge

• Strong technologist with knowledge of various architectural styles
• Production-level implementations of AI-related technologies, such as RAG, MCP, LLMs, Machine Learning models, etc.
• Prompt engineering experience to get the most out of integrations with LLMs.
• Experience building re-usable toolkits and reference implementations that can be leveraged across the engineering organization.
• Expert level understanding of several modern technologies/languages such as: RESTful APIs, asynchronous messaging, observability, infrastructure as code, JavaScript, Node.js, SQL
• Polyglot programmer with deep roots in building distributed systems
• Proficient in building internally and externally facing APIs, and experience supporting them in large scale, mission-critical deployments
• Experience with DevOps practices and mindset
• Comfortable fostering conversation and building consensus, while making the tough decisions when needed; you know how to participate in the technical details while still empowering your team to make decisions
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to collaborate and negotiate with peers inside and outside of Engineering
• Teacher and mentor: leadership skills, empathy, and the patience to improve the developers around you

Other Requirements

• Must maintain professional appearance
• Ability to be at work on a regular and consistent basis

Physical and Mental Demands

This position will spend long hours sitting and using office equipment and computers. The position may also entail light lifting of supplies and materials occasionally, up to and including 20 pounds in addition to reaching, stooping, standing, and walking. This position requires the ability to talk, hear, compare, compute, compile, copy, analyze, coordinate, synthesize, negotiate and communicate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Work Environment

Standard office working environment that may be busy and noisy at times.

Why Invitation Homes

We stand for flexibility, opportunity, and a home that people can make their own. It’s as true for our associates as it is for our residents. Just like we help our residents live freer, we liberate our associates’ careers, too.  Our associates know that at Invitation Homes goals matter, potential is unlocked, and careers thrive. Invitation Homes isn’t just a work place it is a possibility place. Invitation Homes offers the below to each new associate:

• Competitive pay and an annual bonus program for all associates

• Generous paid time off plans including vacation accrual, sick time, volunteer time, and standard and floating holidays

• 401k with matching company contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings

• Employee resource groups: Together with Women, Asian Alliance, Black Collective, Juntos, Gen Next, and Open Invitation.

Invitation Homes truly is where possibility lives, pour a new foundation here!

Salary Range

The salary range for this position is: $118,800.00 - $205,920.00, plus individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. Actual compensation within the range will be dependent upon the individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and applicable employment laws.

Compensation and Benefits

To attract and retain top talent, we're pleased to offer competitive compensation and benefits, including:

• Annual bonus program

• Health, dental, vision, and life insurance

• Long-term and short-term disability insurance

• Generous paid time off plans include vacation accrual, sick time, standard holidays and floating holidays

• 401(k) with company matching contributions

• Awesome work environment with casual dress

• Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)

Invitation Homes is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and innovative environment with the best associates. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at humanresources@invitationhomes.com.

To all recruitment agencies: Invitation Homes does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward resumes to Invitation Homes employees.  Invitation Homes is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. 

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