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. 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 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. 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.
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.
Guide individual teams to help them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes.
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
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; Able to collaborate and negotiate with peers inside and outside of Engineering
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.
Standard office working environment that may be busy and noisy at times.
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. 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
~Awesome work environment with casual dress
~ 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. 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
~Awesome work environment with casual dress
~ Team events and gatherings (Pre- and Post-Covid)
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