Invitation Homes · 16 hours ago
Staff AI Engineer
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$119K/yr - $206K/yr
10+ years expInvitation Homes is pioneering a new industry and needs dedicated, innovative, and analytical technologists to lead our innovation and growth. As a Staff AI Engineer, you will lead design and solution architecture efforts, applying your expertise in building real-world AI solutions to complex business problems while collaborating with technology and business executives.
Home ServicesService IndustrySocial Impact
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Must maintain professional appearance
Ability to be at work on a regular and consistent basis
Benefits
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.
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)
Company
Invitation Homes
Invitation Homes specializes in acquiring single family homes in situations such as foreclosure or short sale, rehabilitating, leasing.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (1)
2022 (2)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.4B2025-08-12Post Ipo Debt· $600M
2024-09-23Post Ipo Debt· $500M
2024-09-09Post Ipo Debt· $3.5B
Leadership Team
Dallas Tanner
Founder & CEO
Greg Van Winkle
SVP Finance & Corporate Development
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