Senior AI Engineer; Remote

Senior AI Engineer

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Position

Purpose:

The Senior AI Engineer is responsible for designing, building, scaling, and optimizing production-grade Agentic AI systems that drive measurable business outcomes across The Home Depot. Operating at the intersection of Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, and Software Engineering, this hands-on role translates AI concepts into enterprise-ready products.

This role involves developing scalable applications powered by LLMs, SLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) frameworks, and autonomous agents. You will build the core orchestration layers for multi-agent workflows, tool integration, and planning, alongside the infrastructure required for reliable, large-scale cloud deployment. By partnering with product, engineering, and business teams, you will rapidly prototype solutions, navigate ambiguity, and seamlessly transition cutting-edge AI capabilities from concept to production.

Required skills:

• Experience:
  
  6+ years of experience in AI, Machine Learning Engineering, or Software Engineering with strong Python development skills and modern software engineering practices.
• AI Delivery:
  Proven experience building and deploying production-grade AI solutions using LLMs, SLMs, RAG frameworks, copilots, agents, and multi-agent systems.
• AI Foundations:
  Deep understanding of AI/ML foundations, including transformers, embeddings, deep learning, prompt engineering, agentic reasoning patterns, and vector databases.
• Orchestration & Integration:
  Experience developing orchestration layers (task execution, routing, planning, workflows) and seamlessly integrating AI solutions with enterprise platforms, APIs, and business systems.
• Infrastructure & MLOps:
  Expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and AI pipeline design, with hands-on implementation of MLOps/LLMOps best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, model versioning and registries, governance, compliance, and security) across the full AI/agent lifecycle.
• AIOps & Deployment Reliability:
  Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines for AI/agentic systems, implementing progressive rollout strategies (canary, blue-green, and shadow deployments) with automated rollback, and establishing end-to-end observability (logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and automated alerting) across models, agents, and orchestration layers to ensure production reliability, performance, and cost/token efficiency at scale.
• Optimization & Debugging:
  Demonstrated ability to optimize complex AI systems for performance, reliability, scalability, latency, cost efficiency, and token use, as well as debugging operational failure modes.
• Execution &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to take AI solutions from concept to production in complex enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• 70% Delivery and Execution
  - Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable machine learning solutions;
  Documents, reviews, and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met;
  Works with Product Team to ensure user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable;
  Writes custom code or scripts to automate infrastructure, monitoring services, and test cases;
  Writes custom code or scripts to do "destructive testing" to ensure adequate resiliency in production;
  Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs;
  Creates meaningful dashboards, logging, alerting, and responses to ensure that issues are captured and addressed proactively
• 10% Learning
  - Participates in learning activities around modern software design, machine learning, and development core practices (communities of practice);
  Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
• 20% Support and Enablement
  - Fields…