Staff AI Engineer @ Invitation Homes | Jobright.ai
Staff AI Engineer
Dallas, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$119K/yr - $206K/yr
10+ years exp
Invitation 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.
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
- AI solutions integration
- Software engineering expertise
- Architectural styles knowledge
- Production-level AI technologies
- Prompt engineering
- Building APIs
- DevOps practices
- Communication
- Leadership skills
- Mentoring abilities
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 including 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
Single-family home leasing and management company.
Founded in 2012
Dallas, Texas, USA
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Invitation Homes has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
- 43% Represents job field similar to this job
- Engineering and Development
- Customer Service and Support
- Accounting and Finance
- Product Management
Trends of Total Sponsorships
- 2023(1)
- 2022(2)
- 2020(4)
Funding
Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$5.9B
- 2026-06-30 Post Ipo Debt· $500M
- 2025-08-12 Post Ipo Debt· $600M
- 2024-09-23 Post Ipo Debt· $500M
Leadership Team
Dallas Tanner
CEO
Allison Mullis
EVP & Chief HR Officer