Senior AI Engineer (Remote)
The Home Depot8 days ago
Base Salary
$100k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, scale, and optimize production-grade agentic AI systems and enterprise-ready machine learning solutions.
- Develop orchestration layers for task execution, routing, planning, workflows, tool integration, and multi-agent systems.
- Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms, APIs, and business systems.
- Implement cloud-native infrastructure, containerization, MLOps/LLMOps practices, model versioning, governance, compliance, and security.
- Build automated CI/CD pipelines, progressive canary, blue-green, and shadow deployments, rollback mechanisms, dashboards, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
- Optimize AI systems for performance, reliability, scalability, latency, cost, and token efficiency, and debug operational failure modes.
- Write code and scripts for infrastructure automation, monitoring, test cases, resiliency testing, and destructive testing.
- Provide production application support, monitor service-level objectives, and review production performance and capacity.
- Collaborate with UX, engineering, product management, product teams, and support teams to move AI solutions from concept to production.
- Mentor engineering teams and help establish AI engineering standards and best practices.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in AI, machine learning engineering, or software engineering with strong Python development skills is listed under required experience.
- Production experience building and deploying solutions using LLMs, SLMs, RAG frameworks, copilots, agents, and multi-agent systems.
- Deep understanding of transformers, embeddings, deep learning, prompt engineering, agentic reasoning patterns, and vector databases.
- Experience developing orchestration layers and integrating AI systems with enterprise platforms, APIs, and business systems.
- Expertise with cloud-native architectures, Docker, Kubernetes/GKE, Terraform, AI pipeline design, MLOps/LLMOps, model registries, governance, compliance, and security.
- Experience with automated CI/CD, progressive deployments, rollback, observability, automated alerting, and production reliability for AI and agentic systems.
- Strong cross-functional communication, collaboration, debugging, optimization, and execution skills.
- Preferred experience with Vertex AI, Gemini, Google ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar tools.
- Preferred experience with GPU or accelerator provisioning and autoscaling, feature stores, vector database operations, and production-scale AI infrastructure.
- Preferred full-stack experience with Node.js, React, REST, API design, Linux, Git, and modern deployment tooling.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, machine learning, or a related technical discipline is preferred.
- Must be at least 18 years old and legally permitted to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Health care benefits, 401K, ESPP, paid time off, and success sharing bonus.
- Remote position with typical overnight travel of 5% to 20%.
- The role has 0 direct reports and is performed primarily in a comfortable indoor setting.
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About The Home Depot
The Home Depot is a public home-improvement retailer selling building materials, tools, appliances, and installation services to DIY homeowners and professional contractors in North America. It operates more than 2,300 stores across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico and runs a large e-commerce channel, supported by private-label brands and tool rental. Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it is the world’s largest home-improvement specialty retailer.