Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation
CoStar Group2 months ago
Richmond, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$152k - $202k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and delivery ownership for a portfolio of software products and platforms.
- Champion AI-assisted software development practices that improve developer productivity, code quality, reliability, and engineering efficiency.
- Use AI-powered observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, and automation to improve resiliency, incident response, and customer experience.
- Design, develop, and govern AI-powered agents, tools, skills, copilots, and workflow automations.
- Establish engineering and testing practices covering software quality, security, scalability, observability, and operational excellence.
- Promote responsible AI adoption aligned with security, privacy, compliance, governance, and quality standards.
- Apply modern quality management practices to deliver reliable, maintainable, and defect-resistant software.
- Identify intelligent solutions that streamline workflows, reduce manual effort, and accelerate business outcomes.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field from an accredited, not-for-profit, in-person university or college.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack application development.
- Track record of commitment to prior employers.
- Proven experience delivering and scaling successful software products throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript, C#, .NET, React, SQL Server, Elasticsearch, AWS, and modern cloud-native development practices.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, API design, and scalable application development.
- Experience evaluating, adopting, or developing AI-powered solutions and applications.
- Familiarity with large language models, agent frameworks, AI orchestration tools, and AI-assisted development platforms.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry analysis, automated incident detection, and operational intelligence platforms.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with engineers, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
- Preferred experience designing automated testing platforms, quality engineering frameworks, or developer productivity solutions.
- Preferred experience developing, deploying, or managing AI-powered applications, copilots, agents, intelligent search experiences, or workflow automation platforms.
- Preferred experience implementing AI-enabled data quality solutions such as enrichment, deduplication, classification, entity resolution, anomaly detection, and governance.
- Preferred experience operating large-scale cloud-native applications in AWS environments.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, vision, dental, and prescription drug coverage, plus life, legal, and supplementary insurance.
- Virtual and in-person mental health counseling for individuals and families.
- Commuter and parking benefits.
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching contributions.
- Employee stock purchase plan and paid time off.
- Tuition reimbursement, internal training, and professional and academic growth opportunities.
- On-site fitness center or reimbursed fitness center membership where available, with yoga, Pelotons, personal training, and group exercise classes.
- Employee Resource Groups, complimentary gourmet coffee and tea, fresh fruit, and healthy snacks.
- Located in Richmond, VA, with in-office work Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.
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About CoStar Group
CoStar Group builds subscription databases, analytics, and online marketplaces for commercial and residential real estate professionals, investors, and advertisers. Its portfolio includes CoStar (research and data), LoopNet (commercial listings), and Apartments.com (rental listings), generating revenue from subscriptions, listings, and advertising. The company is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CSGP) and is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, with inclusion in the S&P 500 index.