Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation
CoStar GroupBase 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 (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a global leader in commercial real estate information, analytics, online marketplaces, and 3D digital twin technology. Founded in 1986, CoStar Group is dedicated to digitizing the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights, and connections that improve their businesses and lives. CoStar Group’s major brands include CoStar, a leading global provider of commercial real estate data, analytics, and news; LoopNet, the most trafficked commercial real estate marketplace; Apartments.com, the leading platform for apartment rentals; Homes.com, the fastest-growing residential real estate marketplace; and Domain, one of Australia’s leading property marketplaces. CoStar Group’s industry-leading brands also include Matterport, a leading spatial data company whose platform turns buildings into data to make every space more valuable and accessible, STR, a global leader in hospitality data and benchmarking; Ten-X, an online platform for commercial real estate auctions and negotiated bids; and OnTheMarket, a leading residential property portal in the United Kingdom. CoStar Group’s websites attracted over 143 million average monthly unique visitors in the third quarter of 2025, serving clients around the world. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, CoStar Group is committed to transforming the real estate industry through innovative technology and comprehensive market intelligence. From time to time, we plan to utilize our corporate website as a channel of distribution for material company information. For more information, visit CoStarGroup.com.