Senior AI Engineer

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in AI, Machine Learning Engineering, or Software Engineering with strong Python development skills and modern software engineering practices.
• Proven experience building and deploying production-grade AI solutions using LLMs, SLMs, RAG frameworks, copilots, agents, and multi-agent systems.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML foundations, including transformers, embeddings, deep learning, prompt engineering, agentic reasoning patterns, and vector databases.
• Experience developing orchestration layers (task execution, routing, planning, workflows) and seamlessly integrating AI solutions with enterprise platforms, APIs, and business systems.
• Expertise in cloud-native architectures, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE), infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform), and AI pipeline design.
• 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.
• Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines for AI/agentic systems, implementing progressive rollout strategies (canary, blue-green, and shadow deployments) with automated rollback.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to optimize complex AI systems for performance, reliability, scalability, latency, cost efficiency, and token use, as well as debugging operational failure modes.
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to take AI solutions from concept to production in complex enterprise environments.

Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Benefits

• Health care benefits
• 401K
• ESPP
• Paid time off
• Success sharing bonus

Company Description

For a full list of the various benefits The Home Depot offers, visit The Home Depot Benefits .

For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents: The pay range for this position is between $100,000.00 - $250,000.00.