AI Staff Engineer

Position Summary
The GenAI Staff Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for building and scaling an enterprise-grade Agentic AI platform that empowers users across the organization to rapidly build, integrate, and operationalize GenAI solutions with minimal friction. The engineer will ensure the platform adheres to enterprise architecture standards, security and compliance requirements, and AI governance best practices. The role includes technical leadership, platform development, and cross-functional collaboration to accelerate time-to-value for GenAI use cases.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Provides technical direction related to project deliverables for both onshore and offshore development team members.
• Reviews business requirements and technical analysis documentation to develop system implementation approaches designed to meet business objectives, while consulting with Solution/Enterprise Architects.
• Maintains and utilizes expert knowledge of, and provides system support for, two or more complex technical operating environments.
• Maintains code quality by leading code reviews and ensuring appropriate unit test coverage.
• Contributes to project deliverables by performing system administration and/or software development tasks as needed.
• Provides input and feedback for developers' and analysts' performance reviews and other hiring/promotion decisions.
• Provides Tier 2 and 3 support and resolution of open IT issues escalated by IT Customer Support.
• Reviews application performance metrics and consults with development teams on enhancement opportunities.
• Oversees the development, configuration, coding, testing, and debugging of complex new software for the Digital Development teams.
• Leads the technical design and documentation of Republic Services' Digital Platform including Angular, Node.js, Drupal, AWS, CI/CD.
• Leads and assists application programmers in defining application system scope and objectives through research and fact finding.

Additional Responsibilities (GenAI):

• Partner with product managers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to identify and prioritize GenAI use cases.
• Translate business challenges (e.g., inefficiency, risk exposure, customer friction) into AI-enabled solutions.
• Build and maintain core services, APIs, and orchestration pipelines that integrate LLMs and agentic workflows with enterprise data and applications.
• Align platform design with enterprise architecture principles, including scalability, security, observability, and resilience.
• Implement robust access controls, auditability, and compliance with AI governance and ethical standards.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated mastery of software development best practices: coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations.
• Deep understanding of object-oriented programming methodologies.
• Knowledge of Cloud architectures, services, and DevOps practices within AWS, Azure, Google, etc.
• Experience consuming RESTful web services.
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline; and/or 10 years of related experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience in software development with a focus on web and mobile technologies, including development of highly-transactional, mission-critical applications.

Pay Range: $132,600 - $182,250 DOE.

Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental and vision coverage; health care and dependent care spending accounts; short- and long-term disability; life and AD&D insurance; Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP); employee discount programs; retirement plan with generous company match; Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP); Paid Time Off.

Location: WFH in Arizona preferred, will consider remote (US).