Senior Software Engineer - AI Engineering (Remote)

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose

The Sr. Software Engineer – AI Engineering builds and delivers generative AI agent experiences for Home Depot customers. The role also supports the React front-end experiences customers use to interact with those agents. Most of the team’s work focuses on agentic production development within Google Cloud, using an AI-first approach. Engineers leverage agentic coding tools such as Claude Code to deliver software end to end, with ownership of planning, testing, and production outcomes. This role will also help evolve the team’s existing AI-first development approach by identifying gaps, researching new tools and methodologies, and bringing new learnings back to the team. The Sr. Software Engineer will join a remote team of skilled engineers and partner closely with Product, UX, and Principal Engineers to build, deploy, and support production applications. The role shares ownership of application security, resilience, performance, and production monitoring.

Key Responsibilities

50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens

20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels

20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager

Travel Requirements

No travel required.

Physical Requirements

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

2-4 years of relevant work experience

Proficiency with Claude Code or a comparable agentic coding tool, delivering tested, production-ready code autonomously across large, multi-file and multi-repo changes.

Holding AI-written code to the same standard as hand-written code through unit, functional and performance testing in CI/CD, code review and root cause analysis.

A track record of improving AI-first development practices with better tooling, shared instructions, automation or review steps.