Senior Software Engineer - AI

We are Builders FirstSource, America's largest supplier of building materials, value-added components and building services to the professional market. You'll feel proud of the work you do here every day to transform the future of home building and help make the dream of home ownership more achievable. At BFS, we believe building a successful career is not solely defined by a degree. Your experience, skills, and passion are just as important, if not more so. As such, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds and experience levels.

PURPOSE

Role Summary

The Senior Software Engineer - AI is responsible for designing, building, and scaling AIenabled solutions that improve engineering productivity, business processes, and customer outcomes. This role focuses on applied AI-integrating large language models (LLMs), machine learning services, and automation into enterprise systems-while maintaining strong software engineering fundamentals.

This engineer works closely with the Business stakeholders, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Application Support to deliver secure, scalable, and maintainable AI solutions aligned with enterprise standards.

Key Responsibilities

AI & Intelligent Systems Development

• Design and develop AIenabled applications using LLMs, ML services, and intelligent automation
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise platforms, workflows, and APIs
• Build prompt strategies, orchestration layers, and retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) pipelines
• Evaluate and improve model outputs for accuracy, reliability, and performance
• Implement AI guardrails including logging, auditing, and response validation

Software Engineering Excellence

• Design and develop wellarchitected, testable, and scalable software solutions
• Apply engineering best practices across design, development, code reviews, and CI/CD
• Ensure solutions meet security, compliance, and performance standards
• Write clean, maintainable code using modern programming languages and frameworks
• Troubleshoot production issues across AI and nonAI components

Collaboration & Leadership

• Partner with product owners, architects, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to other engineers
• Participate in design reviews and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
• Lead by example in responsible, ethical AI usage

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 2+ years of handson experience with AI/ML or LLMbased solutions

Technical Skills

• Experience with modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, C#, or similar)
• Experience integrating AI/ML services, including LLM APIs (Azure OpenAI, OpenAI, etc.)
• Handson experience with:
• Cloud platforms (Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Azure strongly preferred)
• REST / eventdriven APIs
• CI/CD pipelines and version control
• Solid understanding of:
• Software architecture and design patterns
• Data structures, algorithms, and system performance
• Secure coding practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building enterprise AI tools (developer productivity, workflow automation, decision support)
• Experience with RAG architecture, vector databases, and embeddings
• Knowledge of AI governance, data privacy, and responsible AI principles
• Experience with observability tools, monitoring, and performance tuning for AI workloads
• Behavioral Competencies
• Strong problemsolving and analytical skills
• Ability to balance innovation with operational stability
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and rapidly evolving technology areas
• Clear, concise communicator with technical and nontechnical audiences
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and engineering judgment

Business and Financial Acumen

• Demonstrates depth of understanding for the P&L and financial analysis
• Teaches business and financial acumen to others.
• Understands KPIs and how BFS makes money.
• Knows the different business segments and how they relate to one another.
• Understands customer sales and engagement.
• Demonstrates functional and/or technical expertise.
• Understands complex issues and demonstrates problem solving skills.
• Understands how to maximize business results regardless of industry cycle.

Results Driven

• Holds self and others accountable.
• Communicates and sets clear goals with plans to deliver.
• Manages competing priorities effectively.
• Demonstrates appropriate urgency.
• Drives to exceed expectations in alignment with our BFS SPICE values.
• Embraces and follows best practices.
• Demonstrates self-starter, can-do attitude.

Strategic Thinking and Decision Making

• Leverages resources and teams around them to solve problems and create mutually beneficial outcomes.
• Demonstrates willingness and courage to make tough decisions in a timely manner.
• Balances short-and-long term priorities
• Demonstrates proactive versus reactive thinking.
• Asks questions to identify root cause and analyze situations more accurately.

Servant Leadership

• Demonstrates humility by putting others first.
• Builds trust-based relationships.
• Leads by example with kindness and respect.
• Collaborates well across all areas of the business.
• Advocates for others
• Actively listens to understand the meaning and intent of what the other person is communicating.
• Demonstrates authenticity and encourages others to do the same.

Emotional Intelligence

• Demonstrates situational awareness - knows when and how to adjust leadership style in different situations.
• Demonstrates self-awareness - understands strengths and weaknesses.
• Demonstrates empathy - puts themselves in other's shoes.
• Assumes positive intent.

Develops and Leads Others

• Drives alignment through clear communication of vision, goals and expectations.
• Invests time on a regular basis in performance feedback and developmental conversations.
• Fosters a respectful and inclusive environment.
• Empowers, motivates, and inspires others.
• Coaches and mentors others for their development.
• Guides and persuades others to deliver positive outcomes.

Growth Mindset

• Demonstrates a growth mindset; takes appropriate risks, fails fast and forward, learns from mistakes.
• Perseveres and champions growth, even in the face of resistance, ambiguity, or possible failure.
• Thinks like an owner with an entrepreneurial spirit.
• Demonstrates and encourages intellectual curiosity.
• Continuous learner; seeks opportunities and knowledge for personal and professional growth.
• Sees possibilities over problems - actively seeks solutions.

Innovation

• Encourages out-of-the box thinking to create new ways of doing things.
• Continuously seeks to improve and simplify pain points in the business.
• Anticipates, embraces, and leads change.
• Develops and executes breakthrough strategies.

Integrity

• Does the right thing even under challenging circumstances?
• Communicates with honesty.
• Consistently treats others fairly and equitably.
• Demonstrates reliability and does what they say they will do.
• Conducts tough conversations and delivers difficult messages with kindness and respect.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

• Work is in an office setting and generally sedentary with physical effort associated with using a computer but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time.
• May be required to occasionally lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects up to 25 pounds.
• Ability to travel up to 40% during the multi-year business transformation, will likely shift down to 20% after initial business transformation is complete.

This position was posted on May 7, 2026 and we anticipate it will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period. We encourage your prompt application.

Successful, innovative, and fulfilling careers are built here, and your professional development is a high priority. We invest in your future through the latest training, tools, and technologies. Highly collaborative, we work together to solve problems and find better ways to continually grow our business and careers every day. You'll be empowered to try new things, gain new experiences, and build a career with unlimited horizons. The scale and depth of resources that being the #1 building materials distributor in the nation provides a variety of opportunities for you to explore - all in a friendly, people-first environment. Join us to be more, do more, and build more, together at BFS.

In addition to the base wage listed, this position is also eligible to earn an annual bonus subject to changes in plan design and documents and in accordance with applicable law. Eligibility and the amount of the bonus varies based on overall company success, thresholds met and other terms and conditions of the Company's active bonus policy for the respective year.

At Builders FirstSource, we offer competitive, affordable benefits designed to make life better for you and the people you love. Our goal is simple - provide great plans that help you and your family to live happier, healthier and more secure lives. This role is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and disability insurance plans, 401(k) retirement savings plan, PTO (including paid sick time), and 8 paid holidays per year (for salaried and hourly team members). Details about Builders FirstSource's benefits offerings are available here www.bldrbenefits.com.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability.

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