Senior Python Engineer

The Open Home Foundation is seeking a passionate Senior Python developer to join their Home Assistant department as a full-time Software Engineer. This role involves enhancing the Home Assistant platform by integrating AI capabilities and collaborating with the open-source community to ensure seamless contributions.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build the AI foundation of Home Assistant: the conversation APIs, LLM integrations, and the typed tool layers that every AI feature in our platform builds upon
• Create in-product agents that help people build and manage their homes together with AI, grounded in their home's actual configuration, and always with the user in control: the assistant proposes, the user approves
• Connect Home Assistant to the agentic world through open standards like MCP, so external AI systems can work with and build on the home, safely, with properly scoped permissions, and always under the user's control
• Grow Assist from home control into home management: make our assistant context-aware, give it memory across sessions, and teach it to help with documentation, configuration, and diagnosing problems, whether people speak to their home or type to it. All of it with the choice between local and cloud models
• Make AI features easy to discover, set up, and disable: AI in Home Assistant is powerful, optional, and always under the user's control
• Build AI-powered workflows that help us and our community manage and structure the largest open source project on GitHub: think issue triage, review assistance, and contributor tooling
• Conduct code reviews of pull requests from your teammates and our community, identify and resolve technical issues, ensuring we maintain high coding standards
• Collaborate with our community to investigate and address reported issues
• Provide input and help with deciding on architectural proposals and changes to our code base