Staff Engineer, AI Developer Experience (Remote, US)

Who We Are

Renew Home is on a mission to change how we power the world by making it easier for customers to save energy and money at home as part of the largest residential virtual power plant in North America.

We partner with industry-leading brands to better manage residential energy for users by prioritizing efficiency, savings, and comfort — and cleaner energy for everyone.

We are an Equal Opportunity employer striving to create a diverse, equitable, and inclusive work environment where everyone feels that they have a voice that is heard.

We strongly encourage candidates to check out our website at www.renewhome.com to learn more about the world-changing work we are doing.

Role Summary

At Renew Home, we are embracing AI-assisted development as a core part of how we work — and we are looking for a Staff Engineer to lead that effort from the inside. This role will help define how our engineers interact with AI tools and agents, shape the standards and guardrails that make adoption safe and effective, and continuously improve the inner loop of software development: the daily experience of writing, building, testing, and iterating on code.

You will be embedded directly within the application development teams, giving you firsthand exposure to their workflows and friction points. While other engineers across the organization already contribute meaningfully to DevX, you will bring dedicated ownership, drive prioritization, and serve as the primary point of accountability for making progress. You won't be starting from scratch, and you won't be working alone.

The application engineering teams are your primary customers. Success here means earning their trust, understanding their daily workflows, and shipping improvements they notice and value. We want someone who brings expertise and fresh ideas, and who also knows how to build buy-in, incorporate feedback, and make durable change through iteration.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role with meaningful technical leadership responsibility. You will act as a force multiplier across the engineering organization by mentoring engineers, incorporating feedback, influencing engineering culture, and helping shape how we work.

What You Will Do

• Lead the evolution of our AI Developer Experience, enabling engineers to safely and effectively leverage AI throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Drive the evaluation, adoption and governance of AI development tooling (code generation, in-editor assistance, agentic workflows), ensuring that adoption is practical, secure and measurable.
• Measure and improve the speed of common developer actions across our TypeScript/Node and Python codebases. This includes build times, pre-push hooks, linting, type checking, conformance checks, and Nx task orchestration.
• Own our devcontainer strategy, both local and cloud-based, to ensure a secure, consistent and reproducible development experience that scales across multiple concurrent projects.
• Maintain and improve local testing frameworks and developer-facing test infrastructure.
• Own and evolve shared internal libraries and configuration systems used across application teams, ensuring they are well-documented, versioned, and easy to adopt.
• Contribute to related areas including CI/CD and delivery pipelines, SDLC definition, language and library upgrade cycles (Node/Python, NPM, PyPI), developer onboarding and documentation, and observability.

Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on developer tooling, platform engineering, or developer productivity.
• Deep familiarity with TypeScript/Node and Python ecosystems — you know the package management landscape, common build tooling, and where things tend to break.
• Experience with monorepo tooling (Nx or similar) and an intuition for how to make large codebases fast to work with.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring, and improving devcontainer-based development environments.
• Practical experience evaluating and integrating AI development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Codex) including thinking carefully about standards and guardrails, not just rollout.
• Strong listening, communication, and leadership skills — you seek out feedback from the engineers you serve and know when to lead and when to follow.
• Bonuses: Experience with agentic development workflows, MCP (Model Context Protocol), tool orchestration, or AI workflow automation.
• Experience relevant to AI security including designing secure execution environments, sandboxing, secrets management, or credential isolation for AI systems.
• Experience with cloud-based or remote development environments.

What You'll Get

A full-time position, with a competitive salary based on experience. The base salary for this role is $170k - $220k. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for a target annual bonus of 15% of base salary, and participation in long-term incentive programs tied to company growth and performance. We use market data and consider your job family, background, skills, experience, and U.S. work location to determine compensation within our established pay range.

Fully remote work environment with home office set-up allowance.

Real and lived work-life balance - Company perks include no pre-set vacation limits (with a top-down culture of taking meaningful PTO every year!), parental leave benefits, and a corporate value of working sustainably and putting families first.

Competitive benefits package that includes numerous health and wellness benefits.

401(k) plan, with employer contributions to the same.

Opportunity to work with amazing people who are passionate about their mission, thriving in a fully-remote work environment, and learning and growing every day.

At this time, Renew Home is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future immigration from the company, including training plans for foreign students.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Individuals seeking employment at Renew Home are considered without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identification, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, veteran or military status, unfavorable military discharge, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.