Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation

CoStar Group

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Hybrid

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Richmond, VA
Salary
$152,000–$202,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
60 days ago
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Confirmed live today

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Below market

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This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $162,000–$228,400 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $177k versus about $195k for comparable roles.

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About CoStar Group

CoStar Group is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces, including CoStar, Apartments.com, and LoopNet platforms. Industry: Commercial Real Estate Data & Analytics

CoStar Group currently has 59 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $133,000–$190,000 across 59 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation

The Lead Software Engineer, AI Automation joins the Web Enterprise team to design, build, and evolve software platforms supporting a proprietary CRM ecosystem and enterprise applications. This role involves providing technical leadership and architectural direction for a portfolio of software products while championing AI-assisted development practices to improve productivity and code quality. You will build AI-powered solutions, including agents, copilots, and workflow automations, while leveraging AI for observability, monitoring, and anomaly detection. The position requires expertise in TypeScript, C#, .NET, React, SQL Server, Elasticsearch, and AWS. You will solve complex technical challenges by integrating large language models and AI orchestration tools into cloud-native environments to improve platform reliability, automate business workflows, and enhance data quality across enterprise systems while ensuring responsible AI adoption and security.

What you'll do

  • Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for a portfolio of software products and platforms.
  • Champion AI-assisted software development practices to improve developer productivity and code quality.
  • Leverage AI-powered observability and monitoring to improve system resiliency and incident response.
  • Design and govern AI-powered solutions including agents, copilots, and workflow automations.
  • Establish engineering best practices for software quality, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
  • Ensure responsible AI adoption by meeting security, privacy, compliance, and governance standards.
  • Apply modern quality management practices to deliver reliable and maintainable software solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field from an accredited, not for profit, in-person university or college.
  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience, including full-stack application development.
  • Hands-on experience with TypeScript, C#, .NET, React, SQL Server, Elasticsearch, AWS, and modern cloud-native development practices.
  • Proven experience delivering and scaling successful software products throughout the software development lifecycle.
  • Strong understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, API design, and scalable application development.
  • Experience evaluating, adopting, or developing AI-powered solutions and applications.
  • Familiarity with large language models (LLMs), agent frameworks, AI orchestration tools, and AI-assisted development platforms.
  • Understanding of observability, monitoring, telemetry analysis, automated incident detection, and operational intelligence platforms.

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