Senior Generative AI Engineer

Position Objective:
The Senior Gen Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer leads the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade AI-powered applications that leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) including Claude (Anthropic) and ChatGPT/OpenAI models within a Microsoft Azure and Databricks environment. This role serves as a technical authority, driving architectural decisions, mentoring engineering peers, and partnering with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready AI solutions that deliver measurable impact across leasing, operations, and property management domains.
Job Responsibilities: (OTHER DUTIES MAY BE ASSIGNED)
 Architect, develop, and own end-to-end delivery of enterprise AI-powered applications using Claude, ChatGPT, OpenAI APIs, Anthropic APIs, and other LLM platforms, establishing reusable patterns and engineering standards for the team.
 Lead the design and implementation of intelligent agents, copilots, agentic workflows, and knowledge management systems; define architectural guardrails and review implementations across the engineering team.
 Lead front-end architecture decisions and build highly scalable applications using React, Next.js, Angular, or similar frameworks; enforce coding standards, accessibility, and performance benchmarks.
 Design and govern secure authentication, authorization, and user management systems across AI application surfaces, ensuring compliance with organizational security standards.
 Champion user experience quality by developing and reviewing responsive interfaces that enable intuitive, high-performance interaction with AI systems.
 Drive advanced prompt engineering, multi-step agent workflow design, memory and context management, and Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based tool integrations; establish evaluation frameworks and best practices adopted across the engineering organization.
 Own AI model performance evaluation and optimization programs, defining benchmarks for accuracy, latency, cost, and user experience; lead trade-off decisions and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 Architect and develop robust, scalable backend services using Python frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django; define service boundaries, data contracts, and resilience patterns for AI-integrated systems.
 Lead design and governance of RESTful APIs and microservices that expose AI capabilities; establish API standards, versioning strategies, and documentation practices for the engineering team.
 Create secure authentication, authorization, and user management systems.
JOB CODE:IT138
WORKERS COMP CLASS: 8810
VERSION:1
MONTH/YEAR:JULY 2026
 Develop responsive user interfaces that enable seamless interaction with AI systems.
 Lead integration strategy across enterprise systems, databases, APIs, CRMs, and SaaS platforms; evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and ensure integration patterns are maintainable and well-documented.
 Architect and oversee connectivity of AI solutions to structured and unstructured data sources, including vector stores, data lakehouses, and real-time event streams; ensure data quality, lineage, and governance standards are met.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
 May assist in supervision as requested including interviewing, hiring and training employees, planning/assigning specific tasks related to assigned projects.
American Campus Communities Culture Commitments:
 Our people are devoted to a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equality in the workplace and our communities. We are committed to intentionally executing an evolving set of goals specific to inclusion, diversity, and accountability, driven by empathetic leadership and embraced by all.
 The core of American Campus culture involves everyone being fully invested in everything that we do down to picking up the smallest piece of trash in the office and around our communities. No matter their position or duration at the organization, everyone picks up trash.
 Serve as an American Campus representative and liaison in all interactions.
 Certain activities involved in this position may be photographed and/or video and audio recorded for quality control and/or training purposes. Compliance with the Photo, Video and Voice Recording Policy is a condition of employment.
Education/Experience:
 Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.; Master’s degree preferred.
 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 4 years focused on AI/ML product development.
 Demonstrated success architecting and delivering production AI systems at enterprise scale.
 Expert experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, system architecture, and the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
 Experience developing AI-powered applications using Large Language Models (LLMs), Generative AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), prompt engineering, AI agents, and frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, or MCP.
 Experience building enterprise AI solutions using OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Vertex AI, or similar platforms within Azure, Databricks, AWS, or GCP environments.
 Expert Python development experience with APIs, microservices, cloud-native applications, and frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django.
 Experience with relational, NoSQL, and vector databases, RAG architectures, AI model evaluation, fine-tuning, observability, CI/CD, automated testing, and enterprise system integrations.
 Experience implementing AI governance, responsible AI, data privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance practices.
 Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders.
Certificates/Licenses:
 N/A
JOB CODE:IT138
WORKERS COMP CLASS: 8810
VERSION:1
MONTH/YEAR:JULY 2026
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. This job operates in a professional environment. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job:
The employee is regularly required to:
 to talk/hear.
 stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to:
 sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel or crouch.
The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to:
 10 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include:
 close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Other Duties
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