Senior Python AI Engineer for Open Source Home Assistant

Open Home Foundation; Italia; In loco; EUR 77.000 - 92.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Five weeks paid time off

Paid sick leave

Parental leave (6 weeks paid, 6 weeks

Hardware budget for work equipment

Internet reimbursement

Time for personal projects

Option to work on Home Assistant side-

Descrizione del lavoro

The Open Home Foundation is seeking a passionate Senior Python developer, based in Europe, to join our Home Assistant department as a full-time Software Engineer. You will design and build AI foundations, create in-product agents, and integrate with MCP for secure, private home automation.

You will work with the open-source community to review contributions, ship LLM-powered features, and ensure the platform remains private, local-first, and flexible enough to run with both local and cloud

Competenze

• 5+ years of experience working in Python back-end development.
• 3+ years of experience with asyncio and threading.
• Built and shipped LLM-powered features in production Python: tool calling, agent loops, streaming, evaluation, and handling the many ways models fail.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers/clients, or comparable tool-calling interfaces for agents.
• Experience with local, on-device inference (Ollama, llama.cpp).
• Fluent English with strong written and verbal communication.
• European residency and eligibility to work within Europe.

Mansioni

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Conoscenze

Python back-end

Asyncio

LLM-powered features

MCP / Model Context Protocol

Local on-device inference

Git / GitHub

English fluency

European residency

Strumenti

Ollama

llama.cpp

Descrizione del lavoro

The Open Home Foundation is seeking a passionate Senior Python developer, based in Europe, to join our Home Assistant department as a full-time Software Engineer. You will design and build AI foundations, create in-product agents, and integrate with MCP for secure, private home automation.

You will work with the open-source community to review contributions, ship LLM-powered features, and ensure the platform remains private, local-first, and flexible enough to run with both local and cloud