AI Platform Engineer

Forestar Group; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401(K)

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Job summary

D.R. Horton, Inc. is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to advance our AI/ML platform. This role focuses on deploying scalable, secure AI workloads, building reusable services, and enabling teams to move from prototype to governed production quickly.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Python, containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability, and will contribute to architecture, governance, and advanced AI initiatives across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in ML engineering, MLOps, platform/cloud engineering or related field.
• Strong Python and containers, Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD, IaC, observability experience.
• Production deployment of ML or generative AI workloads with model serving and governance.

Responsibilities

• Engineer AI/ML platform components: model serving, gateways, runtimes, and lifecycle management.
• Build reusable platform services for RAG, embeddings, vector search, agents, and observability.
• Automate environments, deployments, testing, rollbacks using CI/CD and IaC.
• Support hybrid cloud and on-prem AI infra with GPUs, containers, storage, and networking.
• Ensure AI platform reliability, security, performance, and FinOps practices.

Skills

Python

Kubernetes

CI/CD

MLOps

Cloud

Observability

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Git

Job description

D.R. Horton, Inc., the largest homebuilder in the U.S., was founded in 1978 and is a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange. It is engaged in the construction and sale of high-quality homes designed principally for the entry-level and first time move-up markets. The Company also provides mortgage financing and title services for homebuyers through its mortgage and title subsidiaries. Please visit our website at www.drhorton.com for more information.

D.R. Horton, Inc. is currently looking for an AI Platform Engineer. As the nation's largest homebuilder by volume, D.R. Horton is transforming how it uses data, AI, and digital solutions for the next generation of homebuilding, and we pair the reach of a national enterprise with a culture built on local ownership, practical innovation, and deep business partnerships. Our teams focus on solutions that work in the field and deliver real results, not technology for its own sake. In this role, you'll have a critical opportunity to shape modern capabilities that will influence how the company operates for years to come.

The AI Platform Engineer (also known as AI / ML Platform Engineer) will help build the modern platform capabilities that move machine learning and generative AI from experimentation into secure, reliable, and scalable production use. This role will engineer reusable services, automation, deployment patterns, observability, and infrastructure that make it easier for teams to develop and operate AI responsibly. The ideal candidate is a hands-on builder who enjoys solving complex platform problems and turning emerging technology into durable enterprise capability. This role's primary scope is the AI and ML platform layer: model serving, gateways, agent runtimes, and the services that sit between models and applications. Success in this role means teams can take an AI use case from prototype to governed production in days rather than months, on a platform that is secure, observable, and cost-transparent.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Engineer model and LLM deployment, inference, serving, gateway, evaluation, monitoring, registry, and lifecycle capabilities
• Build reusable platform services for RAG, embeddings, vector search, agents, secrets, API access, workload isolation, quotas, and observability
• Automate environments, deployments, testing, rollback, and infrastructure using CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code
• Support hybrid cloud and on-premises AI infrastructure including GPU-enabled compute, containers, storage, networking, scheduling, and capacity management
• Establish AI platform reliability, security, performance, utilization, and FinOps practices
• Represent the function in cross-functional discovery, architecture, governance, operational-readiness, and continuous-improvement activities as appropriate
• Stay current on relevant data, AI, digital, software, and industry practices and apply new capabilities when they create practical business value
• Identify, shape, and pilot new opportunities where data, AI, and digital capabilities can create business value, operating with an owner's mindset and a bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly
• Conduct all business in a professional and ethical manner to serve customers and increase the goodwill and profit of the company
• Ability to travel overnight

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of ML engineering, MLOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, or related experience
• Strong Python and experience with containers, Kubernetes or comparable orchestration, APIs, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and observability
• Experience deploying and operating machine learning or generative AI workloads in production
• Working knowledge of model serving, RAG, vector databases/search, LLM gateways and model routing, agent frameworks and tool/MCP integration, evaluation, LLM observability (traces, tokens, latency, cost per task), security, and AI workload economics
• Ability to build trusted relationships across the organization, balancing enterprise standards with business needs and operating realities.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership, communicate clearly, and deliver results in an evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure, Microsoft Foundry or comparable AI gateways and model routers, NVIDIA AI Enterprise and GPU infrastructure, vLLM/NIM or comparable open-weight model serving, Snowflake AI capabilities, MLflow, Kubernetes, MCP (Model Context Protocol), or comparable technologies is preferred
• Experience in homebuilding, real estate, construction, mortgage, title, land development, sales, purchasing, finance, customer care, or another distributed operating business is a plus
• Experience working in a large enterprise with complex enterprise environments is preferred
• Experience founding, incubating, or building new products, capabilities, or businesses from the ground up is a plus

Come join a winning team with a Fortune 500 company! We are growing fast and are looking for enthusiastic attitudes and team players to join our success. We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401(K)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Vacation, Sick, Personal Time and Company Holidays
• Multiple Voluntary and Company provided Benefits

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