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Senior Python Engineer

Open Home Foundation

Netherlands

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The Open Home Foundation is seeking a Senior Python Engineer to join the Home Assistant department, focusing on AI capabilities. The role involves designing and building the AI foundation of Home Assistant, including conversation APIs, LLM integrations, and agentic features, while working closely with the open-source community. The position requires 5+ years of Python back-end development experience, 3+ years with asyncio and threading, and proven experience shipping LLM-powered features in production.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Netherlands, NL

Work Model

Fully remote organization, no fixed schedule, at least 3 hours overlap

Experience Required

5 years

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)

PythonasynciothreadingLLMModel Context ProtocolOllamallama.cppGitGitHub

Soft Skills

Problem-solvingAttention to detailIndependent workWritten communicationVerbal communication

Preferred Qualifications

Technical (Nice-to-have)

Home AssistantOpen-source developmentAgentic developer toolingAI-assisted workflows

Key Responsibilities

•Design and build the AI foundation of Home Assistant: conversation APIs, LLM integrations, and typed tool layers.
•Create in-product agents that help people build and manage their homes with AI, with user approval.
•Connect Home Assistant to the agentic world through open standards like MCP.
•Grow Assist from home control into home management: make it context-aware, give it memory, and help with documentation, configuration, and diagnosing problems.
•Make AI features easy to discover, set up, and disable.
•Build AI-powered workflows for issue triage, review assistance, and contributor tooling.
•Conduct code reviews of pull requests from teammates and community.
•Collaborate with the community to investigate and address reported issues.
•Provide input on architectural proposals and changes.

PythonAILLMHome AssistantOpen SourceRemoteSeniorEngineeringNon-profit

Key Responsibilities

•Design and build the AI foundation of Home Assistant: conversation APIs, LLM integrations, and typed tool layers.

•Create in-product agents that help people build and manage their homes with AI, with user approval.

•Connect Home Assistant to the agentic world through open standards like MCP.

•Grow Assist from home control into home management: make it context-aware, give it memory, and help with documentation, configuration, and diagnosing problems.

•Make AI features easy to discover, set up, and disable.

•Build AI-powered workflows for issue triage, review assistance, and contributor tooling.

•Conduct code reviews of pull requests from teammates and community.

•Collaborate with the community to investigate and address reported issues.

•Provide input on architectural proposals and changes.