Staff Engineer – GenAI Tooling & Developer Experience

About the role

As a GenAI Tooling & Developer Experience Engineer on the HMS DevOps Team, you will design, develop, and maintain the GenAI tooling that accelerates the development velocity of your fellow software engineers. You will collaborate with robotics and autonomy software engineers to understand their workflows, remove friction, and enable effective GenAI‑assisted development in both commercial and government environments while meeting requirements for secure, controlled data.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain GenAI‑enabled developer tools for C++, Python, and Node.js software projects.
• Partner with robotics and autonomy engineers to identify high‑friction workflows and convert them into secure, repeatable GenAI‑assisted tooling.
• Extend our custom GenAI harness with Python or Bash tools, secure LLM routing, audited execution paths, and local containerized environments.
• Build integrations across GitLab, Jira, Confluence, and internal developer systems to provide GenAI tools with useful engineering context.
• Improve build, test, and developer‑environment workflows, including GenAI‑assisted adoption of reproducible Nix development environments.
• Support engineers adopting GenAI tooling through documentation, examples, troubleshooting, and feedback‑driven improvements.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Fluent with GenAI‑assisted development, able to pair with AI tools to explore ideas, generate code, debug, and prototype quickly.
• Hands‑on experience building LLM‑powered tools for software development.
• Direct experience writing Bash or Python scripts and using webhooks/APIs to automate and integrate tools such as Jira, Confluence, and GitLab.
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker, multi‑stage builds) and package managers (Conan, Poetry, or Nix).
• Familiarity with deploying and managing workloads in cloud environments (Azure Gov Cloud or AWS).
• Experience with secure software development practices, secret management, and identity providers (Active Directory, Entra ID).
• Ability to obtain and maintain an active U.S. SECRET security clearance (U.S. citizenship required).

Required skills

• C++
• Python
• Node.js
• Bash
• GitLab
• Jira
• Confluence
• Docker
• Conan
• Poetry
• Nix
• Azure Gov Cloud
• AWS
• Active Directory
• Entra ID
• LLM‑powered tool development
• CI/CD systems