# Lead Developer - AI

Builders FirstSource (BFS) is executing Project Elevate, a multi-year business transformation that is standardizing core operations on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition and connected enterprise applications. We are seeking a hands-on Lead AI developer to design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions that drive productivity, automation, and business value. This role will lead the development of intelligent assistants, AI-powered search and knowledge platforms, document intelligence solutions, and business process automation using modern AI technologies and cloud-native architectures. This role partners with business analysts, functional leads, architects, security, Basis, testing teams, and systems-integration partners to translate business requirements into clean-core, scalable solutions across SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP). ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Design and build AI solutions using Agentic AI, Generative AI, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Develop enterprise copilots, intelligent assistants, and knowledge discovery solutions. Rapidly prototype new AI capabilities and evolve successful proofs of concept into scalable enterpr

- **Id**: 4221794
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/builders-firstsource-lead-developer-ai-2>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T06:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T05:34:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10264
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Wholesale, Building Materials

## Company

- **Id**: 15085
- **Name**: Builders FirstSource
- **Domain**: bldr.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/bldr>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 184
- **Ghost share**: 0.027
- **Stale share**: 0.957
- **Repost share**: 0.027
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Azure AKS** — Optional: no
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LlamaIndex** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **Next.js** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **React.js** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Agile** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: yes
- **GraphRAG** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T05:34:59Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T06:54:26Z

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