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As North America’s premier window covering company, we’re committed to creating the Best Experience for our associates, consumers and end users, business partners, and communities. We want you to join our team of passionate self-starters who believe the world is full of Best Experience opportunities. So, if you’re excited about the thought of a Best Experience career with a team focused on creating Best Experiences for all, we want to hear from you!\nPosition Summary\nThis is an engineering role, not a research role. The Sr AI Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who ships enterprise-scale AI into production and owns the architecture, governance, and engineering practices that turn ambitious ideas into working systems. You will drive AI adoption across the organization, mentor other engineers by building alongside them, and partner directly with Information Technology, business stakeholders, operations, customer service, product development, and analytics teams to deliver AI capabilities that measurably improve efficiency, elevate customer experiences, and sharpen decision making.\nThe ideal candidate is a software engineer first who happens to be obsessed with AI, pairing strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on command of machine learning, generative AI, data engineering, automation, and cloud technologies. You move fast and iterate in the open, treating a rough prototype that works as more valuable than a polished plan that doesn't. 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