Senior Technical Lead, AI & Automation
The Senior Technical Lead, AI & Automation at Public Storage serves as the technical authority for AI architecture, system design, and delivery within the AI POD. This hands-on role involves guiding engineers, influencing design decisions, and ensuring AI solutions are scalable, secure, and production-ready. Public Storage, the nation's leading self-storage provider, is recognized for its commitment to delivering simple, reliable solutions to millions of customers across the country.
Key responsibilities include leading the design and implementation of LLM-powered agents, tool-calling frameworks, and multi-step reasoning workflows. The role also involves architecting and optimizing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines using vector databases and enterprise knowledge sources. Additionally, the Senior Technical Lead ensures workflows are resilient, observable, cost-efficient, and maintainable at scale, while partnering with cloud and infrastructure teams to design scalable AI platforms across GCP, AWS, or Azure.
The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Data Science, or a related discipline, with over seven years of professional Python development experience. Proven experience with LLMs and frameworks like LangChain or LlamaIndex is essential. Strong knowledge of RAG architectures, vector databases, and semantic search is required, along with experience in AI-driven automation and orchestration platforms. Cloud-native experience deploying and operating AI workloads in GCP, AWS, or Azure is also necessary.
Public Storage offers a base pay range of $140,000 to $185,000, with compensation varying based on qualifications, skills, experience, and location. The company provides a collaborative work environment, with employees expected to work in the office five days each week, with the option to take up to three flexible remote days per month. Public Storage is recognized as a Great Place to Work, with employees voting it as having Best Career Growth and ranking it in the Top 5% for Work Culture and in the Top 10% for Diversity and Inclusion.