Senior Python Engineer

We are looking for

The Open Home Foundation is seeking a passionate Senior Python developer, based in Europe, to join our Home Assistant department as a full-time Software Engineer. This team is responsible for the open development, maintenance, and enhancement of the Home Assistant platform; supporting new functionality aligned with our roadmap and enabling the wider community to contribute and innovate easily.

Home Assistant is a highly popular open-source project, the largest open source project on GitHub by the number of contributors we have each year. As a result, we also receive many open-source contributions. In this role, you will work closely with the open-source community to review contributions and ensure seamless integration into our platform.

In this role, your main daily tasks will involve bringing Home Assistant to the next level of AI capabilities. You will help build the foundation on which AI features across our platform are created: the APIs and interfaces that let language models work with the home, Assist - our assistant that people talk to or chat with, in-product agents, and the open standards (such as the Model Context Protocol) that connect Home Assistant to the wider agentic world. Always private, local-first, and by choice. This is not a list of features to deliver, but a long-term directio