Location: Bellevue, WA (Hybrid — 3 days/week) or Remote
Role Overview
We’re building a new product in the real estate tech space and are looking for a Senior AI Engineer to join our founding AI team. You’ll help turn generative AI ideas into production-ready features, architect and ship AI-powered agents, and influence the long-term technical direction of our AI roadmap. You’ll work closely with our existing product stack (Ruby on Rails + React) and leverage AWS AI infrastructure to deliver scalable, secure, high-performing systems.
Key Responsibilities
AI Agent Development
Design, build, and maintain intelligent, autonomous, or conversational AI agents to automate workflows and improve user productivity.
Implement agentic patterns and orchestration for real-world product use cases.
AI/ML System Development (End-to-End)
Architect, develop, and maintain scalable end-to-end AI systems and generative AI applications using AWS AI services and open-source frameworks.
Own the AI lifecycle from concept and design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
Full-Stack Integration
Partner with backend (Ruby on Rails) and frontend (React) engineers to integrate AI-driven capabilities into the core product experience.
Build APIs/services that support reliable AI features and excellent UX.
Data Pipeline Management
Develop and manage robust pipelines for ingestion, processing, and transformation of real estate datasets to support model training and inference.
Ensure data quality, lineage, and consistency across workflows.
Performance Monitoring & Optimization
Monitor and optimize deployed models, agents, and APIs for reliability, accuracy, latency, and cost efficiency.
Establish best practices for observability and performance tracking.
Collaboration & Technical Leadership
Collaborate closely with product, data, and engineering teams to define requirements, validate solutions, and champion AI best practices.
Contribute to coding standards, mentor peers, and help shape the long-term AI technical roadmap.
Innovation & Applied Research
Evaluate and apply new technologies in LLMs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and agentic AI to solve complex problems.
Qualifications (Required)
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in AI/ML or software engineering roles with exposure to production-grade AI systems.
Proficiency in Python and familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or LangChain (or equivalents).
Hands-on experience deploying AI models/services in a cloud environment (AWS preferred).
Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems design.
Solid grasp of LLMs, Generative AI, and RAG methodologies.
Excellent collaboration skills and a track record of delivering results in cross-functional teams.
Preferred (Nice to Have)
Experience integrating AI into web applications built on Ruby on Rails and React.
Familiarity with vector databases and embeddings (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate).
Exposure to MLOps tools and best practices (e.g., SageMaker, MLflow, CI/CD, model monitoring).
Interest in real estate or property technology (PropTech) applications.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
- 5+ years experience in AI/ML or software engineering with production-grade AI systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Familiarity with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or LangChain
- Hands-on experience deploying AI models/services in a cloud environment (AWS preferred)
- Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems design
- Solid grasp of LLMs, Generative AI, and RAG methodologies
- Excellent collaboration skills and track record delivering results in cross-functional teams
- Experience integrating AI into web applications built on Ruby on Rails and React
- Familiarity with vector databases and embeddings (Pinecone, FAISS, Weaviate)
- Exposure to MLOps tools and best practices (SageMaker, MLflow, CI/CD, model monitoring)
- Interest in real estate or PropTech applications
What We Do
SQDM is a customer-centric IT company that drives digital transformation through innovative services, including automated processes and unified experiences. Specializing in highly regulated sectors like finance, insurance, and healthcare, they provide expertise in Salesforce, Boomi, and Artificial Intelligence. The company focuses on implementing and monitoring solutions in business connectivity and data management to help clients achieve operational efficiency and impactful business results.







