About the Role
As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will operate at the front lines of innovation — embedded directly with subject matter experts, product, and engineering teams to rapidly design, architect, prototype, and deploy solutions that solve high-priority business problems. This is not a traditional engineering role with long delivery cycles. You will be expected to go from concept to working prototype in days, not months, while maintaining enterprise-grade standards for quality, security, and scalability.
Responsibilities
- Lead solution design for complex, cross-functional data and AI problems — from initial discovery through to technical blueprint
- Define and communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery approaches to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Design scalable, modular systems that balance the need for speed with enterprise standards for reliability, security, and maintainability
- Participate in architecture reviews, ensuring alignment with enterprise patterns and platform standards
- Create clear technical documentation: architecture diagrams, data flow maps, API contracts, and solution briefs
- Design and deliver working prototypes for complex data and AI problems within compressed timeframes, often days to weeks
- Translate ambiguous business requirements into concrete technical solutions with minimal hand-holding
- Balance speed of delivery with enterprise standards — your prototypes are production-ready, not throwaway
- Continuously iterate on solutions based on direct feedback from product managers, program leads, and end users
- Develop intuitive front-end interfaces and dashboards that bring data and AI outputs to life for business users
- Apply strong UX instincts to simplify complex flows and make agent outputs accessible and actionable for non-technical stakeholders
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents and multi-agent systems that automate complex workflows end-to-end
- Develop and maintain agent skills — discrete, reusable capabilities that compose into larger agentic pipelines
- Implement and extend Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and clients to connect AI agents with enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources
- Design evaluation harnesses, guardrails, and monitoring pipelines to ensure agent reliability and safety in production
- Stay current with the rapidly evolving agentic AI landscape and proactively introduce new techniques and tooling to the team
- Integrate LLMs, RAG systems, and ML models into production workflows
- Embed directly with product, program, and engineering teams to co-define problems and co-deliver solutions
- Influence technical direction and build alignment across teams without relying on formal authority
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical business stakeholders — in writing, in meetings, and in executive presentations
- Mentor and elevate junior engineers, sharing patterns and practices for agentic development, prompt design, and rapid delivery
- Foster a collaborative, low-ego team culture where speed and quality go hand in hand
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, including solution design and architecture ownership
- Demonstrated ability to architect end-to-end systems — from requirements through deployment — with clear documentation and stakeholder communication
- Hands-on experience building AI agents, including defining agent skills, tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning
- Experience with AI-Augmented Engineering (Harness Engineering) — actively use tools like Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent assistants to accelerate coding, documentation, and problem-solving day-to-day.
- Direct experience with AWS Agent Core or equivalent — building, deploying, and operating agents in production
- Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol (MCP) — including building or consuming MCP servers to connect agents with external systems
- Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel
- Proficiency in Python and at least one front-end framework (React, Vue.js, or Angular)
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills — you can earn trust quickly, navigate ambiguity, and drive alignment across diverse teams
- Comfort working in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and high ownership expectations
- Experience with RAG architectures, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector), and semantic search
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and LLM evaluation techniques
- Experience with agent observability and tracing tools (LangSmith, Arize, Weights & Biases, or similar)
- Experience with containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions)
- Background in real estate, financial services, or other data-intensive enterprise domains
- Experience facilitating technical discovery workshops, design sprints, or architecture reviews
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Skills
- AI agents
- Full-stack development
- AWS Agent Core
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- LangChain
- LangGraph
- AutoGen
- CrewAI
- Semantic Kernel
- Python
- React
- Vue.js
- Angular
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- RAG architectures
- Vector databases
- Pinecone
- Weaviate
- pgvector
- Prompt engineering
- LLM evaluation
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
Location
- Chicago, IL
- San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- On-site
Experience Level
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Salary/Compensations
- 280,000.00 – 300,000.00 USD per year
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
- Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
- Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
- Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay
About the Company
- JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.
- Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients.
- We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.
- Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
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