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Forward Deployed Engineer at JLL

Forward Deployed Engineer

JLL · San Francisco, CA, United States

2 weeks ago

Forward Deployed Engineer

JLL · San Francisco, CA, United States

14 days ago
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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.
  • Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services.
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  • Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process.
  • We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons.
  • We will then delete it safely and securely.
  • For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement.
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Equal Opportunity

  • For candidates in the United States, please see a full copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity policy here.
  • Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
  • If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at HRSCLeaves@jll.com.
  • This email is only to request an accommodation.
  • Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.
  • Pursuant to the Arizona Civil Rights Act, criminal convictions are not an absolute bar to employment.
  • Pursuant to Illinois Law, applicants are not obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest.
  • Pursuant to Columbia, SC ordinance, this position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities.
  • Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.
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  • Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, JLL will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
  • Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
  • Accepting applications on an ongoing basis until candidate identified.