Staff Software Engineer NYC

About the role

The client is a leading global commercial real estate and investment management firm looking to build a new team dedicated to reimagining AI usage within their business. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to design and ship production-grade AI agents that automate and elevate research and market-intelligence workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and scale production AI agents that automate complex research and analytics workflows for a global user base.
• Act as the quality bar for AI-assisted development by harnessing, evaluating, validating, and hardening agent output for production.
• Partner directly with product managers, researchers, data engineers, and platform teams to translate business needs into working solutions.
• Own initiatives end to end, from concept through production deployment and scale.
• Communicate and influence across technical and non-technical audiences, helping democratize data and intelligence across the organization.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience at a staff or technical-lead level.
• Demonstrated experience building at least one production AI agent, with strong harnessing around it (evaluation, validation, guardrails) and proven scalability.
• Production and scale experience with agentic systems, not proof-of-concept only.
• A strong, tool-agnostic engineering foundation: microservices and distributed systems, cloud, SQL and NoSQL, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Comfort using AI coding tools and agents, and acting as the quality bar for AI-generated output.
• A product mindset and the ability to translate technical solutions for non-technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication and cross-functional influence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks or similar modern data platforms.
• Experience automating research, analytics, or market-intelligence workflows.
• Background in commercial real estate, financial services, or data and analytics products.
• Experience evolving agents beyond initial build into a mature development lifecycle.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation: $221,000 – $320,700 base salary annually, plus eligibility for a 20% annual target bonus.

Benefits: As a direct-hire employee, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage; health savings and flexible spending accounts; a 401(k) with company match; company-paid life and disability insurance; generous paid time off; paid parental leave; fertility and family-planning support; and a range of physical, mental, and financial well-being programs.

Application Instructions

This is a chance to build frontier AI on a brand-new team, with the visibility and ownership to shape it from day one. Our client is interviewing now and moving quickly. If this sounds like your next role, apply today.