Forward Deployed Real Estate Investor

Smart Bricks; Dubai; On-site; AED 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Bricks is building the applied AI capabilities for real estate, seeking exceptional real estate investors to encode institutional expertise into AI. You will collaborate with AI engineers and customers to reveal how top real estate organisations source, underwrite, diligence and make investment decisions.

You’ll work across office, residential, logistics, hospitality, data centres and other sectors, translating investment know-how into scalable AI workflows and decisioning tools that

Qualifications

• Experience in institutional real estate investing or private equity.
• Excellent financial modelling and underwriting skills.
• Strong commercial judgment and curiosity about AI.

Responsibilities

• Deconstruct institutional underwriting workflows and translate them into scalable AI processes.
• Work directly with investment teams at customers to understand needs and outputs.
• Define the reasoning and outputs required from specialised agents.
• Build and evaluate real estate-specific AI workflows for underwriting and investment analysis.
• Design underwriting methodologies and evaluation benchmarks for property types.
• Review AI-generated investment analyses for accuracy and usefulness.
• Help build asset-specific agents across office, residential, logistics, hospitality, data centres and other sectors.
• Translate investment expertise into scalable software for AI systems.

Skills

Real estate investing

Financial modelling

Underwriting

Investment committee

AI curiosity

Job description

Smart Bricks is the applied AI lab for real estate.

We are building the intelligence infrastructure for the world’s largest asset class. Our platform combines four intelligences: Company Brain, Real Estate Intelligence, Market Intelligence and Specialist Agents, with Financial Engines under the agents.

We operate globally across Dubai, London and San Francisco, bringing together exceptional people from AI, engineering, real estate and finance.

We care more about exceptional ability, rate of learning and ownership than conventional credentials.

The role

This is not a traditional investment role.

We’re looking for exceptional real estate investors who want to help encode institutional investment expertise into AI.

You’ll work alongside AI engineers and customers to teach Smart Bricks how sophisticated real estate organisations actually source, underwrite, diligence and make investment decisions.

What you’ll do

• Deconstruct institutional underwriting workflows
• Work directly with investment teams at customers
• Define the reasoning and outputs required from specialised agents
• Build and evaluate real estate-specific AI workflows
• Design underwriting methodologies and evaluation benchmarks
• Review AI-generated investment analysis
• Help build asset-specific agents across office, residential, logistics, hospitality, data centres and other sectors
• Translate investment expertise into scalable software

What we’re looking for

• Experience in institutional real estate investing, private equity, lending or investment banking
• Excellent financial modelling and underwriting skills
• Deep understanding of investment committee processes
• Strong commercial judgment
• Intellectual curiosity about AI
• Desire to build rather than continue along a conventional investing career