AI Platform Engineer – Scale Data & LLM Orchestration (NYC Onsite)

Welltower; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Employee Stock Purchase Program

Profit sharing

Student Debt Program

Tuition Assistance

Medical/Dental/Vision

Job summary

Welltower is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform and Data to build the data pipelines, model orchestration layer, and the APIs that applications rely on. You will own reliability, data integrity, and the handling of sensitive information in a fast-moving environment.

This hands-on role offers scale and autonomy within a leader in wellness-focused real estate, with opportunities to shape the data platform and drive long-term value across our portfolios.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• 6+ years in backend, data, or ML infrastructure engineering, shipping production systems at scale.
• Experience building and operating APIs and services that other engineers build on.
• Hands-on with LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, or model serving in production.
• Rigor around data security and access control, ideally with regulated or sensitive data.
• Based in the NYC metro area and able to work on-site.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, clean, and structure data into a usable form
• Build the model and agent orchestration layer, and the APIs that applications consume
• Turn patterns hand-rolled in the field into reusable platform primitives so future work delivers more without proportional headcount
• Establish data quality frameworks and automated testing to ensure data integrity and reliability
• Own reliability, data integrity, and access control
• Implement data governance practices and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements

Skills

Backend engineering

Data infrastructure

ML infrastructure

APIs and services

LLM orchestration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/DS/IS

Tools

API services

Model serving

LLM orchestration tools

Job description

Welltower is seeking an AI Engineer, Platform and Data to build the data pipelines, model orchestration layer, and the APIs that applications rely on. You will own reliability, data integrity, and the handling of sensitive information in a fast-moving environment.

This hands-on role offers scale and autonomy within a leader in wellness-focused real estate, with opportunities to shape the data platform and drive long-term value across our portfolios.