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

Welltower; New York (NY); 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 – REIMAGINE REAL ESTATE WITH US

At Welltower, we’re transforming how the world thinks about senior living and wellness-focused real estate. As a global leader in residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure, we create vibrant, purpose-driven communities where housing, healthcare, and hospitality converge. Our culture is fast-paced, collaborative, and endlessly ambitious—guided by our mantra: The only easy day was yesterday.

We’re looking for bold, independent thinkers who thrive on challenge, embrace complexity, and are driven to deliver long-term value. Every team member is empowered to think like an owner, innovate fearlessly, and lead from where they stand. If you're passionate about outcomes and inspired by the opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure, we want you on our best-in-class team.

SUMMARY

The AI Engineer, Platform and Data will build and scale the core infrastructure supporting Welltower’s AI capabilities, including data pipelines, model and agent orchestration, and APIs.

This role will focus on creating reliable, reusable solutions that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining strong standards for data quality, security, and performance. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer who is comfortable building from the ground up and partnering across teams to bring AI solutions into production.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that ingest, transform, normalize, and structure complex data for downstream applications, analytics, and AI solutions.
• Build and support the model and agent orchestration layer, including the services, APIs, tools, and integration patterns required to bring AI capabilities into production workflows.
• Develop reusable platform components and shared services that allow engineering and product teams to build new AI-enabled applications efficiently and consistently.
• Identify repeatable patterns across use cases and convert them into scalable platform frameworks and standards that can be leveraged across the organization.
• Establish data quality frameworks, automated testing, and monitoring to ensure the accuracy and reliability of data used by AI systems.
• Build observability and operational controls for AI and data services, including monitoring, logging, performance measurement, error handling, and issue resolution.
• Own the reliability, performance, and maintainability of production AI, data, and platform services, proactively identifying opportunities to improve resilience and scalability.
• Implement appropriate data governance, security, access controls, and privacy practices to support the responsible use of sensitive and regulated information.
• Evaluate new AI infrastructure, model-serving, orchestration, and data technologies and determine where they can meaningfully improve Welltower's platform capabilities.
• Contribute to technical architecture and engineering best practices while remaining hands-on in the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of production systems.

OTHER DUTIES

Pleasenotethis job description is not designed to cover orcontaina comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that arerequired ofthis employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TRAVEL

Occasional out-of-area and overnight travel may be required.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of experience in backend, data, machine learning infrastructure, platform engineering, or a related engineering discipline, including experience delivering and supporting production systems at scale.
• Strong data engineering experience, including pipelines, transformations, data models, and structuring complex or unstructured real-world data for production use.
• Experience designing, building, and operating APIs, backend services, or shared platform capabilities used by other engineers, applications, or products.
• Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration, agent frameworks, model serving, retrieval-based systems, or similar AI infrastructure in a production environment.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, testing, monitoring, version control, and production deployment practices.
• Experience working with data security, access control, governance, and privacy requirements; experience with regulated or sensitive data is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills, sound technical judgment, and an ownership mindset with the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
• Must be based in the New York City metropolitan area and able to work onsite.

Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug screening, and verification of employment, education, and other credentials relevant to the position.

COMPENSATION

Salaries may vary by location. The base salary range for this role in New York is $160,000 to $220,000. In addition to base pay, this role is eligible for a total rewards package that includes an annual bonus opportunity, equity awards through our long-term incentive program, and a comprehensive benefits suite.

ABOUT WELLTOWER

Welltower® Inc. (NYSE: WELL) an S&P 500 company, is the world's preeminent residential wellness and healthcare infrastructure company. Our portfolio of 2,500+ Seniors and Wellness Housing communities is positioned at the intersection of housing, healthcare, and hospitality, creating vibrant communities for mature renters and older adults inthe United States,United Kingdom, andCanada.

Our real estate portfolio is unmatched,locatedin highly attractive micro-markets with stunning built environments.Yet,we are an unusual real estate organization as we view ourselves as a product company in a real estate wrapper driven by relationships and unconventional culture.

Through our disciplined approach to capital allocation powered by our data science platform and superior operating results driven by the Welltower Business System, we aspire to deliver long-term compounding of per share growth and returns for our existing investors – ourNorth Star.

Welltower is committed toleveragingthe talent of a diverse workforce to create great opportunities for our business and our people. EOE/AA. Minority/Female/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Disability/Vet

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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