Applied AI Engineer - Production AI Solutions (Hybrid)

HomeSmart International, LLC; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

HomeSmart is seeking a hands-on applied AI engineer to work with internal teams and affiliated businesses, identifying meaningful problems and delivering production-ready solutions—from prototype to deployment.

This individual-contributor role partners with engineering, data science, and infrastructure teams. You will build data pipelines, ML architectures, and secure, scalable applications while collaborating across functions to measure impact and drive improvements.

Qualifications

• Experience building software or AI applications and ability to explain contributions and tradeoffs.
• Strong Python skills; working knowledge of SQL, APIs, software engineering fundamentals, version control, code review, and testing.
• Experience building with language models and evaluating capabilities, limitations, and production performance.
• Familiarity with AI development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and debugging generated code.
• Sound security judgment around permissions, data integrity, sensitive information, and production credentials.
• Clear communication, curiosity, initiative, and ability to work through ambiguity with technical and nontechnical partners.

Responsibilities

• Work with business teams to understand workflows, identify opportunities, and define success measures.
• Build and deploy production-ready applications, APIs, integrations, AI-enabled workflows, and automation.
• Develop reliable data pipelines and shared data models, including a business data ontology connecting people, activities, documents, and relationships across systems.
• Collaborate on ML architecture, training and inference pipelines, testing, and evaluation; troubleshoot issues and improve performance.
• Choose the right approach for each problem—AI/ML, deterministic logic, or conventional software—based on accuracy, latency, cost, and control.
• Build in security, access controls, traceability, error handling, testing, and human review; protect sensitive data and credentials.
• Monitor adoption, quality, time savings, and operating costs, then improve and maintain solutions after launch.

Skills

Hands-on software development

Python

SQL

APIs

Security best practices

Communication

Ambiguity management

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

HomeSmart is seeking a hands-on applied AI engineer to work with internal teams and affiliated businesses, identifying meaningful problems and delivering production-ready solutions—from prototype to deployment.

This individual-contributor role partners with engineering, data science, and infrastructure teams. You will build data pipelines, ML architectures, and secure, scalable applications while collaborating across functions to measure impact and drive improvements.