Founding AI Platform Engineer - Equity + Direct CEO Access

Zipdev; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

CRE AI Startup seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and own the core platform powering its enterprise AI products. You will focus on identifying common patterns across client engagements and turning them into reusable platform capabilities, working closely with the CEO and forward-deployed engineers.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role with architectural ownership, aimed at seed-stage growth and significant upside as the product scales.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of professional software/AI engineering experience.
• Production AI experience with agentic workflows, LLM pipelines, or retrieval from unstructured data.
• End-to-end architecture ownership; founding or early-stage roles preferred.
• Experience owning production LLM quality with guardrails and evaluation.
• Backend APIs, data pipelines, cloud deployment.
• Data-driven with enterprise readiness and security.

Responsibilities

• Own and build the core AI orchestration platform.
• Design multi-provider LLM gateway with caching and routing.
• Develop evaluation frameworks and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.
• Build extraction pipelines and semantic matching for CRE documents.
• Map extracted data to CRE semantic field dictionary.
• Lead multi-tenant knowledge graph and retrieval layer.
• Implement governance: PII, policy checks, escalation workflows, audit trails.
• Abstract reusable functionality into the shared platform.
• Create integrations with DealCloud and Yardi.
• Collaborate with CEO to shape product architecture.

Skills

Production AI

LLM Pipelines

Document Extraction

Knowledge Graphs

RAG Systems

LLM Evaluation

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Node.js

TypeScript

Job description

CRE AI Startup seeks a Senior AI Platform Engineer to build and own the core platform powering its enterprise AI products. You will focus on identifying common patterns across client engagements and turning them into reusable platform capabilities, working closely with the CEO and forward-deployed engineers.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role with architectural ownership, aimed at seed-stage growth and significant upside as the product scales.