Founding Systems Engineer | Build Core Data & AI Platform

Ground Game LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ground Game LLC is hiring a Founding Systems Engineer to lead the data and systems architecture behind our AI-enabled platform in commercial real estate. You will own relational data schemas, build reliable data pipelines, and enable APIs for AI agents with trusted, high-quality data.

You will directly guide contractors and partner teams, setting engineering practices while staying hands-on with high-risk components, and helping shape a small future engineering team.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on experience with SQL and relational data architecture, including production schemas and migrations.
• Strong backend and systems experience across APIs, integrations, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, permissions, and production operations.
• Track record of designing, building, shipping, and maintaining critical production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and improve shared relational data architecture, schemas and data quality rules.
• Build integrations and data pipelines across platforms (Yardi, Argus, Supabase, SharePoint, Microsoft 365).
• Develop APIs, views, and permissioned access for consistent data used by applications and AI agents.
• Establish standards around schema changes, validation, testing, monitoring, security, backups, and recovery.
• Review and strengthen existing prototypes and contractor-built tools.
• Translate business priorities into technical architecture and implementation plans.
• Direct technical contractors and partners while remaining hands-on with critical components.
• Contribute to building and leading a small technical team.

Skills

SQL and relational data architecture

APIs and data integrations

Data pipelines and cloud infra

Production systems design and shipping

Leadership of engineers/partners

AI-enabled systems

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Ground Game LLC is hiring a Founding Systems Engineer to lead the data and systems architecture behind our AI-enabled platform in commercial real estate. You will own relational data schemas, build reliable data pipelines, and enable APIs for AI agents with trusted, high-quality data.

You will directly guide contractors and partner teams, setting engineering practices while staying hands-on with high-risk components, and helping shape a small future engineering team.