Principal AI Platform Engineer for Real Estate Tech

Praxy

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 250,000 - 300,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) + match

Transit benefits

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Health Savings Account

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Walker & Dunlop is seeking a Principal AI Software Engineer to shape AI systems for our Loan Origination and Servicing platform and improve real-time insights across WDTech. You will design scalable applications and agentic workflows while mentoring engineers and advancing best practices.

You will also contribute to Atlas, our AI collaboration platform, enabling reusable skills and agents across the organization.

Qualifications

12+ years of software development experience, including senior IC delivering production systems.
Extensive experience delivering production AI/ML systems and agentic workflows.
Deep experience with modern agent frameworks and SDKs (Claude Agent SDK, LangGraph, Pydantic AI, MCP, A2A).
Experience with prompt/context engineering, RAG, embeddings, hybrid search and reranking.
Experience in Real Estate, Financial Services or Capital Markets preferred.

Responsibilities

Own complex AI and platform initiatives end-to-end, delivering business-facing capabilities and scaling the agent platform.
Design, build and maintain agentic workflows for loan intake, document review and servicing.
Establish platform patterns by prototyping and scaling for broader adoption.
Lead model selection and routing, evaluating cost, latency and quality with new models.
Design interfaces used by other teams, including MCP tool servers and subagents.
Establish evaluation, observability and guardrails for production AI systems.
Operate with minimal oversight, identify risks and mentor teammates.