Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle); Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) in Chicago, IL is seeking a Staff FDE to drive data-driven solutions for real estate and operations. Embed with product, program, and engineering teams to rapidly architect, prototype, and deploy AI-powered tools that address high-priority challenges.

You will work across modern AI coding assistants daily, turning real-estate and operations problems into scalable, live deployments in a fast-moving corporate environment.

Responsibilities

• Operate at the front lines inside JLL: embed with product, program, and engineering teams to rapidly architect, prototype, and deploy data-driven solutions to high-priority real-estate and operations problems, using modern AI coding assistants day-to-day.

Job description

Chicago, IL · Posted July 26, 2026

Why it's interesting

A Fortune 500 commercial-real-estate firm posting a Staff FDE at $150K–$280K — the clearest sign yet the title has jumped the tech fence, sitting alongside Seaboard Foods and Bilt on this board. Embedded engineering has officially reached the property-management world.

The role

Operate at the front lines inside JLL: embed with product, program, and engineering teams to rapidly architect, prototype, and deploy data-driven solutions to high-priority real‑estate and operations problems, using modern AI coding assistants day‑to‑day. Verified live via the Glassdoor US sweep (2026-07-26, employer-provided band).