Staff ML Engineer — Autonomous Leasing AI

AppFolio; United States; Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own the ML strategy for the Realm-X Leasing Performer, a production-grade autonomous AI agent powering leasing workflows. You will lead architectural decisions, oversee model quality and evaluation, integrate ML with leasing products, and ensure reliability, observability, and cost discipline at scale in a SaaS environment.

Collaborate with Leasing Engineering, Voice & Agents, and Research ML to translate prototypes into reliable

Qualifications

• Has built and supported production ML systems at scale.
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Responsibilities

• Own the ML strategy for Leasing across products and define the roadmap.
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• Drive architecture for autonomous AI agents powering leasing operations.
• Evaluate and ship improvements with measurable customer impact.
• Establish ML patterns, standards, and best practices for the Leasing Engineering team.
• Ensure production discipline: SLOs, observability, and cost control.

Skills

Systems thinker

Production builder

RAG & agents

Architectural leadership

Collaboration

Reliability mindset

Ambiguity tolerance

Owner-operator

ML development at scale

Education

CS degree (BS/MS/PhD)

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

vLLM

TensorRT

Triton

Knowledge graphs

GPU tuning

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own the ML strategy for the Realm-X Leasing Performer, a production-grade autonomous AI agent powering leasing workflows. You will lead architectural decisions, oversee model quality and evaluation, integrate ML with leasing products, and ensure reliability, observability, and cost discipline at scale in a SaaS environment.

Collaborate with Leasing Engineering, Voice & Agents, and Research ML to translate prototypes into reliable