Staff Engineer, Innovation

  • Lwolf
  • United States (remote)
  • 2mo ago
  • Full-time
  • Remote

We're building AI capabilities into the core of Lone Wolf's platform — transforming how real estate professionals manage transactions, serve clients, and grow their businesses. As Staff Engineer, AI Platform, you'll be the technical backbone of that effort: designing the infrastructure, data pipelines, and production systems that turn AI/ML models into reliable, scalable product features used by hundreds of thousands of real estate professionals.

This is a high-impact individual contributor role. You'll set architectural direction for how AI gets built and shipped at Lone Wolf, partner closely with product teams, and ensure our AI systems are production-grade from day one.

What You'll Do:

  • Design and build the AI platform layer — the data pipelines, serving infrastructure, and integration patterns that connect ML models to Lone Wolf's products
  • Productionize AI/ML capabilities — take models from prototype to production, owning reliability, performance, and scalability
  • Architect data pipelines that ingest, transform, and serve data from Lone Wolf's ecosystem to power AI features
  • Set technical standards for AI engineering across the Innovation team — define patterns for model serving, feature stores, monitoring, and rollout strategies
  • Ensure models are designed for production constraints from the start, not retrofitted after the fact
  • Evaluate and integrate AI/ML tooling — LLM APIs, vector databases, orchestration frameworks, cloud AI services — making pragmatic build-vs-buy decisions
  • Influence technical direction across engineering teams, providing architectural guidance on how product teams should integrate AI capabilities
  • Prototype rapidly when needed — you're comfortable building end-to-end proof-of-concepts to validate feasibility before committing to full builds

What You Bring:

  • 8+ years of software engineering experience with increasing scope and technical complexity
  • Proven experience productionizing ML/AI models — you've taken data science output and made it work reliably in production at scale
  • Deep data pipeline expertise — you've built ingestion, transformation, and serving systems using tools like Snowflake, S3, Kafka, or similar
  • Strong cloud-native architecture skills — AWS preferred (Lambda, Batch, S3, SageMaker, Bedrock); comfortable designing serverless and event-driven systems
  • Full-stack technical range — backend services (Java/Spring Boot or similar), APIs, and enough frontend awareness to build internal tools or review UIs when needed
  • Experience working in platform/infrastructure roles where your work enables other teams to ship faster
  • Excellent judgment on tradeoffs — you know when to build robust and when to ship fast, and you can articulate why

What Sets You Apart:

  • Experience with real estate technology, MLS data, or proptech platforms
  • Familiarity with LLM integration patterns — prompt engineering, RAG architectures, agent frameworks
  • Background in data-intensive optimization domains
  • Track record of mentoring engineers and raising the technical bar on teams you work with
  • Experience at high-growth or early-stage companies where you wore multiple hats