Lead AI Engineer – Agentic & Generative AI (DFW Area)
RealPage, Inc.10 months ago
Richardson, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$123k - $209k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture, technical roadmap, and delivery of agentic and generative AI products and platforms.
- Design model-selection, multi-agent orchestration, workflow, data, retrieval, and knowledge-graph architectures.
- Lead implementation of shared AI services, SDKs, reusable RAG pipelines, ingestion frameworks, UI components, and agentic backend capabilities.
- Establish standards for prompt versioning, model and retrieval evaluation, observability, logging, incident response, and responsible AI.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, design and code reviews, mentoring, and architectural guidance to AI Engineers, ML Engineers, and Data Scientists.
- Partner with product, design, business, security, privacy, and legal teams to identify use cases, shape roadmaps, and deliver compliant AI solutions.
- Lead complex cross-functional AI initiatives from concept through production and ongoing iteration.
- Define evaluation frameworks and governance practices covering relevance, safety, user satisfaction, bias, fairness, PII, compliance, and data residency.
- Optimize AI system performance and cost through routing, distillation, caching, infrastructure right-sizing, and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Manage reliability objectives, technical risks, scalability, data quality, vendor lock-in, latency, uptime, and error budgets.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering, ML Engineering, or Data Science.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with applied AI and large language models, plus at least 2+ years in a senior or lead role.
- Deep production expertise with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
- Experience designing and operating distributed, cloud-native systems on GCP, Azure, or AWS.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Experience using coding assistants such as Windsurf, Cursor, or Codex.
- Proven success architecting and shipping complex AI systems to production at scale.
- Experience leading multi-engineer initiatives, mentoring engineers, and making data-driven speed, quality, and cost tradeoffs.
- Advanced experience with LLM application design, prompting, tool use, function calling, multi-agent workflows, RAG architectures, vector databases, retrieval optimization, AI observability, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including communicating AI strategy to executives and non-technical partners.
- Preferred experience with multimodal and real-time agents, AI experiment tracking and evaluation frameworks, data platforms, Kafka, browser automation, and regulated or privacy-constrained domains.
- Preferred experience developing organizational AI strategies, technical standards, and AI hiring or capability roadmaps.
Benefits
- Hybrid DFW-area position requiring attendance in the office 2–3 days per week.
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About RealPage, Inc.
RealPage builds SaaS platforms for property owners, operators, and investors to manage leasing, payments, accounting, and operations across multifamily, single-family, and vacation rental portfolios. Its products span property management, payments processing, analytics, and revenue management, sold primarily by subscription with ancillary services. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Richardson, Texas, RealPage has been privately held under Thoma Bravo since 2021 and supports more than 24 million rental units.