over 1 year ago
Responsibilities
- Translate customer needs into technical solutions in partnership with the product team.
- Create intelligent configuration interfaces that allow AI systems to adapt to customer needs.
- Design and implement integration frameworks connecting Zuma’s AI with customer systems.
- Establish modern engineering practices and infrastructure for an AI-first product.
- Implement analytics to measure and improve AI effectiveness.
- Lead development of AI-powered features for the real estate and property management industry.
- Mentor engineers and improve the team’s capabilities with LLM technologies.
- Architect critical systems, lead system rewrites, modernize legacy code, and establish technical standards.
Requirements
- Strong people leadership experience and a bias for action.
- Hands-on experience architecting, designing, and implementing agentic AI systems at scale.
- Hands-on experience with at least one agentic framework and familiarity with other agentic frameworks.
- Experience using cutting-edge LLMs, fine-tuning LLMs, and integrating them into production software used by real users.
- Expertise in React and either Python or Node.js.
- Knowledge of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and LLMs.
- Experience working in fast-paced startup environments and collaborating with global teams.
- Comfort working with legacy code, interacting directly with customers, and occasionally traveling to customer offices.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Gym and workspace stipends.
- Computer and workspace enhancements.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Company off-sites with the team.
- Significant equity in a venture-backed company.
- Opportunity to shape the company’s technical foundations and engineering culture.
- Startup environment with autonomy, rapidly shifting priorities, extended hours, and occasional travel to customer offices.
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About Zuma
Zuma builds AI agents for multifamily property management, including an AI leasing assistant that handles lead response, tour booking, resident Q&A, and collections with humans in the loop. The company sells SaaS to apartment owners and operators, integrating with property CRMs to automate the resident lifecycle. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Santa Monica, it is privately held and raised a $17M Series A in 2024 from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator.