Forward Deploy Engineer
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated3 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$220k - $320k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead solution design and architecture for cross-functional data and AI problems from discovery through deployment.
- Create architecture decisions, technical blueprints, diagrams, data-flow maps, API contracts, solution briefs, and other technical documentation.
- Design and deliver production-ready prototypes for ambiguous business requirements within compressed timelines.
- Develop intuitive front-end interfaces and dashboards for data and AI outputs.
- Design, build, and deploy AI agents and multi-agent systems that automate complex workflows.
- Develop agent skills and implement Model Context Protocol servers and clients to connect agents with enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources.
- Create evaluation harnesses, guardrails, monitoring pipelines, and other mechanisms for reliable and safe agent operation.
- Integrate LLMs, RAG systems, and ML models into production workflows.
- Embed with product, program, and engineering teams to define problems, deliver solutions, and influence technical direction.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 15+ years of software or infrastructure development experience.
- Demonstrated ability to architect end-to-end systems from requirements through deployment with clear documentation and stakeholder communication.
- Hands-on experience building AI agents with agent skills, tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
- Experience using AI-augmented engineering assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent tools.
- Direct experience building, deploying, and operating production agents with AWS Agent Core or an equivalent platform.
- Working knowledge of Model Context Protocol, including building or consuming MCP servers.
- Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
- Proficiency in Python and at least one of React, Vue.js, or Angular.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong communication, interpersonal, ownership, ambiguity-navigation, and stakeholder-alignment skills.
- Preferred experience with RAG architectures, vector databases, semantic search, prompt engineering, fine-tuning, LLM evaluation, agent observability, tracing tools, Docker, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions.
- Preferred background in real estate, financial services, or other data-intensive enterprise domains and experience facilitating technical discovery workshops, design sprints, or architecture reviews.
Benefits
- Remote position based in Chicago, Illinois or San Francisco, California.
- Estimated base compensation is $220,000–$320,000 per year.
- Benefits may include a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care, paid parental leave at 100% of salary, paid time off, company holidays, and early access to earned wages through DailyPay.
- The position does not provide visa sponsorship; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
JLL is a global commercial real estate services and investment management firm serving occupiers and investors. It provides property and facilities management, leasing and tenant representation, capital markets, project and development services, workplace strategy, sustainability, and real estate technology and analytics, with a fee- and commission-based advisory, outsourcing, transaction, and management-fee model. Headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (JLL).