Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated3 days ago
Base Salary
$187k - $229k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship AI agents for business workflows in partnership with business subject-matter experts and operators.
- Stand up MCP servers and connectors from pre-production through production.
- Bootstrap skills, integrations, and evaluations on JLL’s AI platform, including its LLM gateway, shared RAG services, and MCP toolchain.
- Run workshops with business teams, teach them to use Claude Code, and translate workflows into agent skills.
- Design, ship, support, and hand off systems as a one-person engineering team.
- Transition mature systems to platform and operations teams and provide feedback on patterns, anti-patterns, and platform gaps to the Center of Excellence.
Requirements
- Experience shipping production agents using Claude Agent SDK, MCP, or an equivalent stack.
- Production programming experience in at least one of Python, Node, or .NET, with comfort moving across the others.
- Experience working with relational, NoSQL, object/blob, vector, and document data stores.
- Ability to operate end-to-end as a one-person engineering team across design, delivery, support, and handoff.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and comfort working with non-engineers.
- Pragmatic judgment around when to ship, harden, or hand off systems, plus systems thinking focused on failure modes.
- Comfort with tasking and running multiple agents in parallel as part of the daily workflow.
Benefits
- Full-time, on-site position in Chicago, Illinois.
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care.
- Paid parental leave at 100% of salary.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay.
- Supportive culture and benefits focused on mental, physical, and emotional well-being.
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).