Senior AI Engineer
Costa Mesa, CA - USA
Job Summary
Job Title
Senior AI EngineerJob Description Summary
Build the next generation of scalable AI-powered software with modern tools cloud-native systems and world-class engineering practices.Cushman & Wakefield is investing heavily in modernizing and transforming its global technology platforms and we are looking for a Sr AI Engineering Lead who wants to own technical direction end to end. AI is the primary differentiator here not a side feature: you will define how intelligence is embedded across products built on top of a complex multi-source enterprise data estate spanning a global commercial real estate firm (properties leases work orders capital projects and occupier analytics).
If youre motivated by technical breadth architectural influence and building elite engineering teams youll thrive here.
Job Description
Technology Strategy & Vision
- Define multi-year architectural direction across full-stack systems cloud platforms and AI-driven products focusing on scale resilience security and global performance.
-Establishstandards foragentic workflows intelligent search conversational interfaces and data-grounded reasoning across CWs enterprise platforms.
- Shape engineering roadmaps using best-in-class development stacks (e.g. TypeScript/ Python Go C# React microservices event-driven architectures).
- Foster a modern engineering culture emphasizing automation craftsmanship clean architecture and continuous improvement.
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Hands-On Full-Stack & Platform Engineering Leadership
Guide the design and development of solutions built with:
- Frontend: React TypeScript Tailwind micro-frontends
- Backend: Python (FastAPI) Core event-driven microservices
- Cloud & Infra: Azure (preferred) AWS Kubernetes (AKS/EKS) serverless architectures Terraform
- Data & AI:Databricks (Genie/AI-BI Mosaic AI Agent Framework Unity Catalog Delta Lake medallion architecture model serving)Azure Data Lake vector databases LLM orchestration and agentic frameworks
- APIs:GraphQLgRPC REST at scale
Drive innovation by embedding AI/ML automationproduction prompt engineering (system prompt architecture context injection business-rule encodingcitationand grounding patterns)intelligent workflows and data interoperability into core products.
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Execution Quality & Delivery Excellence
Champion excellence through best practices:
- Enterprise-grade CI/CD (Azure DevOpsArgoCD)
- Automated testing contract testing and quality gates
- Observability platforms (PrometheusOpenTelemetry Grafana New Relic Datadog)
- Secure-by-design principles threat modeling zero trust patterns
Oversee engineering delivery across multiple squads ensuring consistency velocity and reliability.
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AI Engineering Standards
Define and enforce AI engineering standards across products and external delivery teams:
- AI evaluation framework design golden-question sets hallucination measurement regression testing and model quality gates for production AI systems
- Pre-semantic data contracts schema stability requirementscanonicalentity ID definitions and data quality thresholds that AI systems can depend on
- AI governance access control patterns for confidential and client data responsible use guardrails and auditability requirements for AI-generated outputs
- LLM system design standards prompt versioning context window management grounding and citation patterns and failure-mode handling
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Architecture Governance & Platform Integrity
Lead architectural reviews and key design decisions across services domains and integrations.
Establish patterns for scalability fault tolerance global data compliance and cost optimization.
Maintainhigh standardsin coding cloud security API governance and data interoperability.
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Stakeholder Alignment & Technical Influence
Partner with Product Architecture Operations and Client Technology to prioritize work unblock teams and drive outcomes.
Represent engineering in executive and governance forums with clarity around architectural options tradeoffs and investment needs.
Translate complex engineering realities into clear business insights that support strategic decision-making.
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What You Bring Technical Background
- Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science Engineering or relatedfield.
- 8 years of software engineering experience and 3 years leading technical teams or engineering managers.
- Deep experience with modern full-stack development cloud-native systems distributed architectures and high-scale platforms.
-Demonstratedexperience designing and shipping production LLM/AI systems: agentic frameworks RAG pipelines text-to-SQL grounding and AI evaluation harnesses.
- Hands-onexpertisewithPython Go TypeScript/JavaScript C# Java SQL/NoSQL; React FastAPI .NET Angular Core microservices Kubernetes
- Strong command of DevOps CI/CD automation infrastructure-as-code and observability.
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Leadership Competencies
- Strategic engineering thinker who balances innovation with disciplined execution.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers grow high-performing teams and attract top talent.
- Ability toinfluenceproduct business and technical leadership.
- Comfortable making architectural decisions that require both technical depth and business awareness.
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Bonus Experience (Highly Attractive)
- Distributed event streaming (Kafka EventHub) CQRS/event-sourcing patterns.
- Experience building platforms used across global organizations.
- Experience technically overseeing external development vendors or contract engineering teams.
Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health vision and dental insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and paid and unpaid time away from addition to a comprehensive benefits package Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire total hours worked job type business line and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement the geographic area in which the work will be performed market pay rates in that area and the candidates experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $ 124780.00 - $146800.00Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.
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