Staff Software Engineer
Chicago, IL On-site
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About the role
JLL is rolling out AI agents directly into business lines: Capital Markets, Leasing, Property Management, and corporate functions. Forward Deployed AI Engineers (FDEs) are the engineers who sit inside those lines, learn the work from the people doing it, and bootstrap the agents that change how that work gets done. You will own a business line as a one-person engineering team. The Center of Excellence in our central AI team gives you the methodology, the platform, and the patterns; the business line gives you the problems, the SMEs, and the appetite for change. Your job is to turn that into shipped agents and MCP integrations, then hand mature work off to platform and operations as it stabilizes. We expect engineers at this level to operate with AI tools as a primary part of their workflow. Your leverage comes from the hooks, skills, workflows, and automations you install to ship safely to production. The leverage in this role is AI, not headcount. Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.
What you'll bring
- Shipped production agents using Claude Agent SDK, MCP, or an equivalent stack.
- Production code in at least one of Python, Node, or .NET, with comfort moving across the others.
- Worked with diverse data stores: relational, NoSQL, object/blob, vector, and document.
- Operated end-to-end as a one-person team: design, ship, support, hand off.