# Staff Engineer (Agentic AI & Data) **Company**: Zuma **Location**: San Francisco Bay Area **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/getzuma/3dd732f9-e4a6-4f38-8ec3-aa80434b261d **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_90db2237-cef ## Description About Zuma Zuma is pioneering the future of agentic AI and our focus is to transform the rental market experience for consumers and property manager alike. Our innovative platform is engineered from the ground up to boost operations efficiency and enhance support capabilities for property management business across the US and Canada, a ~$200B market. As a Staff Engineer, you will help define how humans collaborate with intelligent systems in one of the largest and most underserved industries in the world: property management. You’ll shape the technical foundation of a platform that is not just supporting human workflows, but executing them autonomously through AI agents. This is a rare opportunity to influence how an entire industry evolves, building tools that transform repetitive operational tasks into seamless, intelligent experiences. Your work will directly contribute to how trust is built between humans and machines, how operations scale without added headcount, and how residents and staff experience a new, AI-powered standard of service. Delightful, trustworthy, and deeply effective. Join us to help lead the AI revolution in multifamily, drive meaningful real-world impact, and be part of reimagining what work can feel like when done side-by-side with intelligent agents. You will be a cornerstone of our engineering organization, reporting to the VPE. This is a pivotal role where you'll lead critical system rewrites, architect scalable foundations for our AI platform, and establish the technical standards that will shape our engineering culture for years to come. You'll work at the intersection of cutting-edge LLM technology and practical business applications, creating sophisticated systems that power our AI leasing agent while building self-serve experiences that enable rapid customer onboarding. As our first US-based engineer, you'll bridge the gap between our product vision and technical implementation. This role offers a rare opportunity to directly influence how we architect the next generation of our platform. You'll tackle projects like rebuilding our onboarding/configuration system to be self-serve, creating robust analytics infrastructure to measure AI performance, and reimagining our integration framework to connect seamlessly with customer systems. Your work will significantly reduce manual engineering overhead while enabling rapid scaling of our customer base. ## Why This Could Be Your Dream Role - You'll work directly with cutting-edge LLM technology in a real-world application - You want to work at a company where customers feel your impact every day - You'll architect AI-powered systems that are transforming the real estate industry - You'll have autonomy to design and implement innovative technical solutions - Your work will directly impact thousands of apartment communities and millions of renters - You'll receive significant equity in a venture-backed company with strong traction ## Why You Might Want to Think Twice - This is a demanding role that will often require extended hours and deep commitment - As a founding team member, you'll need to wear multiple hats and step outside your comfort zone - You'll need to make thoughtful tradeoffs between innovation and immediate needs - You'll interact directly with customers to understand their needs and occasionally travel to their offices - We're a startup - priorities can shift rapidly as we respond to market opportunities and customer needs - If you're not comfortable getting your hands dirty with legacy code or speaking directly with customers, this isn't the job for you ## Responsibilities - Working closely with our product team to translate customer needs into technical solutions - Creating intelligent configuration interfaces that allow our AI to adapt to customer needs - Designing and implementing integration frameworks connecting our AI with customer systems - Establishing modern engineering practices and infrastructure for an AI-first product - Implementing robust analytics to measure and improve our AI's effectiveness - Leading the development of innovative features that push the boundaries of AI in real estate - Mentoring engineers and elevating the team's capabilities with LLM technologies ## Your Experience Looks Like - Strong people leadership experience and bias for action - Must have hands-on experience in architecting, designing and implementing agentic AI systems - Very strong experience in architecting and implementing scalable agentic systems - Hands-on experience using at least one agentic framework and familiarity with other agentic frameworks - Hands-on experience using cutting edge LLM, fine-tuning LLM and integrating them in production grade software used by real users - Proven track record in fast-paced startup environments and collaborating with global teams - Must have expertise in React and Python or Node.js - Knowledge of ML, AI, LLMs ## Guiding Principles - Customer‑First Outcomes - Bias for Simplicity - Quality Is a Gate, Not an After‑Thought - Data‑Driven Choices - Transparency & Written Culture ## Other Benefits - Great health insurance, dental, and vision - Gym and workspace stipends - Computer and workspace enhancements - Unlimited PTO - Company off-sites with the team - Opportunity to play a critical role in building the foundations of the company and Engineering culture ## Skills ### Required - agentic AI systems - LLM technology - React - Python - Node.js - ML - AI - LLMs