Applied AI Engineer, Homeward
$160k
+ Annual performance bonus eligibility + Equity
Home finance company
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Home finance company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160k
+ Annual performance bonus eligibility + Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build innovative home finance solutions to overcome the limitations of the traditional mortgage.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a self-starter who takes pride in ownership of their work, can diagnose issues and develop solutions quickly, and communicates clearly with multiple stakeholders
- 4-6 years of professional back-end development experience, ideally in a fast-moving environment
- Hands-on experience building or operating AI/ML systems in production, and a real interest in the practical side of it - reliability, performance, cost, and safety
- Production experience with LLM APIs, including prompt design and context management
- Strong experience with Python and a back-end framework such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI
- Solid grounding in web development best practices - REST APIs, asynchronous task management, and sound data management
- Good judgment on the trade-offs between reliability, latency, cost, quality, and maintainability, and the willingness to make the call
- Incredibly strong ownership of delivering the right solutions at a high quality
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to make complex things clear to others
- A build, test, learn mindset with a bias toward action and a focus on business outcomes
- Scrappy and flexible - from updating an email template to building a complex web app, you do what the team needs and you're eager to learn along the way
- General curiosity and comfort navigating a fast-changing AI landscape
- Working knowledge of version control and CI/CD tools
What the job involves
- Homeward is looking for an Applied AI Engineer to help us build AI into our products and the way our team works
- This role has two sides: building the tooling and practices that make it easier for every team here to build with AI, and taking on hard, AI-solved problems
- Our Product & Technology team works closely with internal partners as well as our external customers, agents, and their teams and brokerages, so the AI products you build will reach both
- This role reports to the SVP, Technology
- Have an immediate impact on how Homeward builds with AI
- Design, build, and maintain AI-powered features in our products, including LLM API integrations, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines, and AI-driven automation across our customer, agent, and operations tools
- Understand and communicate requirements and
- Build and improve shared tooling and reusable components that make it easier for teams across tech to access, integrate, and operate LLMs in production
- Contribute to the tooling we use to keep AI features reliable - observability, monitoring, evaluation, and prompt and context management - so we can measure and debug them with confidence
- Take on hard, ambiguous problems that can be solved leveraging LLMs and ML to solve real business problems, then help others learn how to solve similar problems
- Prototype solutions quickly, then work with peers and senior engineers to harden them into something we can ship and maintain
- Help shape the patterns and practices for building with AI at Homeward, and make the right way the easy way for the rest of the team
- Evaluate new models, tools, and approaches, recommend what's worth adopting, and help others adopt it
- Use AI coding assistants (Claude, Copilot) as a natural part of your daily workflow, and help the team get more out of them
- Write automated unit and integration tests to support our CI pipelines, and participate in code reviews
- Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Data to make sure what we build is useful, well-documented, and easy to adopt
Our take
Sellers historically favour more dependable all-cash purposes, but few are in a position to offer them. Moreover, nobody favours the drawn-out choreography of timing one’s home sale with a new home purchase. Homeward allows customers to make all-cash purchases on new homes through the company, which buys on their behalf and sells to the customer once they’ve closed on their existing home.
By providing a seamless experience under three companies, it is a comprehensive service covering the home-buying process from start to finish. Homeward's solution is elegant, and proving hugely popular - it is currently oversubscribed in markets across the country. It’s a new, innovative development in a legacy industry in dire need of change.
Importantly, Homeward is attractive to investors, and the Austin-based company is no doubt additionally cashing in on the increased VC interest in the growing Texas tech scene. Further, following its success in the Texas, Georgia, and Colorado markets, Homeward is planning to go nationwide with its real estate solution. It has already extended to Florida and Arizona, and looks to conquer more states in the future.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2021
$136m
SERIES B
May 2020
$20m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $160m
Company benefits
- Every full-time member of our team gets an equity grant. We all own a piece of our success
- In addition to 12 company holidays and two floating holidays, our team members enjoy 20 days of vacation and can rest easy with five sick days
- Homeward employees have medical, dental, vision, and counseling coverage
- New human in the house? You’ll get up to 14 weeks of paid leave as a primary caregiver and up to seven weeks as a secondary caregiver
- We can’t see the future, but we can help you be smart about it with life and accident insurance as well as a 401K match
Company HQ
Lost Creek, TX
Leadership
Tim Heyl
(Founder & CEO)Tim studied Finance and Real Estate at Texas A&M. He also founded Mint Title, Phone Animal and The Heyl Group.
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