Forward Deployed Engineer (Real Estate)

Overview

Why this role

Real assets are among the largest asset classes in the world and among the least well served by software. Cherre already has the data layer that makes AI agents viable in this industry, which almost nobody else does. You would be among the first people turning that into something clients use every day, in a function you help define. Whether that means going deeper technically or eventually leading engagements is a choice you make later, not today.

What the work actually looks like

The future of real assets is agentic. Our clients feel this shift coming, but many struggle moving from pilot into production. That gap is the job:

• A fund with 40 operating partners, each sending financials on a different chart of accounts. Agents build the mapping, maintain it as partners change their own books, and onboard the next partner as the business grows, without an analyst starting over every time.
• An asset management team that answers the same portfolio questions every month by hand, out of four systems, into a deck.
• An owner who wants to ask a plain-English question about their portfolio and get an answer that is correct, from an agent that knows when it does not know.

The interesting problems are rarely the model. They are entity resolution, messy source systems, workflows that exist only in someone's head, and the gap between an impressive demo and something a controller will sign off on.

You will be hands on. You will also be the person in the room when a client explains their use case for the first time, and the person who decides what gets built to meet their objectives. Done is an agent reliable enough for production, handed off to whoever will run it, while you move on to their next problem.

Responsibilities

What you will do

• Embed with client teams. Map their data, decompose their processes, and define and prioritize the use cases worth building, including the parts of the workflow nobody documents. Translate those priorities into agentic solutions that create value for the business.
• Architect and build. Design the approach, then build it: agent workflows, tool and data integrations, evaluation harnesses, and the plumbing connecting it to Cherre's platform. Business process becomes orchestration logic: triggers, tools, guardrails, and human checkpoints.
• Own delivery end to end. From scoping through production and handoff to the teams who support it. Ship early, put it in front of real users, find out where it is wrong, and fix it.
• Instrument everything you ship. Build for auditability, version control, and cost predictability. These clients operate under real financial and regulatory scrutiny, and "the agent decided" is not an acceptable answer.
• Build for the second deployment while delivering the first. Decide what is worth making reusable, build it so the next client gets there faster, and feed recurring patterns back to product and engineering as templates and accelerators.
• Deliver what was agreed. New use cases surface constantly. The good ones are the next engagement, not this week's extra work.
• Help build the machine. As one of the first FDEs here, you will document how you work and help turn it into a process other engineers can run. How you work becomes how the function works.

Qualifications

What you bring

We care more about what you have done than how long you have been doing it. The experience range above is a guide, not a filter.

• A record of shipping production systems inside someone else's environment, under someone else's constraints. You can walk us through one that broke, how you found out, and what you changed.
• Strong hands-on engineering, and you still want to write code. We are flexible on stack; Python, SQL, APIs, and comfort in messy data environments go a long way.
• You have built with LLMs well beyond a prototype, and you have opinions about what is hard: evaluation, non-determinism, context, tool design, and knowing when an agent is the wrong answer.
• Judgment about where automation belongs and where a human stays in the loop.
• Comfort sitting with business operators and turning how they describe their work into system design. You can hold both conversations in the same meeting: the technical tradeoff with their engineer, and the business outcome with their executive.
• Fluency in real assets or financial operations: fund reporting, asset management, valuations, deal pipelines, investor reporting. You can follow a client conversation without a translator.
• You work well when requirements arrive as a conversation instead of a ticket, and you know how to turn the first into the second.
• 30% domestic travel

Bonus points

• Prior forward-deployed, solutions architecture, or consulting-adjacent engineering experience.
• Experience with agentic orchestration and development tooling such as Claude Code, n8n, LangGraph, or Temporal.
• Background in enterprise SaaS or data infrastructure serving regulated industries.
• Early-stage or 0 to 1 experience where you built the process as well as the product.

SALARY AND BENEFITS RealPage provides a competitive salary package along with a comprehensive benefit plan that includes:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement savings plan with company match.
• Paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Performance-based bonus based on position.

Compensation may vary depending on your location, qualifications including job-related education, training, experience, licensure, and certification, that could result at a level outside of these ranges. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including annual bonus, and sales incentives depending on the terms of the applicable plan and role as well as individual performance. Equal Opportunity Employer: RealPage Company is an equal opportunity employer and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Pay Range USD $129,400.00 - USD $220,400.00 /Yr.