Machine Learning Engineer - Leasing

Hi, We're App Folio

We're innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We're more than just a software company — we're building the AI-native platform where the real estate industry comes to do business. We're transforming property management: how properties are leased, how residents find their homes, and how intelligence flows across an entire portfolio.

Realm-X is App Folio's AI-native platform powering this transformation. Within it, Realm-X Leasing Performer is an autonomous AI agent that handles the end-to-end leasing lifecycle — lead management, tour scheduling, follow-up, application processing, etc. — on behalf of property managers and leasing teams. It's one of App Folio's most ambitious bets on autonomous AI, and it needs ML engineering worthy of that ambition.

We're hiring a Staff Machine Learning Engineer to own the ML strategy and execution that makes the Realm-X Leasing Performer production-grade, observable, and continuously improving. You'll sit at the intersection of applied ML, agent systems, and leasing domain expertise — working directly with Leasing Engineering, Voice & Agents, and Research ML to translate prototypes into systems our customers can depend on every day.

This isn't a platform‑only role. You'll be close enough to the product to shape how the Leasing Performer reasons, acts, and learns — and close enough to infrastructure to make sure it's reliable, cost‑efficient, and safe at scale.

• Own the ML Strategy for Leasing: Define and drive the machine learning roadmap across Leasing products — identifying where ML creates the most leverage, making the right model and architecture bets, and working closely with Product and Engineering leadership to align the team around a coherent technical vision that reflects real customer outcomes.
• Drive the Development & Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents: B