Lead AI Engineer

Position: Lead AI Engineer

Locations: Denver, CO;
San Francisco, CA;
Phoenix, AZ;
Chicago, IL;
Dallas, TX (and other Prologis office locations may be considered).

The Lead AI Engineer builds production AI platform capabilities that transform Prologis building, project, asset, and operational data into reusable solutions for construction, procurement, and operations teams. As a lead individual contributor, this role provides technical leadership through architecture, hands‑on implementation, pattern‑setting, and ownership of production outcomes rather than people management.

• Design and implement production AI platform capabilities, including agents, retrieval‑augmented generation, tool calling, workflow orchestration, evaluation, and human review.
• Build an AI‑native building knowledge platform that links building models, assets, documents, telemetry, and operational context.
• Develop multimodal data pipelines that convert BIM, Autodesk, geospatial, document, and operational data into structured, queryable knowledge.
• Deliver AI workflows supporting design, construction, commissioning, building operations, sustainment, and reinvestment use cases.
• Move priority solutions from prototype through pilot and production with appropriate governance, documentation, evaluation, observability, and operational readiness.
• Establish reusable engineering patterns that enable successful pilots to scale into enterprise platform capabilities.
• Partner with business, technology, security, and operations teams to define workflows, technical scope, implementation plans, rollout approaches, and post‑launch improvements.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, data engineering, applied AI, automation, technology consulting, or a related technical delivery role.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, or maintaining AI‑assisted workflows, large language model applications, or agentic systems for business use cases.
• Experience translating ambiguous workflows, spreadsheets, document repositories, project records, and stakeholder feedback into structured, testable, and governed solutions.
• Experience leading discovery, workflow mapping, technical scoping, implementation, rollout, and post‑launch iteration with users or domain teams.
• Ability to apply context engineering, retrieval‑augmented generation, semantic layers, tool or function calling, structured outputs, orchestration, evaluation, and human‑in‑the‑loop design.
• Programming or scripting capability in Python, Type Script, JavaScript, or a comparable language.
• Experience integrating APIs, SaaS platforms, data sources, workflow tools, and enterprise systems.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions, risks, and outcomes clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Experience with agent frameworks or orchestration patterns such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Lang Chain, Lang Graph, Llama Index, MCP, Auto Gen, CrewAI, n8n, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with Autodesk construction and building platforms, BIM, geospatial systems, reality capture, simulation platforms, or digital twins.
• Experience with AWS IoT, AWS Lambda, event‑driven or serverless architectures, streaming telemetry, rules engines, or cloud‑native operational data platforms.
• Experience with building lifecycle systems, operational technology, building management systems, asset management, estimating, bid management, project controls, or field support.
• Experience with data platform patterns such as knowledge graphs, entity resolution, ontologies, vector databases, Snowflake, data lakes, semantic layers, or BI and reporting.
• Demonstrates willingness and capability to leverage emerging technology, automation, and AI tools to improve efficiency, quality, and speed.
• Exercises sound judgment, creative thinking, and accountability for outcomes.

Salary range: $147,000 – $202,000 (plus bonus target, benefits, and other compensation). Compensation is determined by location, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• Health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and eligible dependents.
• Generous PTO with a starting accrual of 22 days a year, paid holidays, and volunteer time.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a company match of 50% up to 12% of eligible compensation.
• Additional wellness, financial, and work/lifestyle‑specific benefits.

Prologis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.