GenAI Engineer
Apartment List
Israel
Posted on Jan 16, 2025
At Apartment List, we’re on a mission to find every renter a home they love at the value they deserve. As the fastest-growing online rental marketplace, our platform uses technology to attract, nurture, and connect renters to properties; and help properties easily find their next renter. To date, we’ve helped over 1 million families find a home they love, and we’re just getting started. Apartmentlist is a growing serious D US company, with an R&D branch in Israel. We are working in a startup mode while having the benefits of a stable large company. Join us!
At the AI Nurture team, we leverage cutting-edge AI to transform the apartment renting experience, creating seamless connections between renters and property managers. As a GenAI engineer on the Data Science team, you will be instrumental in shaping our core product by optimizing LLM prompts, designing conversation engine architecture, and implementing RAG technologies for accurate data retrieval. Your responsibilities will include prompt engineering, evaluating LLM responses, improving outputs through data-driven decisions, and integrating new models and technologies to enhance user experiences. Collaborating closely with the Engineering team, you will drive the success of our product using the best technologies in the industry.
In This Role, You Will Be Responsible For
- Be the main contributor to refining and enhancing our conversational AI engine which is a core product offering serving millions of rental conversations
- Build, optimize, and fine-tune generative AI models, including large language models (LLMs), for innovative applications such as text generation, summarization, question answering, and visual data processing. Apply NLP techniques to analyze unstructured data, uncover insights, evaluate responses, and enable capabilities like sentiment analysis, entity recognition, and text classification.
- End-to-End Solution Development: Design, develop, and deploy robust Generative AI (GenAI) solutions to address key challenges in apartment leasing. This includes everything from exploratory data analysis to production deployment.
- Implement best practices for model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement to ensure the high performance, reliability, and scalability of GenAI solutions in production environments. In addition, continuously explore and implement emerging GenAI technologies to drive innovation and enhance product capabilities.
- Invest in developing and enhancing infrastructure for GenAI applications, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, seamless workflow between different components in the code and the LLM applications and other tools to streamline development and deployment.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with stakeholders across departments to understand business requirements, align objectives, and deliver impactful AI-driven solutions that address real-world challenges.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, or a related field, with a focus on AI/ML.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience in AI engineering, with a proven track record of deploying and fine-tuning impactful AI solutions.
- Proficiency in Python and SQL for data manipulation, analysis, and model building.
- A GenAI enthusiast with deep experience with LLMs and prompt engineering, including systematic evaluation of enterprise AI solutions.
- Analytical mindset: adept at statistical analysis, data exploration, and critically evaluating models.
- Experience with building RAG systems and conversational chatbots.
- Project management: ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, balancing short-term and long-term goals to deliver high-impact results.
- Proactive, curious, and continuously learning about the evolving AI landscape, with creative thinking, a bias for action, and hands-on experimentation.
Nice to have:
- Experience with machine learning libraries such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, or scikit-learn.
- Experience with Node.js and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for model deployment and MLOps practices and tools.
Our Data Science team is the core engine driving our product. ApartmentList’s tech ecosystem is rich and constantly evolving as we add new features to meet our clients’ needs at scale. Our team retains a fast-paced, start-up energy that fosters innovation, creativity, and critical thinking. At ApartmentList, you’ll collaborate with a diverse, global team of engineers, developers, and product managers. Together, we’re building the future of our best-in-class product suite, helping renters find their next home.
Why join Apartmentlist?
- An opportunity to be a key player in a dynamic, international R&D environment
- Working on cutting-edge AI technologies in generative AI
- Work on the core product of the business - your action will affect millions of renters!
- A collaborative and supportive work culture focused on innovation and growth
- Being in the center with the highest level of impact in the exciting field of prop-tech
- Awesome working environment with people who genuinely enjoy their craft and one another