Sr. AI Platform Engineer
Realtor.com Careers
- Location
- Hybrid (Austin, Texas)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the Role
Realtor.com is seeking an AI Platform Engineer to build and maintain the internal AI tooling foundation, empowering safe and scalable AI adoption across the company. This role focuses on operational excellence, access controls, and governance for key AI tools, impacting how employees leverage AI for productivity.
Skills
Benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Time Off
Perks
- Free snacks
- Refreshments
Full job details
Recognized as the No. 1 site trusted by real estate professionals, Realtor.com® has been at the forefront of online real estate for over 25 years, connecting buyers, sellers, and renters with trusted insights and expert guidance to find their perfect home. Through its robust suite of tools, Realtor.com® not only makes a significant impact on the real estate industry at large, but for consumers, navigating the biggest purchase they will make in their life, by providing a user experience that is easy to use, easy to understand, and most of all, easy to make decisions.
Join us on our mission to empower more people to find their way home by breaking barriers to entry, making the right connections, and building confidence through expert guidance.
Realtor.com is looking for an AI Platform Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve the internal AI tooling foundation that powers safe, scalable AI adoption across the company. This role will focus on access controls, platform maintenance, operational support, and governance for key AI tools including Portkey, Claude, Gemini, Windsurf, and Glean.
You will partner closely with AI Solutions Engineers, Security, IT, Legal, and business teams to ensure our approved AI surfaces are reliable, well-governed, cost-aware, and easy to use. This role is intended to handle infrastructure, gateway operations, and production-grade reliability, freeing solution builders to focus on workflow design and delivery.
If you thrive on making complex platforms secure, maintainable, and operationally excellent—and enjoy helping users successfully adopt new tooling—this role is for you.
Top reasons to apply
- Help shape the enterprise AI productivity platform and the paved-path tooling stack at Realtor.com, including Glean, Portkey, Claude, Gemini, Windsurf, and related platforms.
- Build the operational backbone for AI by improving governance, access, support, observability, and reliability across our approved tools.
- Make a company-wide impact by enabling safe AI adoption for employees while reducing fragmentation, vendor sprawl, and uncontrolled spend.
What you'll do
- Own day-to-day platform operations for Portkey, Claude, Gemini, Windsurf, and Glean, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access requests, license hygiene, and support workflows.
- Design and enforce access controls such as SSO, role-based access, least privilege, connector approvals, and periodic access reviews across AI tools and integrations.
- Operate and mature the LLM gateway layer with Portkey or similar tooling to centralize model access, routing, observability, guardrails, spend limits, rate limiting, and PII controls.
- Support approved AI platforms as part of the company’s paved path, helping define where each tool fits and how teams should use them responsibly.
- Monitor platform health, usage trends, reliability, incidents, and cost signals; turn findings into operational improvements, support documentation, and decision-ready reporting.
- Lead maintenance activities such as configuration updates, version management, vendor coordination, renewal support, and change-management readiness for AI platforms and integrations.
- Create and maintain runbooks, support guides, operating procedures, and handoff documentation so teams can use AI tooling confidently and sustainably.
- Partner with Security, Legal, and governance stakeholders to align tooling with approved policies, acceptable use rules, data handling requirements, and News Corp expectations.
- Help standardize and rationalize the AI tool stack, including migrations away from legacy or duplicative tools and toward governed enterprise-supported platforms.
- Serve as an escalation point for user issues and operational blockers, working across internal teams and vendors to resolve problems quickly and improve the user experience over time.
What you'll bring
- 5+ years experience administering or supporting enterprise AI tools, developer tooling, or SaaS platforms with a strong focus on access management, operational support, and maintenance.
- Hands-on familiarity with tools such as Glean, Gemini, Windsurf, Claude, and Portkey, or closely related AI platforms.
- Strong understanding of SSO, RBAC, least privilege, identity lifecycle management, and secure connector governance.
- Experience with observability, monitoring, incident alerting, and service reliability practices that support SLAs and platform health.
- Comfort working with APIs, cloud platforms, and technical integrations across enterprise systems.
- Familiarity with change management, documentation, configuration management, and support processes for production systems.
- Strong judgment around AI governance, data handling, and safe rollout practices in enterprise environments.
- A service-oriented mindset with the ability to translate technical constraints into practical guidance for both technical and non-technical users.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
How success is measured in year 1
- Core AI tools have clear, scalable access and support processes with strong license hygiene, documented ownership, and timely provisioning and deprovisioning.
- Portkey or the approved gateway layer is operating as a trusted foundation for centralized model access, guardrails, and observability.
- Claude, Gemini, Windsurf, and Glean are supported through a more governed, maintainable, and cost-aware operating model.
- AI Solutions Engineers and business teams can rely on stable paved-path platforms, runbooks, and support channels rather than ad hoc platform ownership.
- Leadership has better visibility into tool adoption, usage, costs, risks, and reliability through recurring reporting and operational metrics.
How We Work
We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration. For most roles, our employees work three or more days in our offices, where they have the opportunity to collaborate in-person, adding richness to our culture and knitting us closer together.
How We Reward You
Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families. Our benefits programs include, but are not limited to:
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Immediate eligibility into Company 401(k) plan with 3.5% company match
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- 1:1 personalized Financial Planning Sessions
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Free snacks and refreshments in each office location
Do the best work of your life at Realtor.com®
Here, you’ll partner with a diverse team of experts as you use leading-edge tech to empower everyone to meet a crucial goal: finding their way home. And you’ll find your way home too. At Realtor.com®, you’ll bring your full self to work as you innovate with speed, serve our consumers, and champion your teammates. In return, we’ll provide you with a warm, welcoming, and inclusive culture; intellectual challenges; and the development opportunities you need to grow.
Diversity is important to us, therefore, Realtor.com® is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Realtor.com® will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
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