Principal Engineer (Leadership Track)

Diald AI — Los Angeles / Hybrid (or Remote for exceptional candidates)

Diald AI is building the next generation of real estate intelligence: a multi-tenant enterprise platform that uses AI to extract, interpret, and operationalize qualitative information about real estate properties. Our mission is to help owners, investors, and operators make faster and smarter decisions — with deeper insight into the real-world signals that drive value and risk.

We’re early, obsessed, and ambitious — and we’re looking for builders who want to shape the core of a category-defining company.

At Diald AI, we are building a company for people who love the work — not just the idea of the work. Our culture rewards curiosity, intensity, and a genuine desire to push boundaries in an industry long overdue for change. We operate with minimal hierarchy, fast decision cycles, and deep respect for people who take ownership and move with purpose.

We’re looking for someone who finds joy in building: a builder-leader who works hard not because they’re told to, but because solving hard problems is intrinsically motivating. Someone who is energized — not intimidated — by pace, ambiguity, and the responsibility that comes with real autonomy.

Selflessness is core to who we are. Team and company come before ego. Flexibility is expected: roles evolve quickly, and the right person adapts even faster. If you prefer stability, predictability, and playing a narrow role in a large machine, this is likely not the right fit. Corporate “cogs” struggle here.

But for the right leader — someone who sees work as a craft, not a chore — Diald AI offers something rare: the opportunity to build a product that meaningfully reshapes the built world. We move quickly, learn continuously, take calculated risks, and support each other fiercely.

This role is ideal for a senior engineer who has worked inside a growing startup, seen what “good” looks like, and is now ready to step into broader technical and organizational leadership. You won’t be a cog here — and you won’t be alone. You’ll grow with the company.

We’re hiring a Principal Engineer (Leadership Track) to serve as a senior technical leader at Diald AI. You’ll be deeply hands-on while also shaping architecture, technical direction, and engineering culture. This role is designed for someone who wants to move into a broader engineering leadership role over time — including team-building, mentoring, and organizational ownership.

You’ll work closely with the CEO and cross-functional leaders to define priorities, ship enterprise features quickly, and scale the product into a durable platform.

• Serve as a senior technical leader for Diald AI, partnering with the CEO to shape and execute the technology roadmap
• Architect and evolve an enterprise-grade, multi-tenant AI platform focused on qualitative analysis of real estate properties
• Build and scale backend services in Python, including data processing pipelines and ML/LLM-related systems
• Develop responsive dashboards and client-facing portals using React or Vue.js
• Own engineering standards for reliability, security, and scalability — including progress toward SOC 2 readiness
• Collaborate with product, sales, and customer success to prioritize roadmaps, balancing speed, quality, and technical debt
• Play a key role in hiring, mentoring, and growing the engineering team over time
• Drive cloud infrastructure decisions (GCP), cost optimization, and vendor selection

• 7 years building production software, with deep hands-on expertise in Python backend systems and modern JavaScript frameworks (React or Vue)
• Experience in a senior or lead engineering role in a SaaS environment, ideally within a company that grew meaningfully during your tenure
• Strong architectural instincts and ability to own systems end-to-end (design → implementation → deployment → maintenance)
• Experience mentoring engineers and leading small teams or major projects; interest in growing into people leadership
• Comfort operating in high-ambiguity environments with fast-moving priorities and minimal hierarchy
• High ownership mindset — you naturally take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks

• Experience designing and scaling RAG pipelines, multi-modal ingestion flows, vector search systems, and LLM context-management architectures
• Experience building agentic AI systems, including tool integration, memory systems, orchestration frameworks, and multi-step reasoning agents
• Familiarity with LLM prompt engineering and distributed context-chaining approaches at scale
• Background in real estate, fintech, or adjacent B2B SaaS domains
• Experience working on security, compliance, or enterprise-readiness initiatives (SOC 2, audit logs, permissions systems, etc.)

Diald AI offers a rare opportunity: to join early enough to shape the product, architecture, and culture — but with enough momentum that you’re building something real, not a science project.

If the idea of staying up late because you’re excited to finish something (not because someone asked you to) feels familiar, you’ll thrive here.

We offer competitive compensation and meaningful equity upside, aligned to early-stage leadership impact.

Send your resume or LinkedIn profile, plus a short note on:

1. what you’ve built that you’re most proud of, and
2. why Diald AI is the kind of environment where you’d thrive.