Data Engineer/Software Engineer

About Prophetic

Real estate development is a multi-billion-dollar industry that has run on fragmented data, manual processes, and gut instinct for decades. Prophetic is changing that. We're building the AI-native platform that enables homebuilders, developers, and investors to find, analyze, and act on land opportunities from a single system — powered by proprietary technologies that process billions of data points across all 50 states. We are the market leader in our space, and our customers don't just use the product — they love it. We're not making teams more efficient. We're changing how they operate.

Prophetic is scaling fast — demand is outpacing our ability to hire, and we're just getting started. This is a once-in-a-lifetime team: sharp, low ego, deeply collaborative, and obsessed with building the best product in the industry. Come disrupt an industry with us.

About the Role

Prophetic sits at the intersection of AI, geospatial intelligence, and real estate data — and we're looking for a Data Scientist / Software Engineer who can operate across all three. You'll build production-grade machine learning systems, predictive models, and data-driven features that power our platform's ability to help customers find, analyze, and act on land opportunities.

This is not a research-only role. You'll work across the full lifecycle — from exploratory analysis and model development to production deployment and monitoring. Your work will directly impact products like SearchAI, ZoneAI, SiteAI, and DevMap, where data science capabilities translate into competitive advantages for our customers.

You'll collaborate closely with our engineering and product teams to identify opportunities where machine learning and statistical modeling can improve platform intelligence. Whether it's building classifiers for zoning document extraction, predictive models for development activity, or recommendation systems for parcel scoring, your contributions will be visible in the product from day one.

Our engineering team uses AI tooling daily — Cursor, Claude Code, and Copilot are standard. You'll be expected to leverage these tools to accelerate your work while maintaining the rigor and quality that our enterprise customers depend on.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and deploy machine learning models and data science solutions that power platform features.
• Develop predictive models for development activity detection, parcel scoring, and market analysis.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for feature engineering, model training, and inference at scale.
• Work with large-scale geospatial datasets, parcel records, zoning data, and ownership information.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify high-impact opportunities for ML/AI-driven features.
• Monitor model performance in production and iterate on accuracy, latency, and reliability.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns, validate hypotheses, and inform product decisions.
• Write production-quality code that integrates with the platform's Python/Django and TypeScript/React stack.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and help define best practices for ML systems at Prophetic.
• Use AI development tooling (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) as part of your daily workflow.

What You Need

• 4 years of experience in data science, machine learning engineering, or applied ML roles.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML/data science libraries (scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, pandas, NumPy).
• Experience deploying ML models to production environments — not just notebooks.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large-scale relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred).
• Solid software engineering fundamentals — clean code, version control, testing, CI/CD.
• Experience with feature engineering, model evaluation, and iterative model improvement.
• Strong communication skills — you can explain technical approaches to non-technical stakeholders.
• Comfort with AI development tooling as part of your daily workflow.

Nice to Have

• Experience with geospatial data and analysis (PostGIS, GeoPandas, spatial statistics).
• Background in NLP or document understanding — particularly extraction from unstructured documents.
• Experience with cloud ML infrastructure (GCP Vertex AI, AWS SageMaker, or similar).
• Background in real estate, proptech, or urban analytics.
• Experience with Databricks, Spark, or distributed computing frameworks.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics, mathematics, or related).

Why Prophetic

• The team. Wide expertise, sharp, low ego, and genuinely fun to work with. We have each other's backs and we celebrate wins together.
• Real ownership and impact from day one. Our customers make million-dollar decisions on our platform. Your work matters immediately.
• AI-native product and AI-native workflows. Every team — engineering, sales, operations — runs on AI tooling daily.
• Founder-led transparency. Leadership shares the financials, the strategy, and the hard calls with the whole team.
• High growth, high demand. The product works, customers love it, and we are hiring to keep up. No shortage of opportunity here.
• Flexibility. Remote, hybrid, or in-office with a great Portland, OR headquarters.
• Self-starters who thrive in ambiguity. We're a startup. If you need someone to tell you what to do every morning, this isn't the place; if you come alive solving hard problems with smart people, it is.

Benefits (US-based Full-time Employees)

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you; 30% coverage for dependents
• Competitive salary and meaningful early-stage equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Remote / hybrid
• Office equipment stipend
• In-office perks: snacks, drinks, coffee, ping-pong table, and more — plus cuddles from Olive, our in-office Doberman
• Budget for intra-office travel
• 2–3 annual team meetups in person

How We Work

These four themes are how we think, build, and lead.

• Truth — Say the hard thing. We speak plainly, flag problems early, and share what's actually going on.
• Precision — Sign your name to it. Our customers make million-dollar decisions on our data. We get the details right.
• Velocity — Speed compounds. Waiting doesn't. We ship daily and launch features every two to three weeks.
• Ownership — Own it, then solve it. We own outcomes, not tasks. If something's broken, we fix it.

EEO:

Prophetic Software is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants, and we make employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. We actively seek to build a diverse team and encourage candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. Reasonable accommodations are available upon request for qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and employment process.