Urban development is broken. Decisions that shape cities for decades get made on gut feel, outdated reports, and political convenience. The data exists—scattered across zoning codes, market analyses, demographic trends, infrastructure plans—but no one synthesizes it into actionable intelligence.
We're building AI-native infrastructure that transforms how urban development decisions get made. Not another dashboard. Not another data vendor. A decision engine that integrates fragmented information and delivers clear recommendations.
Our clients are developers, architects, investors, and city planners who are tired of flying blind. They want to know: Can I build here? Should I build here? What's the real risk? We answer in minutes, not months.
Replace intuition with systemic intelligence.
We're not hiring for roles. We're looking for people who can own problems end-to-end and ship solutions that work in the real world.
The best candidates have built things—software, companies, research projects—and understand that the hardest part isn't the code. It's understanding what to build and why it matters.
If you're the kind of person who gets frustrated by "that's not my job" thinking, who wants to understand the whole system rather than just your piece, who cares more about impact than title—we want to talk.
Embed with customers. Solve their hardest problems. Ship what works.
What makes this different from a typical engineering role? You're not building to a spec handed down from product. You're in the room with the customer, understanding their real problems, making judgment calls about what to build. You own the outcome, not just the output.
What you'll do
You might be a fit if
AI/ML experience is a plus, not a prerequisite.
Cities are where 70% of humans will live by 2050. The decisions being made today—where to build housing, how to zone neighborhoods, which infrastructure to prioritize—will shape billions of lives for generations.
Right now, these decisions are made poorly. Developers guess. Cities react. Communities suffer. The information to make better decisions exists, but it's fragmented, inaccessible, and rarely synthesized.
We're building the infrastructure to change that. Not by replacing human judgment, but by giving decision-makers the intelligence they need to make better choices.
Small teams. 2-5 people tackling deployment-specific challenges. No layers, no handoffs.
Ownership. We hand out problems, not tickets. You figure out the solution.
Product thinking. Understand why you're building, not just what.
Learning first. New domain? Master it. We invest in your growth.
Remote + close. Distributed team, travel when it matters.
Forward Deployed Engineer — Deploy AI solutions with strategic customers. Own the problem, not just the code.
Platform Engineer — Scale our core infrastructure: data pipelines, AI models, decision engines.
Urban Domain Specialist — Shape how our AI understands cities with deep domain expertise.
Ready to build the future of cities? Send us your info at sales@uptowner.ai.