Forward-Deployed AI Engineer
AHL + Saaf AI — Mortgage Lending, Reimagined
Saaf AI is building the future of mortgage lending by combining cutting-edge AI with proven lending operations. Saaf AI is part of American Heritage Lending, a top-10 private lender processing billions in loan volume, with 15+ years of growth. We are backed by some of the largest asset managers and funds and are growing fast.
We're not experimenting with AI. We're deploying it. From underwriting to document processing to borrower experience, all are shaped by AI. If you want to work somewhere that uses AI as a core building material — you're in the right place.
The Role
We're hiring a Forward-Deployed AI Engineer to design and ship AI-powered products and agents from end to end. This isn't an ML research role or a prompt-engineering sandbox. It's a hands-on builder role — you own the full arc from "here's a business problem" to "here's a working AI system in production."
Mortgage lending is one of the last industries to be meaningfully transformed by AI. The problems are hard, the data is rich, and the stakes are real. You'll work directly on the things that matter most: automating underwriting decisions, building intelligent borrower-facing experiences, creating agents that navigate complex loan workflows, and using AI to compress tasks that currently take days into minutes.
This role is right for you if:
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You've shipped AI-powered products or agents to production — not just prototypes
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You think in systems: LLM calls, tool use, retrieval, evaluation, and feedback loops are design primitives to you
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You move fast and take ownership — you'd rather build the thing than debate the spec
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You want to be in a market where AI genuinely changes lives, not just optimizes click-through rates
What You'll Build
AI Agents & Autonomous Workflows
Mortgage lending is a process-heavy industry — condition management, document review, borrower communication, underwriting analysis. You'll design and ship agents that automate or accelerate these workflows end to end:
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Build multi-step LLM agents that can navigate loan files, evaluate conditions, flag exceptions, and surface recommendations to underwriters
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Design agentic workflows with tool use, structured output, memory, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints — not one-shot prompts
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Integrate AI agents with internal systems, external data sources, and third-party APIs to close the loop between insight and action
AI-Powered Document & Data Intelligence
Mortgage processing is document-intensive. You'll build the AI layer that makes documents machine-readable and actionable:
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Extend and improve document extraction pipelines — income documents, appraisals, title, and more — using the latest extraction and classification models
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Build retrieval-augmented systems that let underwriters and borrowers query complex loan files in natural language
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Design feedback mechanisms that use reviewer corrections to improve extraction accuracy over time
Borrower & Loan Officer Experience
You'll use AI to make the borrower journey faster, clearer, and less stressful — and give loan officers AI-powered tools that make them dramatically more effective:
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Build AI-generated task lists and smart checklists that adapt to each borrower's loan scenario
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Create intelligent routing and prioritization — which loan needs attention now, which borrower is at risk of drop-off, which condition is the blocker
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Design conversational AI experiences that guide borrowers through complex decisions without requiring a loan officer on every interaction
AI Evaluation & Quality Systems
You'll care about whether the AI actually works — not just whether it runs:
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Build evaluation frameworks that measure AI output quality against ground truth, not just latency
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Design human review workflows where AI confidence is low, and use those reviews to create labeled training data
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Monitor production AI performance — accuracy, coverage, failure mode