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About this Lead Applied AI Engineer role at Junior AI

Junior AI Β· Onsite Β· New York City

πŸ‘Ά About Junior

Junior is building the AI operating system for investment research. Our software helps private equity firms, consultants and financial institutions complete high-stakes research workflows dramatically faster - from diligence and memo writing to market mapping, research synthesis and strategic analysis.

We’re trusted by 20/30 Top Global PE Funds by AUM & 18/20 Top Global Strategy Consultants

  • Bootstrapped and profitable

  • $25M+ in revenue after growing 10x last year

  • 70+ people across the company

  • 25-person engineering team

  • Join as our third Applied AI hire!

πŸ’‘ Role Description

As one of our first AI/ML hires, you'll have the unique opportunity to:

  • Move quickly from research to production

  • Freedom to experiment with new approaches and stay current with the latest research.

  • Raise the quality bar for AI systems used by the world’s leading PE/Consulting firms.

  • Collaborate closely with our customers and shape the product direction


Sample set of projects

  • State-of-the-art transcription using ensembles of frontier models.

  • Voice agent for market research interviews that identifies gaps, knows where to probe, and develops new hypotheses.

  • Self-improving AI systems where product usage feeds back into evaluations and optimization.

  • Agentic entity-resolution system that combines in-app and web context to resolve mistranscribed company names and aliases

πŸ”₯ About You

We're looking for product-minded AI/ML engineers who:

  • Based in NYC

  • Are opinionated about their work and eager to contribute to product decisions

  • Have strong communication skills and a desire for a client-facing role

  • Are able to break down AI/ML problems for a non-technical audience clearly and succinctly, and translate their suggestions into testable experiments.

  • Have experience building LLM systems from the ground up in a product-focused organization, and can help drive everything from data gathering / logging β†’ prompt optimizing

  • Have a strong bias to action, highly organised and experienced working with senior stakeholders to deliver large projects end to end

  • Excited to build a team

🌡 Benefits

  • Private health insurance

  • Equinox gym membership

  • 401k match

  • Dinner provided when working late

  • Team lunch provided every day at the office

  • Bi-annual international off-sites, recently including Crete and CancΓΊn

πŸ“© How to Apply

If you’re excited to drive innovation at Junior, we’d love to hear from you!

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