Lead Applied AI Engineer

👶 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!

💡 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

🔥 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 → 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 Cancún

📩 HOW TO APPLY

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