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!