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!