Lead Applied AI Engineer

Reposted 2 Months Ago
New York City, NY, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Information Technology • Software • Generative AI
The Role
As a Lead AI/ML Engineer, you'll develop LLM-powered investment research tools, optimize ML models, and engage with clients to enhance product offerings.
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👶 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!

Skills Required

  • Experience building LLM systems from the ground up
  • Strong communication skills for client-facing role
  • Ability to collaborate with senior stakeholders
  • Experience in product-focused organizations
  • Strong organizational skills
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
111 Employees
Year Founded: 2023

What We Do

Junior leverages the power of generative AI to help deal teams and their advisors collaborate more effectively, uncover deeper insights, and accelerate their path to output. Our platform is purpose-built for the diligence process, with custom workflows that streamline how teams extract, structure, and analyze information. We deliver: • Best-in-class transcription with structured extraction of expert call insights • Instant key takeaways automatically generated after each call • Intelligent search across transcripts to pinpoint relevant insights fast • Quantitative tracking to monitor findings across interviews • Custom GPT-based synthesis that lets you query and summarize expert input at scale By integrating seamlessly into your workflow, Junior transforms raw information into actionable intelligence - quickly, accurately, and securely.

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