Applied AI Engineer
Posted 31 Jul 2025
Advertised as “Lead Applied AI Engineer”
BranchFactor Summary
The original posting with the fluff stripped out
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
👶 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
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Bootstrapped and profitable
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$25M+ in revenue after growing 10x last year
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70+ people across the company
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25-person engineering team
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Join as our third Applied AI hire!
💡 Role Description
As one of our first AI/ML hires, you'll have the unique opportunity to:
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Move quickly from research to production
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Freedom to experiment with new approaches and stay current with the latest research.
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Raise the quality bar for AI systems used by the world’s leading PE/Consulting firms.
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Collaborate closely with our customers and shape the product direction
Sample set of projects
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State-of-the-art transcription using ensembles of frontier models.
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Voice agent for market research interviews that identifies gaps, knows where to probe, and develops new hypotheses.
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Self-improving AI systems where product usage feeds back into evaluations and optimization.
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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:
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Based in NYC
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Are opinionated about their work and eager to contribute to product decisions
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Have strong communication skills and a desire for a client-facing role
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Are able to break down AI/ML problems for a non-technical audience clearly and succinctly, and translate their suggestions into testable experiments.
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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
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Have a strong bias to action, highly organised and experienced working with senior stakeholders to deliver large projects end to end
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Excited to build a team
🌵 Benefits
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Private health insurance
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Equinox gym membership
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401k match
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Dinner provided when working late
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Team lunch provided every day at the office
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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!