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Lead Applied AI Engineer

Junior AI · New York City · On-site

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About Junior AI

Junior delivers industry-leading transcription and dynamic knowledge graphs for investors, advisors, and consultants. SOC 2 Type II certified, built for compliance, and trusted by top firms to save time, surface insights, and power billion-dollar deals. Backed by South Park Commons.

About the role

As one of our first AI/ML hires, you'll have the unique opportunity to: Build your coworker: build an in-house prompt system that can use production signals or human labels to constantly and iteratively refine and improve prompts and output

More about this role

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 several of the world’s top private equity firms, Big Four consultancies and leading financial institutions.

Bootstrapped and profitable

$25M+ in revenue after growing 10x last year

60+ people across the company

20-person engineering team, doubling to 40 this year

As one of our first AI/ML hires, you'll have the unique opportunity to:

Work on groundbreaking projects involving a mix of LLMs and traditional ML

Come up with novel research synthesis ideas using NLP techniques and prove their business value

Collaborate closely with our external partners to fuel our growth

Contribute to product decisions, direction and prioritization

Shape our engineering culture

Build a search ranking algorithm across open text, integrating signals from user interactions (e.g., edits, copies, and engagement metrics) alongside semantic and PostgreSQL-based text search to improve relevance...

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