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Brief #07655Updated 09 SEP 2026NEW YORK CITY, NYAshbySOFTWARE COMPANIES
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Lead Applied AI Engineer

Junior AI created FormatFlow, which is a legal assistive tool that eliminates the tedious, frustrating parts of formatting documents. Try for free now!

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New York City, NY
Company size
2–10
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Lead Applied AI Engineer

Junior AI· New York CityView company profile


Job title
Lead Applied AI Engineer
Job location
New York City
Job description

👶 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!

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