Senior Applied AI Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including executives and teams from sales, finance, HR, and marketing, to pinpoint workflows where custom agents can provide leverage.

• Convert vague business challenges into clear requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria.

• Guide solutions through the stages of prototyping, stakeholder validation, refining, deployment, production rollout, and ongoing operations.

• Design and construct agentic systems, including retrieval and context design, tool and MCP integration, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, observability, and cost management.

• Create event-driven, scalable systems capable of ingesting and processing large quantities of data and documents.

• Collaborate with platform, R&D, and product engineering teams on projects involving core systems.

• Make engineering decisions that prioritize reliability, security, maintainability, and reusability.

• Take ownership of deployed solutions through user adoption, post-launch support, iterative feedback from users, and ongoing operations.

• Produce documentation, train users, and manage rollouts to enhance adoption rates.

• Set technical standards for less experienced engineers and progress toward leading projects, including client-facing initiatives.

• Contribute developed patterns to Applied AI's library of reusable components.

• Build and manage AI systems for Juniper Square, a partner providing technology, data, and fund administration services to private markets general partners.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of professional experience delivering production software end-to-end, with practical experience in developing AI-native applications or agents.

• Strong skills in systems design, including components, trade-offs, and system modifications.

• Full-stack engineering expertise across data, services, user interfaces, and infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience in infrastructure ownership, deploying and operating applications on a major cloud provider.

• Familiarity with containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.

• Proficiency in AI-assisted development with the capability to understand, debug, and defend deployed systems.

• Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into actionable requirements and deliver functional software.

• Strong product judgment in defining scope, prioritizing tasks, and determining project completion.

• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to convey technical concepts clearly to non-technical colleagues.

• Potential to engage directly with clients as the team's responsibilities expand.

• Preferred: experience in private markets, financial services, or other regulated, data-sensitive sectors.

• Preferred: knowledge of application security and sensitive data handling practices, including multi-tenant isolation.

• Preferred: experience with evaluation and regression testing for non-deterministic systems.

• Preferred: familiarity with event-driven architectures and large-scale document processing.

• Preferred: background in client-facing roles, consulting, professional services, or forward-deployed engineering.

• Applicants must address U.S. and/or Canada employment sponsorship requirements in their application.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

• Life insurance provision.

• Mental wellness support.

• Assistance for fertility and growing family needs.

• Flex Time Off in addition to company-paid holidays.

• Paid family leave, medical leave, and bereavement leave policies.

• Retirement savings plans.

• Allowance to personalize your work and technology setup at home.

• Annual professional development stipend.

• Equity opportunities.