Tasks

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) at Juna AI, you will work directly with customers to quickly understand their most pressing problems and design innovative, data-driven solutions. In this role, you'll apply your problem-solving abilities, creativity, and technical skills to help organizations leverage their data to make a real impact in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain rare insights into some of the most important industries and institutions globally, contributing to transformative projects.

Core Responsibilities

• Own High-Stakes Projects: Work in small teams to deliver critical projects for clients, taking full ownership from conception to deployment.

• Build Large-Scale AI Workflows: Develop and implement AI workflows that operate on a large scale, addressing complex industrial challenges.

• Collaborate with Customers: Interact directly with clients to understand their needs, and ensure our solutions meet their goals.

• Implement Real-World Solutions: Drive significant impact by deploying solutions within our partners' organizations, making a tangible difference in their operations.

• Hands-on Prototyping: Implement rapid prototypes for experimental features

• Strategic Decision-Making: With minimal oversight, you'll proactively identify the highest priority tasks and drive them to completion. Your decisions will shape the direction of our product development.

Requirements

Tech Excellence

• Engineering Background: Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Machine Learning.

• Strong ML Foundation: Solid foundation in machine learning fundamentals, including evaluation, training, and problem decomposition.

• AI Expertise: Past experience building solutions with AI and a deep understanding of the machine learning and reinforcement learning landscape.

• Programming Proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages like Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar.

• Data: Comfortable working with large-scale or messy data and iterating quickly

• Bonus: Experience with reinforcement learning, control systems, or real-time AI agents

Personal

• Analytical, self-directed, and thrives in fast-paced, dynamic environments

• Ownership, impact, and customer driven

• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites when needed

Benefits

• Impactful Work: An opportunity to shape the future of manufacturing by contributing to groundbreaking AI technologies that decarbonize heavy industries.

• Ownership: Equity participation, allowing you to share in our success as we grow.

• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with experienced AI manufacturing tech founders and a team of leading researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs.

• Professional Growth: Contribute your knowledge to drive our vision forward, with ample opportunities for learning and development.Inclusive Culture: A commitment to equal rights, mutual respect, and the promotion of diversity in our workplace.

We operate on the factory floor, not in slide decks. At Juna, you’ll solve high-stakes problems in the real world – chemical plants, paper lines, steel mills – and cut emissions of the biggest polluting industries in the world. We move fast, work face-to-face, and care about outcomes and solving customer problems. Juna is the place where you’ll experience the most impactful and productive time of your career.