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Forward Deployed Engineer II, Applied AI

AI summary of the role

Forward-deployed, AI-first engineering role at Juniper Square's Applied AI unit, working directly with GP clients to design, build, and operate custom AI agents that solve operational problems in private markets.

What you’ll do

  • Work directly with GP clients to identify workflows where custom AI agents create leverage
  • Support discovery and translate ambiguous business problems into requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria
  • Design and build agentic systems including retrieval, tool/MCP integration, orchestration, evaluation, and observability
  • Own components from prototype through production rollout and post-launch iteration

What you’ll bring

  • 2+ years of professional experience shipping production software with AI-enabled applications
  • Full-stack engineering capability across data, services, UIs, and infrastructure
  • Working knowledge of cloud providers, containers, IaC, CI/CD, and production monitoring
  • Comfort working directly with external clients

Technologies

AI agents · MCP · retrieval · orchestration · evaluation harnesses · observability · full-stack · cloud · containers · CI/CD

About Juniper Square

Connected operating system for private markets GPs spanning fundraising, onboarding, investor reporting, fund administration, treasury, and AI-native investor-relations workflows.

Series D · 500–1000 people

Source and classification

Production engineering · Evidence for this classification:

York City, Mumbai and Bangalore for employees who prefer to work in an office some or all of the time. About Applied AI Applied AI is Juniper Square’s forward-deployed engineering unit. We design, build, and manage custom AI agents that solve hard operational problems for private markets GPs — running on Juniper Square’s AI infrastructure and integrated with the systems our clients already use. Because we sit on the system of record for the category, we can ship in weeks what otherwise takes years. About your role We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with GP clients alongside a senior engineer who leads the engagement, contributing across the full delivery lifecycle — discovery, scoping, design, build, deployment, and the ongoing operation of what you ship. You are in the room with the client, not behind a ticket queue. This is an AI-first engineering role. The
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About Juniper Square Private markets are one of the largest, most complex, and most underserved corners of global finance. Our mission at Juniper Square is to unlock their full potential. We’re the Operations Partner trusted by 2,300+ GPs, unifying technology, data, and fund administration services into a single platform that helps GPs move faster, make better decisions, and scale with precision. With $300B+ under administration and 700,000+ LPs on platform, we’ve built the scale to match our ambition. And with JunieAI, our purpose-built AI platform, we’re reimagining how private markets operate, embedding intelligence across every workflow. Founder-led since 2014, backed by $350M+ in funding, and now 1,000+ employees strong, we’re building a company designed to shape the future of private markets for decades to come. Our culture is built for people who want to do ambitious, meaningful work alongside exceptionally talented teammates. We think like owners, move with urgency, and take pride in solving hard problems that truly matter to our customers and the future of private markets. We believe the best ideas come from open debate, deep collaboration, and diverse perspectives, which is why we believe transparency is the default and feedback makes us stronger. If you’re energized by high standards, rapid growth, and the opportunity to help define a category at a pivotal moment, [... source excerpt omitted ...] build, and manage custom AI agents that solve hard operational problems for private markets GPs — running on Juniper Square’s AI infrastructure and integrated with the systems our clients already use. Because we sit on the system of record for the category, we can ship in weeks what otherwise takes years. About your role We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with GP clients alongside a senior engineer who leads the engagement, contributing across the full delivery lifecycle — discovery, scoping, design, build, deployment, and the ongoing operation of what you ship. You are in the room with the client, not behind a ticket queue. This is an AI-first enginee [... source excerpt omitted ...] omeone who can own their piece of the work independently while being supported by a world-class team of engineers. Working from the priorities set with the engagement lead and the client, you will contribute to discovery, help define requirements, and make the trade-offs that get working software into users’ hands quickly. Success is measured by adoption and impact. You own what you build through launch and beyond, iterating on real user feedback and contributing the patterns you develop back to Applied AI’s reusable component library. This role is built to grow into leading engagements of your own. What you’ll do Work with GP clients — CFOs, COOs, heads of technology, inves

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