Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
AI summary of the role
Forward-deployed AI engineer role within Juniper Square's Applied AI unit, working directly with private markets GP clients to design, build, and operate custom AI agents.
What you’ll do
- Work directly with GP clients to identify workflows where custom AI agents create leverage
- Run discovery and translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements and scope
- Design and build agentic systems including retrieval, tool/MCP integration, orchestration, and evaluation
- Own deployed solutions through adoption, including post-launch support and iteration
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years shipping production software end to end with AI-enabled applications
- Track record of owning delivery and being accountable for shipped and used software
- Full-stack engineering across data, services, UIs, and infrastructure
- Hands-on infrastructure ownership on a major cloud provider (containers, IaC, CI/CD, monitoring)
Technologies
AI agents · MCP · retrieval · orchestration · containers · infrastructure as code · CI/CD · production monitoring · full-stack · cloud
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 and own delivery end-to-end — 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 solutions you build are powered by modern AI, and you will work at 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 and own delivery end-to-end — 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 solutions you build are powered by modern AI, and you will [... source excerpt omitted ...] k engineering, and calls for someone who can operate independently, when needed, while being supported by a world-class team of engineers. Working from the priorities set with the client and Applied AI leadership, you will run discovery, define requirements, sequence delivery, 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. What you’ll do Work with GP clients — CFOs, COOs, heads of technology, investor relations leads, and the fund a
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