Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer in Juniper Square's Applied AI unit, working directly with private markets GP clients to discover, scope, build, deploy, and operate custom AI agents end to end. Combines product management with full-stack engineering on agentic systems — retrieval, MCP/tool integration, orchestration, evaluation, and cloud infrastructure.
- Compensation
- $165K–$200K / yr
- Location
- USA
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years of professional experience shipping production software end to end, with hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications
- Track record of owning delivery, not just implementation — accountable for whether something shipped and got used
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business needs into requirements and deliver working software against them
- Full-stack engineering capability across data, services, user interfaces, and the infrastructure underneath them
- Hands-on infrastructure ownership: deploying and operating applications on a major cloud provider, with working knowledge of containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production monitoring
- Direct experience working with external clients or customers — scoping, delivering, and managing the relationship
- Fluency with AI-assisted development, paired with the depth to understand, debug, and defend everything you ship
- Strong product judgment: defining scope for a first release, prioritizing, and knowing when something is done
- Excellent written communication across requirements, documentation, and client-facing updates; ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Nice to have
- Experience in private markets, financial services, or another regulated, data-sensitive domain
- Familiarity with application security and data handling practices for client data under contractual and SOC 2 obligations, including multi-tenant isolation
- Experience building evaluation and regression testing for non-deterministic systems
- Consulting, professional services, or forward deployed engineering background
Full description
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, come join us!
Juniper Square offers employees a variety of ways to work, ranging from a fully remote experience to working full-time in one of our physical offices. We invest heavily in digital-first operations, allowing our teams to collaborate effectively across 27 U.S. states, 2 Canadian Provinces, India, Luxembourg, and England. We also have physical offices in San Francisco, New 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 leverage AI-assisted development makes possible — while understanding in depth every system you ship.
The work combines product management and full-stack 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.