Forward Deployed Engineer II, Applied AI

Juniper Square

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 130,000 - 160,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Life insurance

Mental wellness coverage

Family support

Flexible time off

Paid family leave

Retirement plan

Home office stipend

Professional development stipend

Job summary

Juniper Square, the Operations Partner for private markets, is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to work directly with GP clients and a senior engineer across the full delivery lifecycle. You’ll contribute from discovery through deployment, building AI-enabled solutions in a client-facing context.

This AI-first role requires independence, strong collaboration with platform and product teams, and a focus on reusable components and rapid delivery to production.

Qualifications

2+ years of professional experience shipping production software with hands-on AI-enabled applications.
Translate ambiguous business needs into requirements and deliver working software.
Full-stack engineering across data, services, user interfaces, and the infrastructure underneath them.
Working knowledge of a major cloud provider, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production monitoring.
Comfort working directly with external clients or customers.
Fluency with AI-assisted development and ability to debug and defend what you ship.
Developing product judgment: defining scope for a first release and prioritizing.
Excellent written communication across requirements, documentation, and client updates.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with GP clients to identify workflows where custom agents provide leverage.
Support discovery and translate ambiguous problems into clear requirements and criteria.
Own components through prototype, validation, hardening, deployment, and production rollout.
Design agentic systems: retrieval, context design, integration, orchestration, and observability.
Work across client-edge solutions with Juniper Square platform and product teams.
Make engineering trade-offs prioritizing reliability, security, and maintainability.
Support adoption with post-launch iteration and user feedback.
Create documentation, train users, and aid rollout to drive adoption.

Skills

AI-enabled apps

Requirements gathering

Full-stack engineering

Cloud computing

Containers

CI/CD

Production monitoring

Client interaction

AI-assisted development

Product judgment

Technical communication

Job 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 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 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 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, investor relations leads, and the fund accountants, IR associates, and deal teams who will use what you build — to find the workflows where custom agents create real leverage
Support discovery and help translate ambiguous business problems into clear requirements, scope, and acceptance criteria
Carry the components you own through their full lifecycle, from prototype and client validation through hardening, deployment, and rollout to production
Design and build agentic systems: retrieval and context design, tool and MCP integration, orchestration, evaluation harnesses, and the observability and cost controls that keep them reliable in production
Work hands-on across client-edge solutions, and partner with Juniper Square’s platform and product engineering teams where the work touches core systems
Make engineering trade-offs that hold up under real client commitments, finding speed through reuse rather than through shortcuts on reliability, security, or maintainability
Help operate deployed solutions through adoption, including post-launch support and iteration on user feedback
Produce documentation, train users, and support rollouts to drive adoption

Qualifications

2+ years of professional experience shipping production software, with hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications
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
Working knowledge of a major cloud provider, containers, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and production monitoring, with the comfort to deploy and debug your own work
Comfort working directly with external clients or customers — you can be trusted in the room, not just behind the code
Fluency with AI-assisted development, paired with the depth to understand, debug, and defend everything you ship
Developing 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, and the ability to explain technical concepts clearly 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

Compensation

Compensation for this position includes a base salary with equity, and a variety of benefits. The U.S. base salary range for this role is $130,000-$160,000. Actual base salaries will be based on candidate-specific factors, including experience, skillset, and location, and local minimum pay requirements as applicable.

Benefits include: