Junior AI Engineer – Remote, Fast-Track to Production

AJAIA; New York (NY); Remote; USD 9,000 - 11,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Professional development

Paid time off

Job summary

Ajaia is hiring a Junior AI Engineer to build and ship AI-enabled software across client engagements and internal products, with guidance from senior engineers.

You will take scoped tasks, write working code for web interfaces, backend services, LLM integrations, and AI-driven workflows, growing into larger pieces of work over time.

The role is fully remote with ET hours, offering compensation, remote flexibility, professional development opportunities, and paid time off.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of professional experience or a strong portfolio of shipped projects.
• Working knowledge of a modern frontend framework such as React/Next.js and a backend language such as Python or Node.js.
• Basic understanding of REST APIs, SQL databases, and authentication.
• Hands-on experience calling a large language model API (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) in a project.
• Comfortable with Git and GitHub for daily collaboration.
• Clear written and spoken English with technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Active daily use of AI tools for coding, debugging, and learning.
• Ability to check AI-generated code for correctness rather than accepting it as-is.
• Eagerness to learn, take feedback, and improve quickly.

Responsibilities

• Build and fix frontend and backend features for AI-enabled applications under guidance.
• Help integrate large language model APIs, prompts, and simple AI workflows into products.
• Write clean, tested code and participate in code reviews.
• Work with APIs, databases, and cloud deployments on well-defined tasks.
• Use AI tools daily for coding support, debugging, research, test generation, and documentation.
• Ask clarifying questions early and raise blockers quickly.
• Keep documentation, tickets, and status updates current.
• Learn the team's engineering patterns and apply them consistently.

Skills

React/Next.js

Python/Node.js

REST APIs

SQL databases

Git/GitHub

English fluency

AI tooling

Job description

Ajaia is hiring a Junior AI Engineer to build and ship AI-enabled software across client engagements and internal products, with guidance from senior engineers.

You will take scoped tasks, write working code for web interfaces, backend services, LLM integrations, and AI-driven workflows, growing into larger pieces of work over time.

The role is fully remote with ET hours, offering compensation, remote flexibility, professional development opportunities, and paid time off.