Your mission About the Role As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer (FDE) at Juna AI, you will work directly with customers to quickly understand their most pressing problems and design innovative, data-driven solutions. In this role, you'll apply your problem-solving abilities, creativity, and technical skills to help organizations leverage their data to make a real impact in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain rare insights into some of the most important industries and institutions globally, contributing to transformative projects. Core Responsibilities Your responsibilities as a Forward Deployed AI Engineer: Own High-Stakes Projects: Work in small teams to deliver critical projects for clients, taking full ownership from conception to deployment. Build Large-Scale AI Workflows: Develop and implement AI workflows that operate on a large scale, addressing complex industrial challenges. Collaborate with Customers: Interact directly with clients to understand their needs, and ensure our solutions meet their goals. Implement Real-World Solutions: Drive significant impact by deploying solutions within our partners' organizations, making a tangible difference in their operations. Hands-on Prototyping: Implement rapid prototypes for experimental features Strategic Decision-Making: With minimal oversight, you'll proactively identify the highest priority tasks and drive them to completion. Your decisions will shape the direction of our product development. Collaborative Culture: We foster a results-oriented environment where speed, efficiency, and intensity drive our daily work. We prioritize ownership, autonomy, and teamwork without hierarchy, working together to achieve our goals. Your profile What We Value Analytical Mindset: A highly analytical approach and eagerness to solve technical problems in AI, data processing, and advanced analytics. Experience with Large-Scale Data: Experience or curiosity about working with large-scale data to tackle valuable business challenges. Real-World Impact: A focus on solving real business problems, not just academic benchmarks. Adaptability: Comfort working in a dynamic environment with evolving objectives and direct interaction with users. Collaborative Skills: Ability to collaborate efficiently with both technical and non-technical team members, thriving in environments with changing goals and user feedback. Self-Direction: Our flat-structured environment requires someone who can identify a problem, prioritize tasks, and solve issues independently without needing constant guidance. What We Require AI Expertise: Past experience building solutions with AI and a deep understanding of the machine learning and reinforcement learning landscape. Strong ML Foundation: Solid foundation in machine learning fundamentals, including evaluation, training, and problem decomposition. Engineering Background: Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, or Machine Learning. Programming Proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages like Python, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or similar. Flexibility to Travel: Ability and interest in traveling up to 25% of the time to client sites, with flexibility based on personal preferences. Why us? What We Offer Impactful Work: An opportunity to shape the future of manufacturing by contributing to groundbreaking AI technologies that decarbonize heavy industries. Ownership: Equity participation, allowing you to share in our success as we grow. Collaborative Environment: Work closely with experienced AI manufacturing tech founders and a team of leading researchers, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Professional Growth: Contribute your knowledge to drive our vision forward, with ample opportunities for learning and development. Inclusive Culture: A commitment to equal rights, mutual respect, and the promotion of diversity in our workplace. Life at Juna AI At Juna AI, we are more than just a tech company—we are a team committed to making a real-world impact on sustainability. By contributing to solutions that decarbonize heavy industries, your work will directly enhance the efficiency and reduce the carbon footprint of manufacturing processes worldwide. We bring AI to the real world, applying cutting-edge technologies in dynamic industrial settings—often hot, steamy, and always fascinating. You'll tackle diverse, tangible challenges across various manufacturing environments, from steel mills to textile plants. Our collaborative and high-performance culture is centered on getting things done. We thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where speed and intensity drive our daily work. Operating with a flat organizational structure, we ensure that everyone’s voice is heard and valued equally, without hierarchy. We believe that the most effective teams collaborate face-to-face, fostering in-person connections that drive unparalleled productivity. Juna is a place where you’ll experience the most impactful and productive time of your career, with continuous opportunities to learn, grow, and challenge yourself. About us Juna AI is revolutionizing heavy industries by leveraging AI-enabled autonomous agents to decarbonize and optimize industrial processes. Our mission is to transform complex manufacturing facilities into intelligent, self-learning systems that operate autonomously, delivering significant improvements in plant performance and sustainability. Our AI-based control system learns from sensor data to control complex processes in real time across industries like chemical, steel, paper, cement, and textile. Our founding team at Juna AI consists of serial entrepreneurs with a proven track record of founding successful startups, developing advanced AI and IoT applications, and scaling technology solutions globally for over 100 million users. We have led engineering teams of up to 2,500 engineers, launched more than 50 internet companies, and introduced transformative AI technologies to the manufacturing sector. Backed by extraordinary investors like Kleiner Perkins and Norrsken VC—the same backers behind companies like Google, Amazon, and Twitter—we are poised to significantly impact the future of industrial automation.