Forward Deployed AI Engineer

About US

Juna AI is revolutionizing heavy industries by leveraging AIenabled autonomous agents to decarbonize and optimize industrial processes. Our mission is to transform complex manufacturing facilities into intelligent selflearning systems that operate autonomously delivering significant improvements in plant performance and sustainability. Our AIbased control system learns from sensor data to control complex processes in real time across industries like chemical steel paper cement and textile.

Why Us

Junas founders Matthias Auf Der Mauer and Christian Hardenberg are 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. They have led engineering teams of up to 2500 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 make a significant impact on the future of industrial automation.

Tasks

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 datadriven solutions. In this role youll apply your problemsolving abilities creativity and technical skills to help organizations leverage their data to make a real impact in the world. Youll have the opportunity to gain rare insights into some of the most important industries and institutions globally contributing to transformative projects.

Core Responsibilities

• Own HighStakes Projects: Work in small teams to deliver critical projects for clients taking full ownership from conception to deployment.
• Build LargeScale 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 RealWorld Solutions: Drive significant impact by deploying solutions within our partners organizations making a tangible difference in their operations.
• Handson Prototyping: Implement rapid prototypes for experimental features
• Strategic DecisionMaking: With minimal oversight youll proactively identify the highest priority tasks and drive them to completion. Your decisions will shape the direction of our product development.

Requirements

Tech Excellence

• Engineering Background: Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science Mathematics Software Engineering Physics or Machine Learning.
• Strong ML Foundation: Solid foundation in machine learning fundamentals including evaluation training and problem decomposition.
• AI Expertise: Past experience building solutions with AI and a deep understanding of the machine learning and reinforcement learning landscape.
• Programming Proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency in programming languages like Python C TypeScript/JavaScript or similar.
• Data: Comfortable working with largescale or messy data and iterating quickly
• Bonus: Experience with reinforcement learning control systems or realtime AI agents

Personal

• Analytical selfdirected and thrives in fastpaced dynamic environments
• Ownership impact and customer driven
• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites when needed

Benefits

• 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 Culture: A commitment to equal rights mutual respect and the promotion of diversity in our workplace.

We operate on the factory floor not in slide decks. At Juna youll solve highstakes problems in the real world chemical plants paper lines steel mills and cut emissions of the biggest polluting industries in the world. We move fast work facetoface and care about outcomes and solving customer problems. Juna is the place where youll experience the most impactful and productive time of your career.