Junior AI Engineer

AJAIA•New York, NY

3h•$10,000 - $10,000•Remote

About The Position

As a Junior AI Engineer at Ajaia, you will build and ship AI-enabled software across client engagements and internal products, working alongside senior engineers who review your work and support your growth. You will take on clearly scoped tasks, ask questions, and deliver working code across web interfaces, backend services, LLM integrations, and AI-driven workflows. Over time, you will take on larger pieces of work with less guidance. This is an individual contributor role for an early-career engineer seeking production experience in applied AI. Ajaia is an AI consultancy and product studio that helps organizations move from experimentation to real results. Its work spans AI strategy and advisory, AI engineering and automation, workforce training and enablement, and custom product development. Ajaia also develops proprietary AI products, copilots, and vertical solutions. The company's approach combines technical execution and change management to help enterprises deploy secure, compliant solutions and integrate AI into important workflows. Every role at Ajaia is AI-forward. Engineers are expected to use AI tools daily for research, implementation, debugging, testing, and documentation; AI use is considered a core execution capability. This is a fully remote role within approved hiring locations, subject to Ajaia's hiring and compliance requirements. The schedule follows Eastern Time, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET, including holidays.

Requirements

0–2 years of professional experience, or a strong portfolio of shipped projects; internships, freelance, open source, and personal projects count.
Working knowledge of a modern frontend framework such as React or Next.js and a backend language such as Python or Node.js.
Basic understanding of REST APIs, SQL databases, and authentication.
Some hands-on experience calling a large language model API, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini, in a project.
Comfortable using Git and GitHub for daily collaboration.
Clear written and spoken English for communicating 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 without review.
Eagerness to learn, take feedback, and improve quickly.
Reliable wired internet connection with at least 100 Mbps speed.
Computer or laptop with an Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 processor or higher.
At least 8 GB RAM and 128 GB available storage.
Windows 10 or the latest version of macOS.
1080p webcam and working microphone.
Backup solutions for power and internet interruptions.

Nice To Haves

A project using retrieval (RAG), embeddings, or a simple AI agent.
Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Dual-monitor setup.

Responsibilities

Build and fix frontend and backend features for AI-enabled applications under the guidance of senior engineers.
Help integrate large language model APIs, prompts, and simple AI workflows into products.
Write clean, tested code and participate in code reviews, giving and receiving feedback.
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.