Junior AI Engineer (Open to remote)

Summary

Penguin Random House’s Data Science team is hiring a Junior AI Engineer to help unlock the potential of AI and emerging technology through practical tools that improve how teams work. The role involves building tools and applications to support business needs while leveraging AI and machine learning techniques.

Responsibilities

• Build tools, automations, and applications that support internal business needs across marketing, research, and workflow optimization
• Design, test, and improve language model based workflows for tasks such as classification, summarization, extraction, generation, and search support
• Partner with teams across Marketing, Product, Data Science, and the broader business to translate needs into clear, scalable solutions
• Develop Python-based services, APIs, and internal tools that integrate AI capabilities into day-to-day workflows
• Evaluate and refine system performance for quality, speed, reliability, and cost
• Identify edge cases, improve system behavior, and contribute to best practices for applied AI development
• Stay current on the rapidly evolving AI landscape and help evaluate which tools and approaches are worth adopting

Skills

• Must have prior internship experience in software engineering, with hands-on experience building LLM-based or applied AI workflows
• Strong Python skills and a practical approach to building useful, reliable, and responsible solutions
• Familiarity with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, etc
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and translate them into effective solutions
• Comfort working across a range of projects and solving ambiguous problems
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners
• Familiarity with agentic frameworks like LangGraph/LangChain, Google ADK, OpenAI Agent SDK, etc
• Familiarity with evaluation techniques and frameworks like MLFlow, Arize, LangSmith, etc
• Familiarity with front-end prototyping

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Must have prior internship experience in software engineering, with hands-on experience building LLM-based or applied AI workflows
• Strong Python skills and a practical approach to building useful, reliable, and responsible solutions
• Familiarity with agentic coding tools like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, etc
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and translate them into effective solutions
• Comfort working across a range of projects and solving ambiguous problems
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical partners

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with agentic frameworks like LangGraph/LangChain, Google ADK, OpenAI Agent SDK, etc
• Familiarity with evaluation techniques and frameworks like MLFlow, Arize, LangSmith, etc
• Familiarity with front-end prototyping

Benefits

• Annual profit award or bonus, subject to company results
• Medical/Prescription drug insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Health Savings Account
• Pre-Tax and Roth 401(k)
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Life/AD&D Insurance
• Commuter Benefits
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Educational Assistance
• Generous paid time off