Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Penguin Random House is a leading publishing house committed to quality, innovation, and digital transformation. The company is seeking a Junior AI Engineer to build practical AI tools, automations, applications, and language model workflows that support marketing, research, and internal business operations. The role involves developing Python-based services, evaluating system performance, and collaborating with technical and non-technical teams.
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
Benefits
- All positions are currently eligible for an 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
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