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Junior AI Engineer
Chiara Lombardi
Full-time · Junior · Denver
About the role
We want to say something clearly at the start of this posting: we are actively looking for early-career candidates, including people who are making a career change into AI, people who completed a bootcamp or self-taught programme, and people for whom this would be their first engineering role. We know that junior job postings sometimes list requirements that would make a senior engineer pause. This one won't. We build AI-assisted scheduling tools for healthcare clinics — appointment optimisation, staff scheduling under constraint, patient wait time prediction. The ML problems are real and interesting. The codebase is clean and well-tested. The team of six is friendly, communicative, and genuinely invested in helping junior engineers grow. What we need from you: the ability to write Python that other people can read, a genuine curiosity about how machine learning systems work, and the willingness to say 'I don't know how to do this yet — can you help me?' We'll take it from there.
Responsibilities
- Build and evaluate scheduling optimisation models under close senior guidance
- Clean and prepare appointment and staffing data for model training
- Write clear, tested Python code for data processing and model integration tasks
- Document your work so the team can review, reproduce, and build on it
- Participate in weekly sprint reviews and share what you've learned
Requirements
- Python — not expert, but clean. Your functions do one thing. Your variable names mean something.
- Basic machine learning concepts you can explain: what training data is, what a prediction is, what overfitting means
- Familiarity with NumPy and Pandas for working with tabular data
- Any exposure to Scikit-learn, even in a personal project or course
- SQL for basic queries — SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, JOIN
- Curiosity and willingness to learn — demonstrated by anything: a project, a course completed, a problem you tried to solve
Benefits
- Genuinely welcoming first-job environment — no trick interview questions, no 'culture fit' gatekeeping
- Full remote, flexible hours
- $50,000 – $66,000 base salary
- Dedicated senior mentor for your first six months
- $500 annual learning budget — books, courses, whatever helps you grow
Job Type
Full-time
Level
Junior
Language
English
Salary Range
$50,000 – $66,000
AI Expertise
AI & Machine Learning Engineers
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