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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Junior AI Engineer (Open to remote) - **Company:** Penguin Random House LLC - **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Starter - **Salary:** $110,000.0 - $135,000.0 - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Build Tools, Machine Learning Operations, Automation Anywhere - **Published:** August 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/F30567441A5444289464929217130F8D/job/ ## About the Role * 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 ## Description 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. As the world's leading publishing house, Penguin Random House remains at the forefront of digital transformation, using cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to shape the future of book discovery, sales, and customer engagement. With a commitment to quality and innovation, we leverage data science to enhance our capabilities across marketing, pricing, forecasting, personalization, and more. If you love turning innovation into useful, responsible solutions, and have strong Python skills, product sense, and sound judgment, we'd love to hear from you. Specific responsibilities include: * 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., Responsible for processing the information provided in your application is the company specified in the job advertisement, with its registered office as indicated. The company processes your data for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 (1) b GDPR / Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG. The retention period for your data is determined by the statutory time limits applicable in the respective country, beginning upon completion of the recruitment process. You can find these here (https://bertelsmann-hr.de/docs/Overview_of_Data_Retention_Periods_EN.pdf) . You can contact the company's Data Protection Officer at the above-mentioned postal address. Further information on data protection and your rights can be found here (https://jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/content/Privacy-Policy/?locale=en_US) . We value the array of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Disclosure requirements pertaining to the collection of your personal data: Responsible for processing the information provided in your application is the company specified in the job advertisement, with its registered office as indicated. The company processes your data for the purpose of establishing an employment relationship on the basis of Art. 6 (1) b GDPR / Section 26 (1) sentence 1 BDSG. The retention period for your data is determined by the statutory time limits applicable in the respective country, beginning upon completion of the recruitment process. 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