Jeenie is seeking an innovative and passionate AI Researcher to join our growing AI Innovation Team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and is eager to help shape the future of our AI platform.

In this role, you will be responsible for researching and evaluating a wide range of AI models both open-source and proprietary, rapidly prototyping solutions, testing hypotheses, and validating new ideas. Experience in model and agentic development is essential, as you'll play a critical role in advancing and optimizing both internal tools and user-facing AI experiences.

As a core member of the AI Innovation Team, you’ll collaborate closely with stakeholders across the company to design and prototype cutting-edge AI solutions that align with Jeenie’s mission and fuel our growth.

ABOUT SUCCESS IN THE POSITION
Some of the main initiatives you’ll be part of:

• Playing an active and strategic role in researching, prototyping, and shaping core AI services

• Developing product requirements, and turning them into technical specifications 

• Developing training data requirements, and turning them into technical specifications 

• Help lead the charge for informing and implementing best practices around AI testing, implementation, and documentation

ABOUT YOU
Here’s what we believe our best applicants bring with them into the role:

• Deep knowledge of LLMs, transformers, and diffusion models.

• Broad knowledge of other machine learning techniques used in natural language processing.

• Experience with open-source model evaluation (e.g., Hugging Face, OpenLLM, OpenChatKit).

• Ability to read academic papers and turn them into prototypes.

• Comfort with scaling from notebook experiments to small production tests.

• Experience implementing and maintaining model evaluation criteria and benchmarks.

• Solid understanding of model training data development and best practices.

• Knows what trade-offs matter in model selection (e.g., performance vs. cost vs. latency).

• Able to bridge the gap between academic insight and practical implementation.

• A passion for research driven work, experimentation, and rapid prototyping AI models and agents in a fast paced environment.

ABOUT Jeenie

Jeenie is a virtual interpreting platform that connects users to a video or audio call with live, qualified interpreters for on-demand language assistance. Our global community of interpreters, located in over 140 countries, is available to help clients 24/7 in over 300 languages. Clients access Jeenie from any smartphone, tablet or computer, as well as through third-party integrations with platforms such as Zoom.

We believe language is a Basic Human Right. We’re on a mission to eliminate language barriers and ensure equitable access in healthcare, education, refugee and immigration support, legal services, and government, as well as facilitate business and social conversations.

Join Our Team!  As an innovative, young tech company, we are in an exceptional position to expand our peer-to-peer marketplace platform into a market leader, and disrupt a $60 billion industry. We are hiring vibrant and intellectually curious people who want to help us achieve our mission, grow professionally, and be part of a supportive and dynamic team!

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.