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About the Role
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.
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.
Requirements
- 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.
Skills
- Python
- AI
- Machine Learning
- LLM
- Agentic coding tools
- Claude Code
- OpenAI Codex
- Cursor
- Agentic frameworks
- LangGraph
- LangChain
- Google ADK
- OpenAI Agent SDK
- Evaluation techniques
- MLFlow
- Arize
- LangSmith
- Front-end prototyping
Location
- In person at a Penguin Random House location
Work Type
- Full-time
- In person
Experience Level
- Junior
- Internship experience
Salary/Compensations
- $110,000 - $135,000
Benefits
- 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
- Annual profit award or bonus
About the Company
- Penguin Random House is the leading adult and children's publishing house in North America, the United Kingdom and many other regions around the world.
- In publishing the best books in every genre and subject for all ages, we are committed to quality, excellence in execution, and innovation throughout the entire publishing process: editorial, design, marketing, publicity, sales, production, and distribution.
- Our vibrant and diverse international community of nearly 300 publishing brands and imprints include Ballantine Bantam Dell, Berkley, Clarkson Potter, Crown, DK, Doubleday, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, Little Golden Books, Knopf, Modern Library, Pantheon, Penguin Books, Penguin Press, Penguin Random House Audio, Penguin Young Readers, Portfolio, Puffin, Putnam, Random House, Random House Children's Books, Riverhead, Ten Speed Press, Viking, and Vintage, among others.
- More information can be found at http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
- 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.