The Junior Prompt Engineer will support our advisory team by using large language models to refine financial data interrogation and automate the testing of commercial assumptions. This position focuses on translating complex financial inquiries into precise instructions that generate reliable, data-backed answers for our investigative work.
About Blue Oak Consulting
Blue Oak Consulting provides independent advisory on pricing, portfolio economics, capital allocation, and acquisition assumptions. We are not a traditional consulting firm focused on broad transformation programs or high level strategy decks. Instead, we interrogate specific commercial decisions where the financial stakes are high and the existing narrative is not sufficient. Our team looks past corporate language and P&L complexity to identify where value is leaking or capital is trapped.
We work across sectors like software, manufacturing, and healthcare to test whether the assumptions behind a growth plan or an acquisition actually hold under pressure. We are a small, principal led firm where the people who do the work are the ones accountable for the results. We do not take transaction contingent fees, which allows us to be completely honest about whether the economics of a decision make sense. Our goal is to provide clarity through financial discipline and a healthy amount of skepticism. We stay through the execution phase because decisions that look sound in theory often fail when they meet real world friction.
The Role
In this fully remote role, you will work closely with our senior advisors to improve how we use artificial intelligence in our investigative process. We do not use technology for the sake of it: we use it to find the flaws in a financial case or to group thousands of data points into a coherent story. You will spend your time experimenting with different ways to query models, ensuring the outputs are accurate, and helping us build a library of prompts that can withstand the scrutiny of professional investors. Since we are a small firm, you will see exactly how your work influences the advice we give to clients while you work from your home office.
What You Will Be Doing - Developing and testing text-based instructions for language models to extract specific insights from financial reports.
- Reviewing AI-generated summaries of market trends and checking them against primary source documents for accuracy.
- Assisting with the cleaning and categorization of large datasets to prepare them for prompt-based analysis.
- Iterating on existing prompts to reduce errors and improve the quality of financial logic provided by the models.
- Documenting successful workflows and prompt structures so the rest of the team can use them effectively.
- Collaborating with senior staff to understand the core financial questions that need answering in a new project.
- Monitoring AI outputs for logical inconsistencies or errors that could misinterpret a company's financial health.
- Researching new features in AI tools that can help our firm analyze portfolio economics more efficiently.
What You Bring - A university degree in finance, economics, computer science, or a related field where logical reasoning is core.
- Strong writing skills and the ability to explain complex ideas clearly and briefly.
- Basic familiarity with how large language models work and a curiosity about their practical limits.
- Comfort using Microsoft Excel to organize data and perform basic financial calculations.
- A skeptical mindset that does not take the first answer an AI gives as the absolute truth.
- Excellent attention to detail, especially when reviewing text and numbers for small errors.
- The ability to manage your own schedule and stay productive in a fully remote work environment.
- A willingness to learn our specific approach to financial discipline and "under the hood" investigation.
What We Offer - A permanent, full-time position that is entirely remote, allowing for flexibility in where you work.
- A competitive salary that is attractive for an entry-level professional in the financial advisory sector.
- Professional development and training in advanced prompt engineering and financial modeling.
- Direct access to senior partners who will mentor you and share their expertise in portfolio economics.
- The chance to work on high-stakes commercial decisions across various global industries.
- A work culture that values accuracy and honesty over long hours and corporate theater.
- Meaningful work where your prompts directly help identify hidden financial risks for our clients.
Working at Blue Oak Consulting means being part of a team that prioritizes facts over narrative. We value the quiet work of digging through spreadsheets and refining AI instructions as much as we value the final presentation. This role is for someone who finds satisfaction in technical precision and wants to understand why certain businesses succeed while others fail. We believe that by building a strong foundation in both financial theory and new technology, our junior staff can become the logical thinkers our clients rely on.
