Senior AI Engineer

Senior AI Engineer London (Hybrid) Competitive salary between £110,000 and £120,000 plus benefits

This is a rare chance to join a newly formed AI Lab at an early stage, where you will help shape how generative AI is applied to high quality, content rich products. You will work close to design, product and editorial partners, shipping zero to one AI systems that directly influence real user experiences.

The Company

They are a recognised organisation known for intellectual rigour, independence and innovation. Operating across media, education and enterprise insight, they reach audiences in over 170 countries. The business is investing in advanced AI capabilities to explore new ways of delivering trusted information while maintaining the highest editorial standards. A dedicated AI Lab has been created to push beyond the existing roadmap and experiment with what is next.

The Role

As a Senior AI Engineer, you will be a core technical contributor within the AI Lab, focusing on building and refining LLM powered systems.

• Build, fine tune and evaluate LLM based systems with a strong focus on editorial tone and style alignment
• Design and manage datasets for fine tuning, including annotation and versioning workflows
• Develop and test retrieval augmented generation pipelines using structured content
• Prototype text to speech and audio generation pipelines for audio first experiences
• Collaborate closely with product, design and engineering partners to ship internal tools and demos
• Work directly with editorial stakeholders to define meaningful evaluation criteria for AI generated content

Your Skills and Experience

• Strong commercial experience building LLM or NLP pipelines in production or advanced prototype environments
• Hands on experience with fine tuning approaches such as supervised fine tuning, prompt or instruction tuning
• Strong Python skills and experience with modern LLM tooling and data pipelines
• Confidence defining and tracking generation quality using both quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods
• Exposure to speech to text or text to speech tools for prototyping audio experiences
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and collaborating with non technical stakeholders

What They Offer

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working with 3 days per week in a London office
• Strong pension, private healthcare and wellbeing support
• Flexible working benefits including work from anywhere options

How to Apply

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