Research Assistant – AI Agents & LLM Prototyping

Job Title: Research Assistant – AI Agents & LLM Prototyping

Location: London, UK- Hybrid- 3 Days onsite

Duration: Until Dec 2025- possible extension

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Research Assistant with 2+ years of experience in prototyping and testing AI agents or large language models (LLMs). You will design test prompts, experiment with prompt engineering, and debug AI agent tool calls within a Python/PHP software stack. You’ll also help create internal benchmarks to evaluate AI agent performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and refine test prompts to guide AI agents toward desired behavior.
• Implement and troubleshoot AI agent tool calls in a Python/PHP environment.
• Develop high-quality prompts to build internal evaluation benchmarks for AI agents.
• Test AI agents to assess their ability to perform tasks such as ordering, scheduling, or cancelling meetings.
• Analyze test outcomes, identify issues, and communicate findings for continuous improvement.
• Navigate and understand the Python codebase to correlate test results with underlying code.
• Improving and testing existing AI agents.
• Identifying where agents perform well and where they fail.
• Prompt testing and tuning to optimize agent responses.
• Flagging test results as pass/fail based on expected behavior.

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 2+ years of experience in research or prototyping within machine learning, deep learning, or natural language processing.
• Proficient in Python, with the ability to understand and work with a codebase containing multiple interrelated files.
• Experience with AI agent frameworks such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and LangChain.
• Familiarity with architectural patterns of large-scale software systems.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and data analysis is a plus.
• Experience using source control systems (e.g., Git).
• Experience in generative AI and LLM research preferred.

Essential Skills:

• Python programming
• Generative AI knowledge
• Understanding of MCP servers and LangChain frameworks