Junior AI Engineer

Ageas; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Junior AI Engineer to work in a hybrid environment across locations in the UK. This role involves developing and deploying AI-driven solutions in a collaborative setting, supporting various teams. Candidates should have experience in NLP model development and proficiency in Python. The company offers flexible working hours, benefits for health and wealth, and a supportive work culture focused on employee well-being.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Minimum of 35 days holiday

Health cash plan

Competitive pension

Qualifications

• Exposure to developing NLP models, including prompt engineering.
• Able to complete tasks with support from more experienced colleagues.
• Some experience presenting technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficient with Python data science tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end AI projects from scoping to production.
• Work with Data Science team to deploy AI solutions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional squads to productionise AI services.
• Develop prompts and fine-tune open-source models.

Skills

NLP model development

Python data science stack

Version control with Git

Fine-tuning LLMs

Presenter of technical findings

Tools

Docker

MLflow

Kubernetes

FastAPI

Job description

Job Title: Junior AI Engineer
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: upto £60,000 Dependent on Experience
Location: Reigate,Manchester or Glasgow - Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: Friday 13th February

Junior AI Engineer: Step into arole where your work shapes the future of insurance. At Ageas/esure, we'rebuilding on an exciting foundation of 20 live AI use cases already empoweringover 900 frontline colleagues — and we’re just getting started!

As a JuniorAI Engineer, you’ll step into a rapidly growing team where you'll help buildand scale the next generation of AI-driven solutions across our business. You’ll work hands‑on with real AI products already used by hundreds ofcolleagues, gaining exposure to cutting‑edge tools, cloud technologies andreal-world deployment. If you'recurious, ambitious and excited to build meaningful AI that makes a difference,this is the perfect place to start your journey.

Main Responsibilities as a Junior AI Engineer:

• Deliver end‑to‑end AI projects with support from senior engineers, from scoping and R&D to production and measuring impact.
• Work within the Data Science & AI team to help deploy scalable, innovative AI solutions across the business.
• Collaborate with a cross‑functional squad — DevOps, data engineers, developers, testers and Infosec — to productionise AI services in AWS.
• Build proficiency in esure’s tech stack, including MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, UI tools and our AI Python library.
• Develop prompts, fine‑tune open‑source base-models and track results.

Skills and experience you need as a Junior AI Engineer:

• Exposure to developing NLP models, including prompt engineering and fine‑tuning LLMs in a commercial or academic setting.
• Able to complete tasks and projects with support from more experienced colleagues.
• Some experience presenting technical findings tonon‑technical stakeholders.
• Proficient with the Python data science stack (pandas, scikit‑learn, Jupyter, etc.) and version control tools like Git.
• Any exposure to LLMOps, model monitoring, CI/CD and related technologies (Docker, MLflow, Kubernetes, FastAPI, etc.).

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:

Flexible Working-

Smart Working @ Ageasgives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health-

Dental InsuranceHealth Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth-

50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work-

Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family-

Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.

Benefits for Them-

Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech-

Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around-

Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work-

Returnto work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas:

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter ,member of iCAN and GAIN .As a Disability Confident Leader ,we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience.If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role. For more information, please see Ageas Everyone .

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism.

Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about Ageas, see About Us .

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