AI Engineer

On behalf of the Cabinet Office, we are looking for an AI Engineer (Inside/IR35) for a 6 month contract based REMOTELY.

Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position, (and speed at which we require a postholder in situ), preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance

The Applied Data & Insight team (ADI) within the Cabinet Office sits at the centre of the Government Communications profession and are formed from a group of multidisciplinary experts from backgrounds in Digital, Data Science, Software Development, Insight & Evaluation, Behavioural Science and Communications working closely together to deliver effective data-driven solutions across government. As part of this, we provide innovative digital products for 6500 Civil Servants across more than 300 public sector organisations.

It is an exciting time to join ADI as we further develop Assist against an exciting roadmap for the year. Our vision includes harnessing emerging solutions within the Generative AI space to build capabilities around synthetic audiences and personalisation. We need enthusiastic and driven colleagues to join us as we continue to iteratively develop an industry leading product that is delivering real impact for the public.

We are looking for an AI Engineer with experience in developing LLM-based technologies to join ADI. You will work alongside other Developers, Data Scientists, User Researchers and a Product Manager to maintain and further iterate the Assist service.

This role, reporting to the Head of AI products, is designed for an enthusiastic and innovative individual who will have the opportunity to help shape and lead a cross-government AI product.
. You will need to be curious about emerging technology and AI trends, including the ability to deliver data-driven synthetic audiences for insight and research.
. You will work within an agile environment, delivering towards weekly sprints.
. You will work in Python (to build the API) with tools including FastAPI, asyncio and SQLalchemy.
. You will also manage code, testing and deployments through GitHub and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
. Helping to maintain and iterate a web API using FastAPI and hosted on Amazon Web Services
. Developing improvements to the existing product, following an existing roadmap focusing on improved data ingestion, UI updates (supported by Fullstack Developer) and potential agentic possibilities.
. Helping design, develop and deliver a new capability focusing on turning existing audience data and insights into conversational AI-powered synthetic audiences, mirroring the demographics and attitudes of their 'real world' counterparts.
. Collaborating with a Product Manager and other Software Developers to ensure work is sufficiently organised and completed.
. Working across the team to ensure informed decisions are made on the application design and testing approaches.
. Contributing to technical decision making alongside colleagues, including Generative AI solutions around RAG and prompt engineering.
. Contributing to the required documentation and Agile project maintenance responsibilities.
. Helping to design and develop incoming features around sentiment analysis, data ingestion and synthetic audience creation.

EXPERIENCE & ABILITIES:
. Must have experience in building Large Language Model based applications incorporating tool usage and information retrieval.
. Must have experience in Python programming language.
. Must have experience administering Amazon Web Services accounts.
. Must be able to take ownership of the entire feature development life cycle, ie development and testing through to deployment.
. Experience in agile product delivery, working within a small interdisciplinary team to deliver as a group.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".