Senior Creative Technologist (AI Creative Lab)

Job Details

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE: 12 Month FTC / Attachment

DEPARTMENT: BBC Studios AI Creative Lab

LOCATION: London

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £65,000 - £80,000 (including London weighting). Salary dependent on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

What We Are

A globally renowned media company borne of the BBC. We make and distribute the world's most sought after TV, audio and digital content. Our ambition is to be the home of the most powerful, entertaining, and inspiring stories for people all around the world.

Purpose of the Role

The AI Creative Lab within BBC Studios Global Content is an initiative designed to supercharge innovation across our global content portfolio. Supporting Scripted, Unscripted, Global Productions, Audio, and Kids & Family, the Lab will shape bespoke creative solutions while responsibly and adventurously embracing rapidly emerging technologies.

Reporting to the Head of AI Creative Lab, you will bring technical and creative expertise to lead the development of new AI/ML integrations and future focused creative and production workflows. Working with genre leads and production teams, you will help identify challenges and design bespoke AI (and any other necessary emerging technology) solutions and workflows, ensuring we are at the forefront of responsibly and effectively supporting and delivering outstanding storytelling.

Why Join the Team?

This is an exciting opportunity to join BBC Studios at a time when cutting edge technology meets world class storytelling. With the energy and ambition of a startup inside a global powerhouse, the Lab offers the chance to work at the forefront of next generation content production.

Working across some of the UK's most loved shows and brands, you will share a deep, expert knowledge of AI and emerging machine led technologies. You will inspire leaders and teams to boldly and responsibly experiment with AI, and develop practical, creative solutions which help us set the standard for responsible, ambitious, principled use of AI.

Your Key Responsibilities and Impact

• Lead the development, testing and evaluation of cutting edge AI/ML tools, services, models, and workflows to enable or enhance content creation across television, audio, film, social, and immersive formats
• Partner with the Head of the Lab, and Genre leads to identify challenges and create a roadmap for solutions
• Deliver AI/ML solutions through hands on rapid application of R&D and assembly of market and vendor tools and services, to rapidly prototype creative technology solutions at production quality; smartly delegating duties to more junior members of staff to continually ensure rapid delivery
• To be responsible for data management and governance around responsible use of AI/ML within creative environments
• Translate creative challenges into technical solutions, communicating options and constraints clearly and regularly; continuously research emerging tools, services and methods to keep BBC Studios at the forefront of AI driven creative innovation

Your Skills and Experience

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Extensive experience applying AI/ML within media production, VFX, gaming, animation, or similar technology driven creative environments, with a strong understanding of how these technologies support real world creative workflows; experience/knowledge of markerless mocap and virtual production required
• Advanced technical capability across Python, PyTorch, Hugging Face, n8n, fal or similar, AWS, Claude Code, Gemini, ChatGPT, Node, React, and similar frameworks, combined with the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly
• Experience of working in a senior engineering or creative technologist capacity, with ownership of workflows and responsibility for motivating others and delivering bespoke AI/ML solutions against tight deadlines and high creative ambition
• Experience of working in an environment which is subject to constant and last minute change. Evidence of a resilient and positive approach to creative problem solving
• Demonstrated hands on prototyping ability, with a track record of rapidly building functional, artist friendly tools suitable for live production, using iterative or agile approaches
• Practical experience using AI/ML for content generation, animation, motion, compositing, including model evaluation, fine tuning, data preparation, and orchestration, benchmarking and combining models and services effectively

If you can bring some of these skills and experience, along with transferable strengths, we'd love to hear from you and encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

Redeployment

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Life at BBC Studios

• A flexible 35 hour working week with 26 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and the option to buy an extra five days.
• Defined pension (up to 10% employer contributions).
• Caring and parenting support, 24/7 remote GP access, life assurance and accident benefit.
• BBC Studios is a world leader in operating sustainably both on and off screen. Find out more about BBC Group's science based Net Zero targets here.
• Career development in a values led purpose driven culture.

You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss: