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 a role where your work shapes the future of insurance. At Ageas/esure, we're building on an exciting foundation of 20 live AI use cases already empowering over 900 frontline colleagues — and we’re just getting started!
As a Junior AI Engineer, you’ll step into a rapidly growing team where you'll help build and scale the next generation of AI-driven solutions across our business. You’ll work hands‑on with real AI products already used by hundreds of colleagues, gaining exposure to cutting‑edge tools, cloud technologies and real-world deployment. If you're curious, 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:
1. Deliver end‑to‑end AI projects with support from senior engineers, from scoping and R&D to production and measuring impact.
2. Work within the Data Science & AI team to help deploy scalable, innovative AI solutions across the business.
3. Collaborate with a cross‑functional squad — DevOps, data engineers, developers, testers and Infosec — to productionise AI services in AWS.
4. Build proficiency in esure’s tech stack, including MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, UI tools and our AI Python library.
5. Develop prompts, fine-tune open-source base-models and track results.
Skills and experience you need as a Junior AI Engineer:
6. Exposure to developing NLP models, including prompt engineering and fine‑tuning LLMs in a commercial or academic setting.
7. Able to complete tasks and projects with support from more experienced colleagues.
8. Some experience presenting technical findings to non‑technical stakeholders.
9. Proficient with the Python data science stack (pandas, scikit‑learn, Jupyter, etc.) and version control tools like Git.
10. 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 @ Ageas gives 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 Insurance Health 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- Return to work programme after maternity leave.