We are on a quest for extraordinary individuals who are mission-driven and aspire to create a profound and positive impact in the world by addressing the skills crisis. Our dazzle of zebras is a force to be reckoned with - they possess unwavering determination, take decisive action, push boundaries with innovative ideas, and thrive in an environment that offers autonomy, trust, and accountability to deliver exceptional outcomes.

The skills crisis is a colossal challenge, one that is expected to have a greater economic impact than the COVID-19 pandemic. The shortage of skilled workers is leaving millions of positions unfilled, and this crisis has been deemed by the World Economic Forum as one of the biggest challenges of our time, second only to climate change.

The world's largest companies are transforming into skills-based organisations to survive, but most are struggling to do so without the proper tools. That's where we come in - we have built an innovative platform for workforce management that empowers companies to make skill-based decisions and thrive.

Our existing clients have already witnessed the positive impact that skill-based decision-making has on organisational performance, diversity, culture, and management insight. We have several FTSE100 customers and have recently secured £7.7 million in Series A funding.

We are now assembling the right team to help us become the leader in the multi-billion dollar skill-based workforce planning market. Our mission is clear and ambitious - we will unite 10 million people with opportunities at the world's leading employers based on skills by 2030. In doing so, we will be driving a quarter of all people-decisions and will be making a significant contribution towards solving the skills crisis. We'd love you to join us and make a difference that will shape the future for generations to come!

The Challenge

As a Junior AI Engineer at Spotted Zebra, you will work to deliver innovative AI-driven features that directly contribute to our mission of solving the global skills crisis. This will involve working with Large Language Models (LLMs) as well as traditional Natural Language Processing techniques to deliver accurate, reliable, and explainable solutions that address our clients' needs.

This role will allow you to holistically develop your data science skill set, including breaking down customer problems with real-world data, building preprocessing pipelines, deepening your understanding of the latest LLM architectures, and developing tools that have immediate business impact. You will work with the Lead AI Engineer to integrate these models with our existing systems, and play a critical role in making AI central to our product offerings.

Under the guidance of the Lead AI Engineer, you will navigate the complexities of optimising model performance, ensuring precision and robustness in AI outputs, and maintaining the lifecycle of AI models from development to production. Success in this role means not only developing cutting-edge AI solutions but also ensuring these solutions effectively solve our clients' problems, making AI a cornerstone of our product's value proposition. Your work will have a direct impact on improving skill based organisations, thereby helping millions of people connect with opportunities at leading employers.

The Team

As a Junior AI Engineer, you will report directly to the Lead AI Engineer. In this role, you will be aligned with a squad and collaborate closely with our Full Stack Engineers, Product Managers, and Design teams to ensure the seamless integration of AI-driven solutions into our platform. Your brief will initially reside around implementing best practices and processes around prompt engineering for leading LLMs and our own fine tuned LLMs.

Responsibilities:

Prompt Engineering: Focus on prompt engineering techniques and frameworks, gradually learning and assisting in fine-tuning models in the future
Support AI Strategy Execution: Collaborate closely with the Lead AI Engineer and support the execution of the AI strategy to ensure alignment with the company's broader objectives
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Participate in cross-functional teams including Full Stack Engineers, Product Managers, and Design teams to ensure seamless integration of AI-driven solutions into our platform, under the guidance of senior engineers
Model Deployment and Management: Take responsibility for the production deployment, lifecycle management, and performance optimisation of AI models, ensuring high standards are met
Hands-On Technical Work: Dedicate a significant proportion of time to individual contributions, focusing on the technical development and fine-tuning of AI models and generative AI prompts
Data Management: Assist in managing and curating large datasets, specifically in building gold standards for expected outputs, ensuring data quality and relevance for model training and evaluation
Stay Current with AI Research: Regularly review and incorporate the latest AI research and techniques to keep our solutions at the cutting edge of technology
Product Development: Drive the development of AI-related product features, ensuring they solve our clients' problems and add significant value to our offerings
Quality Assurance and Testing: Lead efforts in quality assurance and testing for AI components, ensuring high standards of accuracy, robustness, and reliability
Innovation and Experimentation: Contribute to innovation under the guidance of senior engineers by exploring new AI techniques and solutions to continuously improve our AI capabilities

Requirements

Technical Requirements:

Must have:
- Strong mathematical and statistical skills (e.g. STEM)
- Strong data science foundation knowledge (must be able to explain the ‘why' as much as the ‘how')
- Proficient in Python (knowledge of libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib)
- Prompt Engineering: Good understanding of prompt engineering techniques and frameworks, with a willingness to learn fine-tuning methods over time
- Large Language Models: Basic understanding of transformers and ideally some limited experience with LLM architectures for different use cases or personal experimentation (e.g., Auto regressive vs. Classification)
Nice to have:
- Ideally 1 year of industry experience
- Some experience working with Google Colab, HuggingFace, LangChain and PyTorch

Soft Skill Requirements:

Problem solving and ability to innovate
Strong communication skills, ability to influence peers and managers to follow AI based solutions
Attention to detail, particularly with quality assurance and testing
Collaboration with engineering teams (including Lead Engineer, Designer and PM)
Strong time management and project planning skills
Makes things happen, initiates action and sets direction
Analyses information, displays analytical rigour to enable comprehensive understanding
Enjoys empowerment

Benefits

Meaningful share options
25 days holiday
Remote-first working environment, with the option to use Hubble to book co-working spaces
More benefits launching very soon!

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Spotted Zebra, we welcome people of all stripes. We are committed to providing equal opportunities and an inclusive and diverse culture.

We believe that each and every one of us possesses an extraordinary set of skills and abilities, waiting to be discovered, nurtured, and harnessed for the benefit of all.

We are a team. And no matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, or disability, we will empower you to unleash your superpower to help us create a world where everyone is able to utilise their unique blend of skills and abilities to contribute to the greater good.

Everyone is unique and we encourage you to let us know in your application, or share with your recruiter directly, if there is anything we can do to make your interview experience with us more comfortable and positive.

At Spotted Zebra, everyone is welcome. So even if you don't meet all the requirements, we would still love to hear from you. We are always keen to speak with people who are passionate about our mission.

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