AI Engineer (KTP Associate)

KTP

Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs) are a unique UK-wide activity that help businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity by making better use of the knowledge, technology and skills within universities, colleges and research organisations. Further information is available at: www.ktponline.org.uk

THE PROJECT

The University of Essex in partnership with Bowen Craggs offers an exciting opportunity to the successful candidate to apply generative AI capabilities for the design of a bespoke, automated benchmarking tool based on a unique methodology, for online corporate communications measurement.

This post is fixed term for 30 months and is based at Bowen Craggs offices in Central London. 

DUTIES OF THE POST

The duties of the post will include:

• Delivering a customised automated scoring system, with inputs from various sources (including automated web scraping systems) based on explainable AI.
• Developing a bespoke Generative AI system to address any additional security, IP, or privacy concerns. Retrieval-Augmented Generation generative AI techniques will be utilised, based on Open-Source LLMs.
• Delivering a unique AI decision system, which will use fused data to generate reports, analytics tools, and create workflows to automate the web content scoring process.
• Acting as project lead, to progress the project and ensure milestones are met to a timely manner.
• Embedding technology, training and upskilling company staff.
• Participating in academic and/or industrial conferences and other events, to disseminate and present research outcomes to the wider community.

KEY REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications:

• BSc and MSc or Higher degree in Computer Science, AI, Electronic Engineering or Physics or similar degree or equivalent industry experience.

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to a range of audiences.
• Ability to manage expectations in a multi-partner project.
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• An understanding of the need to balance academic and commercial outputs.

Experience/Knowledge:

• Experience of computer programming in Java and Python.
• Experience in front and back-end programming activities.
• Deep knowledge and experience of deep learning, computational intelligence, generative AI.
• Explainable AI knowledge.
• Experience in Information Fusion.
• Experience in Natural Language Processing.
• Commercial data science experience [Desirable].
• Knowledge of, or an interest in, corporate communications [Desirable].

BENEFITS
As a KTP Associate, the post will offer the following benefits:

• A personal development budget of £5,000 (exclusive of salary), and a travel & subsistence and consumables budgets of just over £5,000.
• Management training and mentoring by an Innovate UK KTP Adviser.
• An interesting and challenging role, with exposure to a variety of stakeholders.
• Full access to university resources to complete the project.
• World-leading Academic and Company project supervision, with project support by a dedicated, sector leading KTP Office.

LOCATION
Bowen Craggs & Co Limited,

60 Gray's Inn Road,

London,

WC1X 8LU

Please note this is a hybrid role: 2-3 days per week in office; 2-3 days per week remote.

Please use the 'Apply' button to read further information about this role including the full job description and person specification which outlines the full duties, skills, qualifications and experience needed for this role. You will also find details of how to make your application here.

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