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At UK Telecoms Lab (UKTL), we're seeking an AI Engineer to help build and evolve our AI capabilities. This is an exciting opportunity to work with cutting-edge open-weight AI models, develop intelligent agents, and create innovative AI solutions that support research, engineering, and business operations across the organisation.

You'll play a key role in enabling colleagues to harness the power of AI by developing reliable, secure, and scalable tools, services, and automation solutions that deliver real-world impact.

What You'll Do

As a AI engineer at UKTL you will be doing the following:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance UKTL's AI platforms, services, agents, and model-serving environments
• Manage and maintain UKTLs high-end GPU compute
• Research, evaluate, and deploy open-weight AI models for use across the organisation.
• Build and optimise AI-driven workflows, automation tools, and data pipelines.
• Troubleshoot and improve the performance, reliability, and security of AI systems and integrations.
• Collaborate with our Security Research team to support AI experimentation, model evaluation, and testing in their work.
• Contribute to the development of cyber range environments used for AI benchmarking and advancing the UK's AI cyber capabilities.
• Keep abreast of emerging AI technologies and bring innovative approaches into practical deployment.
• Champion well-documented, scalable, and maintainable solutions that support UKTL's growing AI ecosystem.

We strive to offer a great work life balance - if you are looking for full time, part time or flexible options, we will try to make this work where business possible. This will be dependent on the kind of role you do and part of the business you work in.