64524-1 – Research Assistant

Career Moves Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in London seeks a Research Assistant to prototype and test AI agents. Applicants should have a Bachelor's in Computer Science and at least 2 years of relevant experience in machine learning. You will create test prompts and implement AI agent tool calls. This hybrid role offers a competitive rate of £42.79 per hour, requiring three days onsite each week.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in prototyping and testing AI agents.
• Research or prototyping experience in machine learning or deep learning.
• Hands-on experience with AI frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Create test prompts for AI agent and experiment with formulations.
• Implement and debug AI agent tool calls in a Python/PHP stack.
• Assemble prompts for internal benchmarks for AI agents.

Skills

Python-programming

Generative AI

Understanding of MCP servers/LangChain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Python

AI agent frameworks

LangChain

Job description

Research Assistant – 64524-1

Location: London, Kings Cross
Length: Asap – December 2025
Rate: £42.79 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 40 hours per week (Hybrid, 3 days onsite)

Overview:
Our client is looking for a Research assistant with 2+ years of experience prototyping and testing AI agents and/or LLM models.

Role Responsibilities:

• Create test prompts for AI agent. Experiment with different prompt formulations to steer AI Agent towards ideal behavior.
• Implement and debug AI agent tool calls in a python / PHP SW stack.
• Assemble high quality prompts to create client internal benchmarks for AI agents similar to MLEBench and BFCL.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Research or prototyping experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing.
• Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with AI agent frameworks such as Model Context Protocol.
• LangChain.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large scale software applications.
• Preferred: Direct experience in generative AI and LLM research.

Must have skills:

• Python-programming
• Generative AI
• Understanding of MCP servers/LangChain