AI Engineer

Cytora; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a high-growth InsurTech start-up as an AI Engineer, where you'll develop core LLM services that revolutionize risk evaluation in insurance. This role offers the chance to work on cutting-edge AI technology, collaborating with experts to create scalable solutions that enhance the efficiency of risk processing. You'll be part of a mission-driven team, utilizing your skills in Python and AI/ML to make a significant impact. Enjoy the flexibility of remote work within the UK or EU, and benefit from a range of perks including stock options and a generous travel budget. If you're passionate about AI and eager to solve complex challenges, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Stock options

Enhanced parental leave

Private health insurance - UK only

Choice of laptop

Flexi-working

£2000 travel budget

Company trips

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills to tackle complex AI challenges.
• Experience with AI/ML, especially LLMs and prompt engineering.

Responsibilities

• Engage with experts to define AI solutions for risk processing.
• Design and deploy domain-specific LLM tasks for Cytora services.

Skills

Problem Solving

Collaboration

Analytical Skills

AI/ML Knowledge

LLM Experience

Python Proficiency

Tools

Mypy

Asyncio

Job description

Join to apply for the AI Engineer role at Cytora.

We are a high-growth Series-B InsurTech start-up using data and machine learning to revolutionize the insurance industry. You will be joining a strong and mission-driven team, working to build a customer-facing product that fundamentally changes the way insurers evaluate risk, enabling them to move from highly manual workflows to digital risk flows.

Cytora’s Risk Stream is a serverless and cloud-native SaaS platform that automates the digitisation, evaluation and decisioning of risks for commercial insurers. Our product drastically improves the working lives of our users, enabling our customers to cover more risks, more competitively.

The Role

As an AI Engineer (LLM), you will play a critical role in developing our core Large Language Model (LLM) service.

Our LLM service underpins our Generative AI powered risk digitization platform, providing a unified interface for internal services to leverage the power of LLMs at scale, regardless of the underlying foundational model.

You will be responsible for building, deploying, and optimizing LLM-powered solutions that directly impact our customer's ability to understand and process risk in commercial insurance.

What You Will Be Doing

• Problem Solving & Collaboration:
  • Engage deeply with domain experts and product managers to understand and define key business problems within risk processing in commercial insurance that can be solved with LLMs.
  • Collaborate closely with consuming service teams to define clear, efficient, and scalable interfaces for LLM tasks.
• Development & Deployment:
  • Design, develop, test, and deploy domain-specific LLM tasks (e.g., information extraction, risk assessment, document summarization, etc.) that are readily consumable by other Cytora services.
  • Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in LLM technology and actively explore new models, techniques, and tools to enhance our capabilities e.g. Agentic AI.
• Evaluation & Optimization:
  • Develop and implement comprehensive evaluation metrics and tools to rigorously assess and iterate on the performance of LLM tasks.
  • Analyze task performance, identify areas for improvement, and implement strategies to optimize accuracy, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
• Production & Monitoring:
  • Monitor the performance of deployed LLM tasks in production, proactively identify and address issues, and ensure high reliability and accuracy.

A successful candidate will likely have:

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to address complex AI challenges.
• Collaboration: Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Enthusiasm: A passion for using AI to solve complex problems and a willingness to learn.
• Experience in and strong knowledge of using AI/ML and more particularly LLMs e.g.:
• Prompt engineering techniques
• Agentic systems
• Multiple LLM models
• Experience in using LLMs for document processing tasks would be beneficial.
• Proficiency in Python and specifically with mypy and asyncio.

Benefits:

• Stock options
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private health insurance - UK only*
• Choice of laptop
• Flexi-working
• £2000 travel budget
• Company trips

Cytora are a remote-first company. For this role, you can be based anywhere in the UK or EU provided you have fluent spoken and written English, and have the permanent right to work without requiring visa sponsorship.

Equal Opportunities:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting