Engineering Research Assistant

Russell Tobin; London; Hybrid; GBP 58,947 - 73,012; Part time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Lead Recruiter in London for a hybrid 4-month contract. The role involves testing AI agents and requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Ideal candidates will have programming experience in Python and familiarity with AI frameworks. This position offers a rate of 42.79 - 53 per hour.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in prototyping and testing AI agents.
• Experience in machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing.
• Hands-on experience with AI agent frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Create test prompts for AI agents.
• Implement and debug AI agent tool calls.
• Assemble benchmarks for AI agents.

Skills

AI agent testing

Prompt engineering

Python programming

Machine learning

Deep learning

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

LangChain

Model Context Protocol

Job description

Overview

Lead Recruiter at Russell Tobin UK/Ireland/Netherlands

Contract

4 months contract / Hybrid 3 days in office / London / Rate Paye Inside IR 35 42.79 - 53 per hour

Role

Research assistant with 2+ years of experience prototyping and testing AI agents and/or LLM models.

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 Meta 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.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Research and Engineering

Industries

• Software Development