Junior AI & Data Engineer for Investigative Journalism

Digital Skills ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Skills is seeking an early-career technologist to work at the intersection of journalism, data and software development in Canary Wharf. You will build practical tools to ingest, search and understand complex datasets, with exposure to AI-enabled newsroom technology and mentorship from an experienced engineering team.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, data processing and collaboration with journalists to translate editorial objectives into technical solutions.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate with practical Python knowledge and a genuine interest in AI, data and journalism.
• Ability to write clear, tested and well-documented code.
• Interest in using technology to support investigative journalism and editorial workflows.

Responsibilities

• Ingest and process large datasets and support data pipelines.
• Build tools to search data and identify entities, relationships, and connections.
• Develop LLM pipelines and MCP agents within editorial workflows.

Skills

Python

AI literacy

Data literacy

Cloud platforms

APIs

LLMs

MCP or agent systems

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Digital Skills is seeking an early-career technologist to work at the intersection of journalism, data and software development in Canary Wharf. You will build practical tools to ingest, search and understand complex datasets, with exposure to AI-enabled newsroom technology and mentorship from an experienced engineering team.

The role emphasizes hands-on coding, data processing and collaboration with journalists to translate editorial objectives into technical solutions.