R&D AI Prototyper & Tools Engineer

VERVE; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cutting-edge AI tools

Ambitious global team

Autonomy to experiment

Collaborative environment

Job summary

Verve is seeking a hands-on Technical AI Developer in our R&D Lab to rapidly prototype, test emerging technologies and build the technical foundations of new Vero tools.

Work with product and R&D to translate experiments into production-ready solutions, focusing on feasibility, scalability and practical impact for clients. A CS degree is preferred; experience with LLMs, APIs, and modern AI tooling is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Practical experience building with LLMs and APIs.
• Knowledge of AI concepts and infrastructure including prompt engineering, RAG, MCP, vector embeddings and agentic pipelines.
• Evidence that you’ve built and experimented with AI applications, not just worked alongside teams that have.
• A practical problem-solving mindset — you like making things, testing them and figuring out why they don’t work.
• Comfortable experimenting with emerging technologies where there may not yet be a clear playbook.
• Able to balance speed of experimentation with building solutions that can ultimately scale.
• Comfortable working collaboratively with product and other non-technical colleagues.
• Able to explain technical decisions and complexity clearly.
• A growth mindset — you’re comfortable with ambiguity, take initiative and thrive in fast-moving, entrepreneurial environments.
• A Computer Science degree or similar is preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly prototype new AI-enabled Vero tools, features and processes.
• Build and test solutions using Python, APIs, LLMs and emerging AI technologies.
• Develop and experiment with RAG, vector embeddings, MCP and agentic pipelines.
• Explore new technologies and assess where they can solve real user and business problems.
• Run fast, lightweight technical experiments to test feasibility and value.
• Build integrations between AI models, data sources and other services.
• Test, debug and refine prototypes based on real-world use.
• Improve the technical performance and capability of existing Vero tools and workflows.
• Work with product and R&D colleagues to translate successful prototypes into production-ready solutions.
• Bring technical judgement to decisions around feasibility, scalability and how things should be built.

Skills

LLMs

APIs

Prompt engineering

RAG

Vector embeddings

Agentic pipelines

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

Python

Lovable

React

TypeScript

Job description

Verve is seeking a hands-on Technical AI Developer in our R&D Lab to rapidly prototype, test emerging technologies and build the technical foundations of new Vero tools.

Work with product and R&D to translate experiments into production-ready solutions, focusing on feasibility, scalability and practical impact for clients. A CS degree is preferred; experience with LLMs, APIs, and modern AI tooling is highly valued.