AI Engineer

Our mission is to deliver exceptional public service communication that makes a difference.

People work in government communications because what we do matters. We explain the objectives and policies of the government of the day. We provide clarity and reassurance to the public at times of crisis. We support businesses to grow. We protect our environment. We help those in need to access support.

It's an exciting time to join Government Communications. The launch of the Government Communications Innovating with Impact Strategy in 2024 set our vision to harness the rapid technological changes in AI and communications for the public good, whilst developing our talent with unparalleled opportunities for learning and development. All whilst carrying out interesting, meaningful and purposeful work.

Key to our work is collaborating across boundaries and taking a genuinely diverse and inclusive approach; communicating with and being representative of our audiences in all four corners of the UK.

The Applied Data & Insight team (ADI) within the Cabinet Office sits at the centre of the Government Communications profession and is formed from a group of multidisciplinary experts with backgrounds in Digital, Data Science, Software Development, Insight & Evaluation, Behavioural Science and Communications. We work closely together and with other teams across Government Communications to deliver impactful and innovative data-driven solutions and digital products for 6500 Civil Servants across more than 300 public sector organisations.

It is an exciting time to join ADI as we further develop our award winning AI tool, Assist, against an exciting roadmap that harnesses growing concepts such as agentic workflows and synthetic audience capabilities. We need enthusiastic and driven colleagues to join us as we continue to build innovative AI products that deliver real impact for the public., We are looking for a skilled and energetic AI Engineer to help deliver and scale our portfolio of Generative AI technologies that enable government communicators to better understand and reach their audiences. This will include Assist, the world's first AI tool for public sector communications that is currently being used more than 18,000 times per week across the Civil Service.

As an AI Engineer in the Cabinet Office you will play a vital role in realising the benefits of AI for Government Communications, in line with our commitment to AI-enabled innovation in our published 2024 Innovating with Impact Strategy and the Government AI Opportunities Plan. You will maintain and iteratively develop our Assist and Smart Targets products, in addition to building further cutting-edge AI capabilities as we leverage the potential of AI throughout our profession to maximise the impact of cross-government communications.

You will work with Product Managers, Software Developers, User Researchers, Behavioural Scientists and Insight experts to maintain and champion our holistic approach to AI that embodies the highest data ethics and privacy standards in the implementation of AI solutions for Government Communications.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Developing improvements to the existing Assist and Smart Targets products, following an existing roadmap focusing on improved data ingestion, UI updates (supported by Fullstack Developer) and agentic opportunities.
• Helping to practically maintain and iterate a web API using FastAPI and hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Helping design, develop and deliver new capabilities focusing on using conversational AI to better leverage our existing audience data and insights.
• Contributing to technical decision making alongside colleagues, including Generative AI solutions around RAG and prompt engineering.
• Collaborating with a Product Manager and other Software Developers to ensure work is sufficiently organised and completed.
• Working across the team to ensure informed decisions are made on the application design and testing approaches.
• Contributing to the required documentation and Agile project maintenance responsibilities., We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
• Changing and Improving
• Managing a Quality Service
• Making Effective Decisions
• Working Together, A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

Any move to Cabinet Office from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

Reasonable Adjustment

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes., Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter . People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks., * UK nationals

• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Do you have experience in Software deployment?, Are you an enthusiastic and collaborative professional looking for a unique opportunity to transform how government communicates? Do you have experience in developing Generative AI-driven solutions that make organisations more efficient and effective?, * Experience in building and evaluating Large Language Model via API based applications incorporating tool usage and information retrieval.

• Experience in Python programming language.
• Experience in taking ownership of the entire feature development lifecycle (covering development and end-to-end testing through to deployment and monitoring.)

Desirable:

• Experience in administering Amazon Web Services accounts.
• Experience in agile product delivery, working within a small interdisciplinary team to deliver as a group.
• Ability to present and communicate technical solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with the following Python packages: FastAPI, Asyncio, Sqlalchemy, Pandas, Streamlit.
• A good understanding of REST APIs.
• Experience with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Bedrock, OpenSearch, RDS, VPC, WAF, EC2.
• Experience designing normalised relational database tables., If you are successful at the technical task stage you will be invited to a video interview via Google Meet. There, you will be assessed on your experience, your strengths, and the following Civil Service behaviours:
• Changing and improving
• Managing a quality service
• Making effective decisions
• Working together

Alongside your salary of £57,204, Cabinet Office contributes £16,571 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pension which provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and employer contributions of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.