Junior AI Engineer

As a Junior AI Engineer at Futurice, you'll be part of our growing AI & Data team, helping build the intelligent applications and workflows that sit at the heart of our client work. This is a hands-on role where you'll learn by doing: building real demos, prototypes, and AI-powered applications alongside experienced engineers., * Develop AI-powered applications - Assist in building and deploying cloud-native machine learning and GenAI applications that solve real client problems across industries like media, retail, and automotive.

• Create end-to-end AI workflows - Work on knowledge management systems, RAG pipelines, chatbots, and agents that assist software delivery teams.
• Learn from experienced practitioners - Pair with senior AI engineers, participate in code reviews, and pick up best practices in a real-world consulting environment.
• Contribute to internal AI practices - Help shape how Futurice builds and delivers AI solutions, contributing to shared tools, frameworks, and knowledge.
• Learn how to engage with clients - We'd love for you to join client conversations, present your work and advise clients and we'll support you to get there!

Do you have experience in Python?, * Foundational Python skills - You can write clean, readable code, build things from scratch, and debug your way through problems.

• Awareness about GenAI and agentic tools - You've explored (or are excited to explore) modern AI libraries like Pinecone, HuggingFace, LangChain/LangSmith, or CrewAI, and you have some exposure to agentic architectures. Familiarity is great, real curiosity is what matters most.
• Some cloud exposure - You've touched at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP), or you're ready to learn. We'll help you get up to speed.
• Strong communication and openness to client work - You can explain your thinking clearly, in writing and in conversation. You're interested in the consulting side of things and understand the business context behind what you're building.
• Builder mindset and comfort with ambiguity - You prototype, experiment, and ship things. You enjoy figuring things out even when there isn't a clear answer, and you bring a high level of autonomy and desire to learn.
• Curiosity over ego - You approach disagreement with empathy, learn from feedback, and care more about getting it right than being right.
• Bonus - Personal projects, hackathon experience, or coursework in AI/ML. We love the use of AI, just tell us how you use it!

We aim to make the process clear, human, and respectful of your time:

• Talent screening call (30m) - with someone from our People Team to learn about you, your ambitions, and answer your questions about the role.
• Technical conversation / skills-based interview (60m) - with members of our AI team. You're choice to bring in an AI project you've built and talk us through it or we can provide you with an AI task.
• Values interview (45m) - with a cross-functional duo to explore how you work, what drives you, and how you align with our culture of care, trust, transparency, and continuous improvement.

What Futurice Offers You

We use a transparent salary model based on your skills, responsibilities, and impact. The salary band for this role is The salary band for this role is £30,000 - £40,000 depending on experience.

We also believe in care, trust, transparency, and continuous improvement. Here's what that looks like in practice:

• A supportive, values-driven team culture where individuality is celebrated.
• A personal learning budget (£1,200/year), mentoring, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Flexible, remote-first working with colleagues across the UK and EU.
• Private health insurance (WPA), pension contributions (6%+), and wellbeing support (£50/month via Juno).
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + your birthday off - increasing by 1 day per year after 3 years' service (capped at 30).
• A tiered parental leave policy (16 weeks maternity, 4 weeks partner, full pay depending on tenure).
• EV salary sacrifice scheme (depending on tenure).
• A clear career framework with review cycles every 6 months and a genuine path to a permanent role.

Ever since Futurice was founded, we've focused on creating a workplace people genuinely enjoy, Mondays included. We've built a welcoming culture where trust, kindness, and well-being matter as much as great work. Our atmosphere is open and warm, whether you're in the office or working remotely. You'll quickly feel part of the community where coffee chats, virtual fikas, or after-work hangouts happen naturally. Because our culture is shaped by all of us, every day, you'll have an opportunity to influence how we work, connect, and evolve as a community. Across countries, teams, and time zones, everyone brings their own character, helping shape how we work, connect, and evolve together. At Futurice, new joiners aren't expected to fit into a mold. Come as you are, whatever your background. We believe in the power of different perspectives, and diversity is a key part of our success at delivering customer value when they trust us with some of their most challenging and inspiring challenges. You can read more about our DE&I commitment here. Please note: Unfortunately we won't be able to offer visa sponsorship for this role.   You must create an Indeed account before continuing to the company website to apply