Junior AI Engineer in Eastleigh

Step into a role where your work shapes the future of insurance. At Ageas/esure, we’re building on an exciting foundation of 20 live AI use cases already empowering over 900 frontline colleagues — and we’re just getting started! As a Junior AI Engineer, you’ll step into a rapidly growing team where you’ll help build and scale the next generation of AI-driven solutions across our business. You’ll work hands‑on with real AI products already used by hundreds of colleagues, gaining exposure to cutting‑edge tools, cloud technologies and real-world deployment. If you’re curious, ambitious and excited to build meaningful AI that makes a difference, this is the perfect place to start your journey.

Main Responsibilities

• Deliver end‑to‑end AI projects with support from senior engineers, from scoping and R&D to production and measuring impact.
• Work within the Data Science & AI team to help deploy scalable, innovative AI solutions across the business.
• Collaborate with a cross‑functional squad — DevOps, data engineers, developers, testers and Infosec — to productionise AI services in AWS.
• Build proficiency in esure’s tech stack, including MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, UI tools and our AI Python library.
• Develop prompts, fine-tune open-source base-models and track results.

Skills and Experience

• Exposure to developing NLP models, including prompt engineering and fine‑tuning LLMs in a commercial or academic setting.
• Able to complete tasks and projects with support from more experienced colleagues.
• Some experience presenting technical findings to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Proficient with the Python data science stack (pandas, scikit‑learn, Jupyter, etc.) and version control tools like Git.
• Any exposure to LLMOps, model monitoring, CI/CD and related technologies (Docker, MLflow, Kubernetes, FastAPI, etc.).

Benefits

• Flexible Working: Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares.
• Minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Health: Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Wealth: 50% off esure and Sheila's Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Work Life: Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Family: Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Tech Discounts: Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting Around: Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Back to Work: Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

We have a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.