Campus - Full Time - AI Engineer - 2027 (UK - Burgess Hill)
At a glance
Mid-level AI Engineering role at Egug. Burgess Hill · full-time · no salary stated · we estimate £54,125–£91,875 across the United Kingdom.
Egug has not published a salary for this role. The figure below is our estimate, not theirs.
aimlroles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Help build, test and connect AI models, language-model services and data retrieval pipelines with guidance
- Prepare and check data for model training, evaluation and implementation
- Troubleshoot AI features to improve their performance, reliability and maintainability
- Record prompts, model settings, data flows and technical decisions so teams can reproduce the work
- Work through Agile ceremonies and coordinate with engineering, product, data, risk, security and business teams
What you bring
- Before starting, you have a bachelor's or master's degree in a technical field and a graduation date within the stated window
- You know Python and core data-processing methods
- You understand core programming concepts and machine learning, including model training and evaluation
- You have introductory familiarity with LLM APIs, prompt interactions, retrieval or generative AI applications
Who this fits
This is a full-time graduate role for someone starting out in AI engineering who can contribute under guidance and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams. The position is in Burgess Hill, UK, and requires eligibility to work in the United Kingdom; visa sponsorship is not available.
From the employer
At American Express, we empower technologists to learn, innovate, and make an impact from day one. As an AI Engineer I in Enterprise Technology Services, you’ll join a full-time graduate program and contribute to technology work that helps teams explore, build, test, and responsibly scale AI-enabled solutions.
In this role, you may support work across machine learning, generative AI, intelligent automation, data pipelines, retrieval patterns, model evaluation, LLM integrations, AI agents, agentic workflows, and AI-enabled software features. You’ll collaborate with engineering, product, data, security, risk, and business partners to help deliver enterprise AI solutions responsibly, reliably, and securely.
Responsibilities & What Type of Work to Expect:
- Support the development, testing, and integration of AI / ML models, LLM integrations, intelligent services, or data retrieval pipelines under guidance.
- Assist with data collection, preprocessing, transformation, and validation to support model training, testing, evaluation, and implementation.
- Contribute to debugging and improving AI enabled solutions to strengthen performance, reliability, explainability, maintainability, and quality.
- Support AI capabilities such as model training workflows, inference endpoints, prompt-based interactions, evaluation routines, retrieval patterns, AI agents, or agentic workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, data, risk, security, and business partners to implement AI-driven solutions aligned to business requirements.
- Document model parameters, prompts, assumptions, data pipelines, integrations, and technical decisions to support reproducibility and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in Agile development practices, including sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives, code reviews, and team ceremonies.
- Assist in ensuring AI systems and AI-enabled features align with enterprise expectations for reliability, safety, governance, security, compliance, and appropriate escalation.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must have earned a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or another technical field before the full-time start date.
- Students must have a graduation date between December 2026 and June 2027
- Knowledge of Python and foundational data processing technologies.
- Foundational understanding of computer science concepts, including data structures, algorithms, object-oriented programming, debugging, testing, and problem solving.
- Foundational understanding of machine learning concepts such as supervised learning, unsupervised learning, model training, evaluation, feature engineering, and experimentation.
- Introductory understanding of modern AI systems, including LLM APIs, prompt-based interactions, retrieval patterns, AI powered tools, or generative AI applications.
- Ability to support AI/ML development, testing, documentation, integration, or data pipeline activities under guidance.
- Awareness of responsible AI expectations, including reliability, safety, governance, security, privacy, compliance, and appropriate escalation when work is unclear or outside standard guidance.
Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and learning agility with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience through academic coursework, research, projects, open-source contributions, internships, hackathons, or extracurricular activities using Python, R, Java, JavaScript, or similar technologies.
- Interest in machine learning, generative AI, natural language processing, intelligent automation, data engineering, agentic AI, or AI-enabled software development.
- Familiarity with NLP techniques and model concepts such as fuzzy matching, embeddings, BERT, transformers, LLMs, or other modern language models.
- Exposure to LLM APIs or similar AI models, including prompt engineering, prompt evaluation, tools, function calling, retrieval patterns, or agent workflow concepts.
- Experience or coursework involving machine learning algorithms and applying them to practical or real-world problems.
- Familiarity with APIs, data pipelines, ETL processes, cloud environments, containerized development, model deployment patterns, or monitoring.
- Awareness of CI/CD, version control, testing, code reviews, Agile development, and collaborative software engineering workflows.
- Exposure to version control systems such as Git and collaborative software development workflows.
- Curiosity for AI powered developer tools, responsible AI practices, governance, security, model documentation, and enterprise-scale delivery.
Employment eligibility to work with American Express in the United Kingdom is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.