Engineering Research Assistant
Location
london, england
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Other
Posted
June 18, 2026
Overview
Lead Recruiter at Russell Tobin UK/Ireland/Netherlands
Contract
4 months contract / Hybrid 3 days in office / London / Rate Paye Inside IR - 53 per hour
Role
Research assistant with 2+ years of experience prototyping and testing AI agents and/or LLM models.
Responsibilities
- Create test prompts for AI agent. Experiment with different prompt formulations to steer AI Agent towards ideal behavior.
- Implement and debug AI agent tool calls in a python / PHP SW stack.
- Assemble high quality prompts to create Meta internal benchmarks for AI agents similar to MLEBench and BFCL.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Research or prototyping experience in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing.
- Programming experience in Python ...