Junior AI Engineer - Remote / Contract

About Attercop Attercop is a knowledge engineering and agentic AI company built specifically for private equity and professional services. We turn fragmented, hard to use information into structured intelligence and deploy autonomous AI agents that make decisions, not just recommendations. Our systems deliver faster insights, operational efficiency gains, and real value creation across the PE lifecycle — from diligence and data organisation to portfolio wide transformation. Role Overview You’ll join our engineering team as a Graduate AI Engineer, working with experienced engineers and data scientists on applied AI projects. Expect hands-on model integration, agentic workflow development, data engineering fundamentals, and early exposure to deployment and DevOps. This role offers structured progression, mentorship, and real responsibility from day one. Core Responsibilities Model Engineering Support senior engineers in building production AI services Write clean Python for data processing, inference, and APIs Contribute to testing, validation, and performance optimisation Agentic Workflows Learn frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, and Microsoft Agent Framework Build components for multi-agent systems Apply prompt engineering and RAG techniques Contribute to internal research and documentation Data Engineering Assist with ETL pipelines and dataset preparation Work with PostgreSQL and gain exposure to NoSQL/vector databases Support data quality and governance practices Deployment \& DevOps Learn Docker and containerisation Gain hands-on experience with Azure Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and basic monitoring What We’re Looking For Education Degree in Computer Science, AI, Software Engineering, Data Science, or similar Strong academic performance Essential Skills Solid Python (NumPy, Pandas, core data structures) Understanding of software engineering fundamentals (Git, testing) Basic ML knowledge (supervised learning, neural networks, NLP) SQL familiarity Strong analytical problem-solving Desirable Skills Exposure to FastAPI/Flask/Django Cloud familiarity (Azure/AWS/GCP) Docker basics Interest in LLMs, prompt engineering, or GenAI Personal projects, hackathons, open-source contributions Experience with async Python or type hinting