Senior AI Engineer, AI Lab

Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance. It includes a highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan, private health insurance, and 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program.

Work From Anywhere

program, which allows you to work from any location where you have the legal right to do so for up to 25 days per year. In addition, we provide generous annual and parental leave, as well as dedicated days off for volunteering and even for moving home.

You will also be given free access to all

The Economist

content, including an online subscription, our range of apps, podcasts and more.

Fine-tune large language models (LLMs) for style and tone alignment with The Economist’s editorial voice

Design, curate, and manage datasets used for fine-tuning, including versioning and annotation workflows

Build and evaluate RAG pipelines that incorporate retrieval from structured content

Prototype and test TTS (text-to-speech) pipelines for use in audio-first products (leveraging tools like ElevenLabs, OpenAI TTS etc)

Collaborate with infra, frontend, and design leads to ship internal tools and demos that explore GenAI capabilities

Own quality evaluation pipelines (BLEU, ROUGE, editorial scoring, custom evals), including human-in-the-loop feedback loops

We believe AI will fundamentally change both our business and the world around us, making our mission more vital than ever. While we already use AI across The Economist Group, we think the changes to come in the next few years could be even more far-reaching.

This is why we are launching the Economist AI Lab—to reimagine Economist journalism for an AI-driven world. It is a deliberately ambitious project, exploring new ideas and possibilities beyond our existing AI initiatives and engineering roadmap.

A small, dedicated team, the AI Lab will serve as an innovation engine for The Economist – investigating bold new ideas that will shape how we serve our global audience in the future.

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Working Arrangements

The majority of our roles operate on a hybrid working pattern, with 3+ days office attendance required.