2027 Ai Engineer Apprentice

About the role

Turn your curiosity into a career! 🧠✨ Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence, super eager to learn, and looking for a degree apprenticeship that mixes academic study with awesome on-the-job experience? We want to hear from you! 🚀

Why This Apprenticeship Rocks: 🌟

• Get Paid While You Learn: Earn a salary from day one. 💰
• Real-World AI & Engineering: Gain hands-on experience in a cutting-edge AI and engineering environment. 🤖🔧
• Level Up Your Skills: Receive job-specific training and development to become an expert. 📈
• Get Qualified: Achieve a recognised qualification that opens doors. 🎓
• Secure Your Future: A permanent role is yours from the start of your apprenticeship. 🤝
• University on Us: Your tuition fees are fully paid. 💯

About the Role: 💻

As an AI Engineer Apprentice, you'll build the technical smarts, practical skills, and professional habits needed to design, build, test, and launch reliable AI-powered solutions. You’ll be part of our vibrant AI and engineering crew, contributing to real projects throughout the machine learning lifecycle. You'll collaborate with software gurus, data wizards, systems experts, and industry specialists to transform needs into secure, maintainable solutions.

Your Mission Might Include: 🎯

• Getting data ready, exploring it, and checking its quality for machine learning tasks. 📊
• Creating and evaluating machine learning models and AI software components. 💡
• Writing clean, tested, and well-documented code using the latest engineering tools and practices. ✍️
• Helping with model integration, deployment, monitoring, and making them even better. 👀
• Contributing to technical reviews, experiments, and smart problem-solving. 🤔
• Working alongside experienced engineers and researchers on live projects. 🧑‍🔬

You'll Gain Epic Experience & Knowledge In: 📚

• Professionalism: Engineering behaviours, teamwork, and industry best practices. 👍
• Coding & Tools: Programming, software engineering, version control, and automated testing. 🛠️
• Data Mastery: Data preparation, feature engineering, and ensuring data quality. 💾
• AI Power: Machine learning methods, model selection, training, and evaluation. 🧠
• Deployment & Ops: Deployment patterns, MLOps, monitoring, and lifecycle management. 🚀
• Tech Stack: Cloud, compute, and development tools for delivering AI solutions. ☁️
• Responsible AI: Security, privacy, safety, and following regulations. 🛡️
• Problem Solving: Structured approaches to troubleshooting, experimenting, and constant improvement. ✅

Your Degree Apprenticeship Journey: 🎓

You'll study towards an AI and Data Science Graduate Level Apprenticeship qualification with Glasgow Caledonian University. This will equip you with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to build and use AI responsibly in an engineering setting.

Learning Style: 💡

This programme uses a blended learning approach, combining:

• On campus study 🏛️
• Live virtual lectures 💻
• Online learning resources 🌐
• Self-directed study 📚

Key responsibilities

• Preparing, exploring and validating data for machine learning use cases
• Developing and evaluating machine learning models and AI-enabled software components
• Writing clean, tested and documented code using appropriate engineering tools and practices
• Supporting model integration, deployment, monitoring and performance improvement
• Contributing to technical reviews, experiments and structured problem solving

Entry requirements

Essential qualifications (To apply, you will need: Highers: 96 UCAS points Four Highers (BBCC) including Maths or Computing A foundation apprenticeship will be equal to one Higher at B A modern apprenticeship SCQF Level 6 in a relevant discipline will be equal to two Highers at B To be considered for this position, you must have the permanent right to work in the UK and be able to successfully complete and maintain UK Government security checks, including Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) screening and Security Clearance (SC), which is a government background check, before starting employment.  To be eligible for SC clearance, you will typically need to have lived in the UK continuously for the last five years. As part of the vetting process, you will be asked to provide evidence of your identity, right to work in the UK, any time spent overseas during the last five years, and your employment and/or education history. For further details of the evidence required to apply for security clearance please follow this link -https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels/national-security-vetting-clearance-levels.)

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