This is a full‑time role at the centre of our new AI Lab, a small team exploring how generative AI might shape the future of The Economist journalism. This role will focus on building and fine‑tuning LLM‑powered systems with a particular focus on editorial tone, style transfer, retrieval workflows, and multimodal generation (especially audio).

You’ll ship products from zero‑to‑one and see your ideas directly influence how millions of readers interact with our journalism. If you enjoy working close to design, iterating fast, and building novel interactions across text, voice, and visuals, we’d love to hear from you. You’ll be one of the first three engineers in a dedicated lab, working alongside the Tech Lead, Design Lead and Product Lead.

What You’ll Do

• 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 version...