Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Roles: x 2
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We are seeking talented and motivated individuals to join our Development Team working in the AI Squad within the Development Team. This role is ideal for graduates or early‑career developers with strong programming fundamentals, a genuine enthusiasm for AI, and a curiosity to explore how AI can be applied to solve real‑world problems.
We’re particularly keen to hear from interested in candidates who demonstrate strong foundational engineering capabilities, alongside evidence of self-driven learning, experimentation, and intellectual curiosity. This may include internships, hackathons, personal or academic projects, or other practical experience that goes beyond academic coursework.
who have demonstrated their interest through internships, hackathons, personal or academic projects, or relevant coursework, and who show clear evidence of self‑learning and experimentation with modern technologies.
In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with experienced software engineers, data scientists, and data engineers to develop impactful solutions, tackle complex challenges, and support the delivery of AI initiatives across RLAM. You will be supported to learn and grow in a fast-moving, collaborative environment that values curiosity, adaptability, and continuous improvement.
You’ll be supported to learn, grow, and build your technical and professional skills in a fast‑moving, collaborative, and supportive environment where curiosity and innovation are encouraged.
About the role
Work on real RLAM software products — designing, building, and testing features while applying solid engineering practices, including object-oriented design, clean code principles, and structured application development
Build production-quality software, focusing on well-structured, maintainable applications and services
Design and integrate with external systems and services, developing an understanding of how modern applications interact and operate
Get hands-on with AI and Generative AI, exploring how these techniques can enhance and extend software solutions within real-world applications
Collaborate with engineers and data specialists to integrate AI into live systems, working across data pipelines, APIs, and cloud platforms
Develop an understanding of how AI solutions are built, evaluated, and monitored within production environments
Learn and apply principles of responsible AI, including fairness, explainability, and governance
Operate within agile delivery teams — contributing to sprint goals, breaking down work, documenting solutions, and sharing knowledge
Work effectively in iterative delivery environments, adapting to evolving technologies and requirements within a rapidly advancing AI landscape
Work on real RLAM software products — designing, developing, and testing features while learning solid engineering practices, APIs, and cloud‑based integration.
Get hands‑on with AI and Generative AI, from building models to experimenting with prompt engineering, fine‑tuning, safety alignment, and early agentic AI concepts.
Learn how to build responsible AI by applying fairness, explainability, and governance principles, and by monitoring models to make sure they stay accurate and robust.
Collaborate with experienced engineers and data specialists to integrate AI into live systems, helping with data preparation and understanding how cloud and platform services fit together.
Work in agile sprints, break down tasks, contribute to documentation, share knowledge, and keep building your skills as you stay up to date with the latest AI and ML developments.
About you
Qualification
A First-Class/2:1 degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
We encourage all students to apply, from recent graduates through to MSc/PhD
Technical Skills
Solid Strong foundation in software engineering, particularly object‑oriented programming (e.g. Python or C#), alongside an understanding of core software engineering concepts such as data structures, algorithms, and SOLID principles.
Demonstrable ability to build structured software applications (e.g. use of classes, modular design)
Strong grounding in core programming concepts, including data structures, algorithms, and software design principles (e.g. SOLID)
Confident working with SQL to query, manipulate, and analyse structured data, plus familiarity with REST APIs and OpenAPI standards for building and consuming modern services.
Exposure to data science and machine learning tools such as PyTorch, scikit‑learn, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, XGBoost, or NLTK, with an interest in applying them to real‑world problems.
Growing understanding of modern AI approaches, including LLMs and Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), and how these models are designed, evaluated, and integrated into applications.
Experience (or willingness to learn) unit testing frameworks like PyTest, XUnit, or NUnit to ensure code quality and build good engineering habits early on.
Exposure to data science and machine learning tools such as PyTorch, scikit‑learn, NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, XGBoost, or NLTK, with an interest in applying them to real‑world problems.
Desirable
Prior internship or work experience in software development, Ddata sScience or AI
Experience with AI development tools and platforms (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, AWS, GCP)
Awareness Knowledge of CI/CD concepts
Exposure to emerging concepts such as Knowledge of Agentic AI
Exposure to Git/ and version control practices basics (branching, merging, conflict resolution)
Knowledge of CI/CD
Evidence of self-learning (projects, GitHub, coursework, hackathons)
About Royal London Asset Management
Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
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We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling where all colleagues can thrive and experience a sense of belonging. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
Our inclusive values and people promise are core to who we are and how we work. It’s good for our people, and good for our customers too, because with an inclusive workplace and a diverse workforce we will reflect our members, customers and communities to deliver the best outcomes.
We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across our organisation. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected– whatever their background.
Workplace Initiatives
Program for parents returning to work after Parental Leave? |
No |
Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
26 weeks (followed by 13 weeks half pay) |
Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
4 weeks |
Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
Open to all regardless of length of service |
Gender pay gap reporting information 2022: |
|
Mean pay gap: |
35.3% |
Median pay gap: |
33.9% |
Mean bonus gap: |
70.4% |
Median bonus gap: |
48.5% |
Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
No |
Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
No |
Graduate Programmes
We have a number of graduate programmes designed to deliver technical experts and future leaders.
Royal London Career Confidence programme
Our hybrid programme focuses on equipping you to feel empowered in your career and supported to explore new opportunities as they arise.
Apprenticeships
We offer a wide range of Apprenticeships that are targeted at both new joiners and existing colleagues.
Inclusion
We promote an inclusive culture at Royal London and have a range of inclusion networks for our colleagues to get involved with.
Our Women's Network is a community that celebrates and supports its members, helps everyone to learn more and inspires all of us to aim higher. Confidence and development are strong themes here and our events focus on three key areas of team working, finance, and wellbeing. There are two sub-groups to the Women’s Network – Women in Technology and our Periods and Menopause Group – focused on actions such as supporting over 20 new Periods and Menopause champions and launching guidance and training for leaders.