Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer – KTP Associate (Fixed term 24 months)

JCR Group Restricted T/A Bodyswaps and The School of Computing at Birmingham Metropolis College (BCU) are searching for to nominate an Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Engineer Data Switch Partnership (KTP) Affiliate within the broad space of Generative AI and Massive Language Fashions (KTP Affiliate).

The profitable candidate will likely be employed by Birmingham Metropolis College and located on-site at Bodyswaps (London). Bodyswaps is an award-winning VR platform that brings reasonable simulations and AI-enabled suggestions to tender expertise coaching. Right here, learners can practise and fail safely with out repercussions, whereas constructing the communication, teamwork and management expertise wanted for profitable careers. Since 2019, London-based Bodyswaps has helped a variety of instructional establishments and company shoppers to unlock human potential within the office.  For extra info, please go to: https://bodyswaps.co/

This KTP will likely be to assist develop new cutting-edge communication expertise coaching simulations – pushed by AI and language fashions. This venture will examine Bodyswaps’ pedagogy and leverage advances in Generative AI and Massive Language Fashions to allow trainees to practise conversations with lifelike AI avatars inside extremely customisable situations. Throughout coaching, the learner will obtain extremely personalised suggestions with the intention to increase their efficiency.

This place varieties a part of the Data Switch programme (KTP), co-funded by grant from Innovate UK and Bodyswaps.  It’s important you perceive the basics of how a KTP works between a enterprise and the College and the very important function you’ll play in the event you efficiently safe this place. The Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Engineer KTP Affiliate can have entry to a wider vary of advantages together with a private growth finances of £4,000 to upskill in the course of the venture.  For extra info, please go to:  http://bcuadvantage.co.uk/funding/knowledge-transfer-partnerships .

The profitable candidate recruited for this place will likely be employed as an Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Engineer (KTP Affiliate).  This place presents an thrilling alternative to work in collaboration with main teachers at Birmingham Metropolis College (BCU) to use data and technical innovation, delivered on website on the firm.  The Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Engineer (KTP Affiliate) ought to have a minimal 2.1 College qualification and graduated inside the final 5 years and maintain at the very least an undergraduate diploma in a related topic space.

It is best to have a very good first diploma and postgraduate diploma in Pc Science or Knowledge Science, or a associated self-discipline, wonderful programming expertise, and nice communication expertise and expertise of efficiently working as a part of a staff. We count on the put up holder to have the next technical data and private expertise: 

OUR VISION

Birmingham Metropolis College is rising in high quality and standing, with an educational STEAM agenda on the coronary heart of our ambitions. We’re remodeling the lives of scholars and their communities, and wish excellent folks to hitch us in taking us on the subsequent stage of our thrilling journey.  

Our college students be taught by means of doing. They’re empowered all through their instructional journey, attaining important instructional acquire and private transformation.  

There has by no means been a greater time to hitch us. Come and be a part of the subsequent thrilling stage of our journey.

ABOUT BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY

On the coronary heart of our 2025 Technique is our mission is to allow our college students to remodel their lives and to realize their potential. By our schooling and analysis, and the roles our graduates go on to play on the earth, we not solely assist people to remodel their lives, however we additionally play an element in remodeling society.

Positioned within the centre of the UK’s second metropolis, we’re a college with a protracted heritage of innovation and of constructing, courting again to our origins in 1843 after we had been based because the Birmingham Authorities Faculty of Design.  

Our heritage of constructing by means of innovation and its utility by means of data trade, and of inventive analysis and observe, as we speak finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our analysis and enterprise, and in our dedication to challenge-based studying. Working throughout disciplines, and delivering impactful analysis and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is on the coronary heart of the persevering with transformation of our educational portfolio. 

OUR STAFF COMMUNITY 

Birmingham is dwelling to a wealthy and various vary of communities.  Our college students replicate this wealthy cultural combine, and we’re persevering with to work to guarantee that that is additionally mirrored in our broader college group. 

Birmingham Metropolis College values the standard and variety of our workers. Our workers and pupil group is outlined by our core values, which define who we’re as a College and the way we work with one another. Our core values are we create alternative, we predict in another way, and we construct group. 

We’re dedicated to equality, variety and inclusion, constantly reviewing and bettering our insurance policies, practices, and procedures to make sure that we’re selling these in all points of our operations. We consider that by working collectively, combining our many various backgrounds and life experiences, we are going to empower one another to achieve our full potential. 

We maintain an Athena SWAN Bronze award in recognition of our dedication to bettering employment practices for the development of gender equality.

Our College is situated in some of the culturally wealthy and various Cities within the UK, and it’s our ambition to be the College for Birmingham and the encircling area. The occasions of 2020 have highlighted the stark inequalities that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Communities face and we’re dedicated to eradicating the institutional limitations that our workers and college students face and enhance the illustration, development and success of workers and college students from all backgrounds inside increased schooling.  To display this, we’ve got signed as much as the Race Equality Constitution to point out our dedication.

Birmingham Metropolis College has been recognised for its progress on LGBT+ equality with a Gold award within the Stonewall Index and have entered the Prime 100 Employers 2023 for LGBT+ inclusion. In the meantime, we’re Incapacity Assured (Dedicated) and are on an thrilling journey to advance our College to progress by means of the Incapacity Assured scheme.

We’re additionally a Aware Employer, which implies we’re dedicated to supporting the psychological well being and well-being of our workers, and we’ve got additionally signed as much as the Psychological Well being Constitution led by pupil psychological well being charity Pupil Minds.   Moreover, we’re signed as much as The Technician Dedication – a college and analysis establishment initiative supported by the Science Council and Gatsby Basis – aiming to make sure visibility, recognition, profession growth and sustainability for technicians working in increased schooling and analysis.

WORKING AND LIVING IN BIRMINGHAM

The youngest metropolis in Europe with under-25s accounting for almost 40% of the inhabitants, Birmingham is a metropolis stuffed with vitality and enthusiasm and is a good place to stay and work.

Based mostly within the coronary heart of England, the town is definitely accessible by street, rail and air. Birmingham New Road station has not too long ago undergone main redevelopment, whereas the town is on the coronary heart of the high-speed rail community, HS2.  HS2 will present new fast rail journey connecting Birmingham Metropolis Centre to London and the remainder of the community from the brand new Curzon Road Station – adjoining to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Metropolis Centre Campus – and will likely be some of the environmentally pleasant stations on the earth.

Town’s urge for food for development is boundless, and it has been championing innovation for the reason that earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, mirrored in Birmingham Metropolis College’s new STEAMhouse constructing which opened in October 2022 and is dwelling to an inter-disciplinary group of entrepreneurs, companies, educational researchers, and college students providing a wealth of assist to firms of all sizes to spice up progress by means of innovation to handle industrial and societal challenges.

Birmingham is brimming with nice theatres, museums, the world-famous Birmingham Metropolis College Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, in addition to stunning historic buildings and the enduring Library of Birmingham. It additionally has wonderful live performance and sporting venues together with Edgbaston Cricket floor, which Birmingham Metropolis College has a long-standing partnership with.  It’s also dwelling to the Alexander Stadium, which is the beautiful new dwelling for Birmingham Metropolis College’s sport programs.  The Stadium was one of many most important occasion areas for the Birmingham Commonwealth Video games in 2022, which noticed the eyes of the world on the town, and Birmingham Metropolis College workers and college students performed pivotal roles – together with designing the official medals for profitable athletes. 

Birmingham’s vibrant eating scene presents one thing for all tastes, together with Michelin star eating places, Spiceal Road on the Bullring, the Chinese language Quarter, and the well-known Balti Triangle.

Town additionally supplies an ideal place to buy, being dwelling the Bullring and Grand Central, the luxurious Mailbox Birmingham and the world-famous dwelling of British bling – the Jewelry Quarter, which is dwelling to Birmingham Metropolis College’s Faculty of Jewelry.

From Harvey Nichols, Selfridges and the attractive arcades and independents, to the town’s historic markets in Digbeth, the outlets in Birmingham provide a plethora of alternative.

BCU Values underpin how we work in attaining the ambitions set out in our Technique and Priorities, and are the ideas that unite the way in which we work collectively and for our college students.