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AI Research Engineer

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In-Office
New Malden, Surrey, England
Entry level
In-Office
New Malden, Surrey, England
Entry level
Develop AI-first products, automate claims handling processes, and build evaluation frameworks to enhance AI capabilities at Homeprotect.
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About Homeprotect

We founded Homeprotect on a simple principle – to provide protection to people underserved by the home insurance industry.

We’re experts at insuring people who want to build or buy a unique property, renovate, rent a home or leave it unoccupied. We can cover people who travel a lot, run a business from home or even collect rare treasures. We protect people who love living in a listed building, having a view of a river or sunbathing on a flat roof.

We can do this because our smart tech enables our customers to get an instant, online quote to cover a huge range of complex needs and our UK customer support teams are on hand to provide information and support when only a real person will do.

Our insurance has already empowered hundreds of thousands of people to protect their homes and the things they love. But we’re not content with being the leading provider of what’s called ‘non-standard’ insurance. We believe there’s no such thing as ‘standard’. We’re all unique and we all deserve home insurance designed with our individual needs in mind – something our combination of real people and smart tech enables us to do.

Our simple promise? Whoever you are and wherever you live, with Homeprotect we’ve got you covered.

What It's Like To Work Here

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our people. We’re a small but perfectly formed team, made up of insurance industry specialists alongside a diverse mix of technologists, data scientists and customer and marketing champions from all sorts of industries and backgrounds. We all bring our individual expertise, an appetite for innovation and a shared ambition to empower people to protect their homes and the things that they love.

Working in a fast-paced environment where change happens regularly is how we do things. But we also recognise that you’ll do your best work when you have the right balance, which is why we’ve fully embraced hybrid working, giving our teams the flexibility to choose the right location and working hours for them. We focus on the outputs of work, not where it’s completed, with an expectation that colleagues spend around one day a week in the office (or a minimum of four days per month) to connect and collaborate. There will be times when getting together in one location makes sense, but day to day, our teams have the freedom to decide where to work, and we trust them to balance business needs with their own preferences.

 Most companies think their culture is great, however at Homeprotect, we have the proof to back this up. We have been recognised externally as a Great Place to Work for the last six consecutive years

Sound good? Read on to find out more about joining our team…

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop AI-first products at Homeprotect to provide tangible business value. One example includes Alfred, Homeprotect’s internal AI agent, to boost staff productivity across internal staff use cases (email/comms drafting, letter templates, onboarding materials, summaries, training content, agendas/minutes, process maps, checklists, and brainstorming).
  • Develop AI agents to automate Homeprotect’s claims handling process throughout logging & validation, assessment, fulfilment and settlement. These will be deployed in the Google Cloud Platform using the agent development kit https://google.github.io/adk-docs/
  • Build and improve the agent evaluation framework to continuously test and monitor for desired AI behaviour and performance e.g. completeness of response, accuracy of information, satisfactory client outcome.
  • Work with key business stakeholders, particularly in Claims Operations, to demonstrate AI functionality and business value-add.

Requirements

We would love to hear from people with the following skills and experience:

  • Proficient in Python, capable of building robust backend services and integrating REST/JSON APIs.
  • Hands‑on with LLMs and embeddings (OpenAI, Gemini, Llama, Claude), prompt design, function calling, RAG patterns, and vector databases.
  • GCP experience: Vertex AI, Model Garden, BigQuery, CloudRun Functions.
  • Document and data handling: text normalisation, chunking strategies, metadata/ACL propagation; storage and caching with Postgres, Redis, and Azure Blobs.
  • DevOps and quality: Git best practices, CI/CD (Azure DevOps), Docker, observability (logging/metrics/tracing), evaluation frameworks, A/B testing, and cost/latency monitoring.

Benefits

We think we have a fantastic company culture and welcome new team members with open arms. We also offer a great range of benefits, including:

  • A genuinely flexible approach to work. We are really supportive of you flexing your hours and location to help you keep everything in your life in balance.
  • Opportunities to focus on your professional growth whether that’s through training or other personal development opportunities - we want you to build your long-term career with us.
  • Discount of 50% and 15% for friends and family when you choose to take out a home insurance policy with us.
  • An in-house wellbeing programme including seminars and workshops from wellbeing coaches and professionals.
  • Home working starter kit and money to spend on additional equipment you may need.
  • Charitable giving scheme, so you can donate to our partner charity, or one of your choices.
  • The opportunity to work alongside brilliant people, because this isn’t something that every organisation can offer!

On top of that, we also offer all the standard stuff, like:

  • 25 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays) and the ability to buy and sell >5 days annually.
  • Private medical cover for all employees
  • Life insurance
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme
  • Pension contribution
  • Free fruit and really good coffee for the days you come into the office.
  • Local and national retail discounts

Have we captured your imagination? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

Unique As Standard

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds, as long as you meet the knowledge, skills and experience criteria for the role and have the right to work in the UK. We think everyone can excel in the right environment – no matter your gender, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disabilities or beliefs. We believe in celebrating difference, and everything that makes both our customers and people unique, by creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

We encourage you to let us know if you need any extra help with your application, or if you have any requirements at any stage of the recruitment journey.

Equally, lots of our staff at Homeprotect work flexibly and in a variety of ways, whether that’s different core hours or remote working. Please chat to us at your application or interview stage about the flexibility you need, as we’re always happy to explore what's possible for the role.

Your data will be maintained in line with our ‘recruitment data privacy policy’ found here.

Top Skills

Azure Devops
BigQuery
Claude
Docker
GCP
Gemini
Llama
Openai
Postgres
Python
Redis
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