Job Description

Are you interested in working with a leading education technology player, the global leader in the assessment and certification of professional skills industry with presence in more than 200 countries worldwide? If so, this is the chance to apply now! 📥

PeopleCert is seeking an AI Engineer who will design, build, evaluate, and produce AI-powered solutions across our platforms. You will focus on applied AI innovation: using LLMs, retrieval systems, classical ML, and automation pipelines to deliver real-world value for learners, partners, exam operations, and internal teams.

As an AI Engineer your tasks will include the following:

• Design, develop, fine-tune, and evaluate AI, ML, and generative AI models for enterprise and product use cases.
• Build AI-powered applications, APIs, and automation pipelines using Python and modern AI engineering practices.
• Develop experimentation and evaluation workflows for prompts, models, retrieval quality, benchmarking, and production performance.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and business stakeholders to prepare, validate, and manage high-quality datasets.
• Work closely with MLOps / platform teams to deploy, monitor, and maintain AI solutions in production.

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s Degree in STEM, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; a Master’s degree or higher will be considered a plus.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building AI, ML, or data-driven solutions and taking them from prototype to usable applications, APIs, or production workflows.
• Strong Python skills and experience with frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, FastAPI, and Streamlit.
• Hands-on expertise with foundation models, LLMs, transformers, embeddings, RAG, and multimodal AI.
• Familiarity with cloud AI platforms and services, such as Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure ML, or Azure Cognitive Services.
• Excellent knowledge of English. C2 level certification is desired; LanguageCert C2 LTE or C2 IESOL certificate would be a plus. Extra languages desired.
• Advanced computer literacy is required. ECDL Advanced level certification is desirable.
• Problem-solving mindset with ability to align technical solutions to business needs.
  

Nice-to-Have:

• Familiarity with API design best practices, including authentication, versioning, validation, documentation, error handling, and monitoring.
• Experience with retrieval-augmented generation, hybrid search, semantic ranking, or vector databases.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment, CI/CD workflows, Docker, Kubernetes, or serverless architectures.
• Understanding of prompt engineering and LLM evaluation techniques will be considered a plus.
  

What we offer:

• Competitive Compensation: An attractive remuneration package commensurate with experience and expertise.

• Global Impact: A unique opportunity to contribute to a global leader in education technology, with exposure to diverse markets and cultures.
• Professional Growth: Continuous personal and professional development opportunities within a global, innovative, and collaborative environment.
• Perks: Access to exclusive certifications and professional development resources, along with a dynamic and inclusive workplace culture

About PeopleCert

PeopleCert is a global leader in assessment and certification of professional skills, partnering with multi-national organizations and government bodies for the development & delivery of standardized exams. Delivering exams across 200 countries and in 25 languages over its state-of-the-art assessment technology, PeopleCert enables professionals to boost their careers and realize their life ambitions.

Quality, Innovation, Passion, Integrity, Clarity, Velocity are the core values which guide everything we do.

Our offices in UK, Greece, Cyprus and India boast a culture of diversity, where everyone is different, yet everyone fits in. All of us at PeopleCert are committed to the reflection of the diversity and inclusion of our customers and the communities in which we do business.

Working on Home Office (HO) Secure English Language Tests (SELTs)

Any person who is engaged by PeopleCert to work on the SELT service must undergo a Background Check (the results of which must be acceptable to PeopleCert and the HO) prior to commencing their SELT duties. All SELT personnel will be required to complete a declaration (provided by PeopleCert) where the existence of any criminal record and/or bankruptcy must be declared.

If working on the SELT service in the UK, background checks will include:

• A basic or enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check

• Right to Work in the UK check (including nationality, identity and place of residence)

• HO security check (Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) or Counter Terrorist Check (CTC)

• Financial background check

• Employment reference check.

• If working on the SELT service anywhere in the world (outside of the UK) personnel will undergo background checks that are equivalent to those stated for the UK.

In addition, if personnel are required to speak to SELT candidates they must be appropriately skilled in English language and, where SELT services are provided anywhere in the world (outside of the UK), the official language of the relevant country.

All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.