AI Engineering Industry Mentor
At peopleworth, we support work where people and performance thrive. As part of our Employer Group, we work with a variety of forward-thinking partners and are excited to share this opportunity that sits within our growing group.
Role Overview
This opportunity is for a practising AI engineering professional to bring current industry experience into a career-focused learning environment. The role supports learners developing production-ready AI engineering capability, with a particular focus on LLM-based application engineering, real-world engineering practice, career development, and industry context.
The Industry Mentor works alongside academic tutors while maintaining a distinct remit. Academic teaching, assessment, grading, and academic standards sit outside this role. The mentor focuses on connecting technical learning to how AI systems are built, operated, evaluated, governed, and hired for in industry today.
Requirements
- Demonstrated professional software engineering experience with hands-on involvement in building and operating LLM-based systems in production.
- Current professional experience in a role such as AI Engineer, AI Application Engineer, Senior or Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, Technical Lead, Principal Engineer, Architect, or AI Engineering Consultant.
- Practical experience with LLM APIs, function calling, RAG, retrieval design, agent architectures, evaluation approache
