Junior Digital Innovation Engineer

The Junior Digital Innovation Engineer supports the R&D team's mandate to explore and prototype emerging AI/ML capabilities, evaluate new technologies, and investigate improved software development approaches. Working under the guidance of the Team Lead and senior team members, the role conducts technology and literature scanning, assists in building proof-of-concept prototypes and feasibility spikes, documents findings clearly, and presents experiment results to the team. The role is expected to grow steadily in independence and technical scope as competence and confidence increase. Technology & Literature Scanning Researches and tracks developments in AI/ML, emerging frameworks, and developer tooling relevant to the product and team's technology stack. Summarises findings from articles, papers, vendor releases, and community sources into digestible internal notes. Flags technologies, platforms, or techniques (e.g., new LLM capabilities, AI/ML frameworks, cloud AI services) that may warrant a deeper spike. Maintains an up-to-date view of the broader industry landscape relevant to the team's exploration areas. Assisting with Prototypes and Feasibility Spikes Assists in building small-scale proofs-of-concept and feasibility spikes under the guidance of the Team Lead or senior team members. Implements clearly-scoped experimental tasks using assigned frameworks, APIs, or platforms (e.g., LangChain, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face). Sets up and tears down experimental environm