AI Engineer Intern - Innovation Team (Hiring Immediately)

Location: DMGT HQ - High Street Kensington, London
Position: Internship (8 weeks) from June.

About the Role

We are looking for a forward-thinking AI Engineer Intern to join our Innovation Team . This role is designed for a student or recent graduate eager to bridge the gap between emerging AI capabilities and real-world media applications. You will help us explore how AI agents, prompt engineering, and predictive modeling can transform modern journalism and commercial operations.

Main Responsibilities

• Research AI Opportunities: Provide thorough insight into the latest AI trends, emerging models, and frameworks that the innovation team could test and implement to improve the performance of AI systems.
• Prototyping: Assist in designing and prototyping AI-driven tools to improve newsroom efficiency and digital product innovation.
• Prompt & Context Engineering: Explore ways to optimise the prompt and context that is passed to AI agents for production-grade systems.
• Building AI Agents: Help develop and test automation tools that use agentic and LLM workflows to streamline repetitive tasks and accelerate business performance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work alongside editorial, product, and technology teams to identify new AI opportunities.
• Test & Learn: Contribute to a culture of rapid experimentation and iterative learning.

Person Specification

• Technical Foundation: A background in AI/ML engineering, data science, or a related academic field.
• Core Knowledge: Understanding of LLMs, NLP concepts, and AI frameworks (e.g., Pydantic AI, Langchain, LlamaIndex).
• Programming Skills: Proficiency in Python and experience working with APIs.
• Agentic IDE Experience: Ability to assist in code development using agentic IDEs and MCP servers alongside them.
• Cloud Awareness: Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) is a plus.
• Problem-Solving: The ability to understand business needs and translate them into AI solutions.
• Passion: A genuine interest in emerging technologies and driving change within the news industry.

About Us

dmg media maintains an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most. Its brands Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, The i Paper, MailOnline, and Mail+reach more than 9 million people daily in the UK.
Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 160 million unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.*

Its global newsroom of journalists, formidable story-getting power, and breadth of content formats, delivers highly engaging, trusted content to loyal and new audiences, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The Mail brand reaches three in five Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country. It is the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 28 million total followers and nearly 45 billion views** in the past year.

*GA Sept 2024 **March 2024 - Feb 2025 inclusive

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.