Play a founding engineer role at the UK's leading impact investor helping us build out the infrastructure for AI/agents to sit on top of and building out solutions for high-value use cases. Details below Apply here: https://app.beapplied.com/apply/oplwp89k2w Candidate pack for more info here: https://bsc.hacdn.io/media/documents/AI\Engineer\Candidate\Pack\Final.pdf The Opportunity This is an exciting time to join BSC. We are investing heavily to make us a digitally native organisation for the future of impact investing. A critical part of this is adopting and embedding AI across our work (there is equivalent work happening across data and IT). There are broadly three areas where we’ll apply an AI lens:
Our internal operations (everything from investment, to comms, to finance, workflows)
Our investment thesis (what should we be investing in in an AI native world)
The social impact ecosystem (how can we help others get up the AI curve faster and what can we build with the ecosystem) We are currently focussed on internal operations as the starting point. There are three buckets of work here:
AI Infrastructure – the foundation that everything sits on i.e. establishing and maintaining AI governance and onboarding/expanding ‘foundational’ AI tools across the organisation (e.g. Claude)
AI Academy – giving our team the mindset, knowledge, and behaviours to thrive in an AI native world (e.g. our AI speaker series, training programme, hackathons, etc.)
AI Innovation Lab - the prompts/Claude skills, automated AI workflows, agents, and products that we build for our team to raise the ceiling of what’s possible The AI team is a team of two (Head of AI and this role) and formally sits within the investment team (to be closer to the value we want to create), although in practice we sit between investment and a Transformation team with c.10 FTEs. Your work will be mainly around the AI Innovation Lab but is customisable based on your career goals. Every organisation will have to go through an AI transformation at some point and so this is a role that will be high value for the future. This position gives you the opportunity to play a significant role in that transformation. The learning curve will be steep but rewarding. What You Will Do • Bring deep AI technical expertise. Our Head of AI combines a strong understanding of BSC and investment with intermediate knowledge of technical foundations, statistics, and GenAI and agentic technologies. Your advanced technical capability will complement this experience, creating a powerful combination. • This is a ‘Swiss army knife’ role. You will have a broad remit of projects to work on that will require different skill sets across the entire lifecycle of a project. Recent/current projects include: o Automating screening workflows in our venture pipeline with AI o Evaluating/building a range of connectors via MCP for Claude o Creating agentic flows to help our engagement team discover new possible investors and tailor outreach for them o Creating our prompt and skill library with a particular focus on impact assessment (you can read about one of our experiments in this paper published by Stanford)\[KG2.1\]\[NA2.2\] o Working on data pipelines with AI (e.g. ingestion, verification) with our data team • Sit on our AI Taskforce and Technical Design Authority making key decisions about our AI strategy and execution, desired architecture, core agentic capabilities (e.g. what memory system to set up for our agents) AI tooling, etc. • Design and deliver initiatives to support our team to develop the mindset, knowledge, and behaviours to thrive in an AI native world (e.g. run hackathons) • Participate in at least one ‘BSC Citizenship’ activity, helping to make BSC a great place to work. This could be helping to organise our summer or winter social, joining the Staff Council or helping with health and safety
