Junior AI Engineer (Part-time)

Junior AI Engineer (Part-time)

📍 Location: Bournemouth (at least 1 day working in-office)

⏰ Hours: Part-time, 2-3 days per week (flexible scheduling — we’ll work around your course or exam timetable if you’re studying)

💰 Salary: From £13 per hour (depending on experience)

Join a Mission, Not Just a Team

At 3 SIDED CUBE, we’re all about building tech for good. We’ve created award-winning apps and digital products that truly make a difference. Now, we’re diving into the AI space to become an ‘AI-first company’. This means we’re changing the way we build, think, and innovate - starting from the inside out. And guess what? We want you to be a part of this mission! 🚀

If you’re an aspiring AI enthusiast who loves experimenting, building, and wants hands-on experience working directly with leadership on real projects, we’d love to hear from you!

We’re looking for someone who’s early in their AI journey but already building, experimenting, and thinking critically about how AI can be used in the real world. You might not have years of experience, but you’ve got curiosity, initiative, and the technical or creative ability to bring ideas to life.

What You’ll Be Doing 👩‍💻👨‍💻

• Working closely with our CEO on AI-driven internal innovation projects

• Experimenting with the latest AI/ML models and techniques

• Building usable, functional software that solves real business challenges

• Applying creative problem-solving and taking ownership of projects

Who You Are 🧩

This role might be perfect for someone currently studying or recently graduated, but we encourage anyone with the right skills and availability to apply!

• Experienced coder: At least 5 years of coding experience and comfortable shipping code that gets used

• Background in software engineering (e.g., computer science, machine learning) or design/UX with a focus on integrating or experimenting with AI

• Skilled in Python or JavaScript and familiar with modern frameworks and tooling

• Love tinkering and learning new things - whether it’s setting up a RAG system, fine-tuning a model, or exploring ethical AI challenges

• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools like OpenAI, Hugging Face, Langchain, etc.

• Proactive and curious in a fast-paced environment

• Local to Bournemouth and able to work from our office 2–3 days a week

• Comfortable with ambiguity, open to feedback, and excited to collaborate on early-stage AI projects

What We Offer

• 🏡 Flexibility at its Best – Hybrid working with flexible hours and bank holidays

• 🏖️ Time to Recharge – 23 days of holiday 

• 💸 Company Pension Scheme – Salary sacrifice option up to 10%, with Cube contributing up to 8%

• 🧠 Wellbeing Support – Unlimited access to the OpenUp platform

• 🐾 Vibrant Workspace – Fun, relaxed, pet-friendly office with an excellent coffee machine, various monthly events and free parking

• 🎉 Social Events & Celebrations – Regular team activities, remote and in-person events, beach cleans and monthly Company Friday lunches on us

This role is perfect for someone who wants to gain real-world experience applying AI in a practical, design-led environment where innovation isn’t just encouraged, it’s expected. AI is going to enhance how we ideate, build, and deliver impact. We’re looking for someone who wants to help shape that future with us so if that’s you, apply now!

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DEI at Cube

3 Sided Cube is an Equal Opportunity Employer and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences and backgrounds, who all share a passion for making the world a better place. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, and any other aspect which makes us unique. We can’t change millions of lives for the better without celebrating the diversity of those lives, and fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce within 3 Sided Cube is one of the ways in which we do that.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please reach out to us about potential reasonable adjustments.