Junior Researcher

Digital Skills is working with a global news and media corporation developing technology to support investigative journalism. The role helps build tools and infrastructure for journalists to ingest, search, and understand complex datasets, including AI-enabled newsroom technology such as LLM pipelines and MCP agents.

Responsibilities:

• Support the ingestion and processing of large datasets
• Help maintain stable and reliable data pipelines
• Build and enhance tools that allow journalists to search data and identify relevant entities, relationships and connections
• Build and integrate LLM pipelines and MCP agents into editorial workflows
• Work with journalists to understand their editorial objectives and translate them into practical technology solutions
• Produce clear, tested and maintainable code
• Contribute to tools used in real investigative journalism projects