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AI Engineer — Internal Tools & Automation
The AI Engineering team acts as an internal catalyst. We identify where the business is slow, build tools to fix it, and move on. Our work spans Customer Success, Exchange Operations, Trading, and Custody — wherever there's friction worth eliminating.
This isn't a research role. We ship fast, measure impact, and iterate. You'll spend more time prototyping with LLMs and building agentic workflows than writing infrastructure, but you'll own what you build all the way to production.
What You'll Do
- Partner with a business counterpart to identify and scope operational bottlenecks, then build the tools to fix them
- Move autonomously across the organization: gather requirements, secure data access, and earn the trust of teams you're helping
- Ship quickly using whatever fits: n8n, Make, Zapier, Lovable, or custom Python. Right tool for the right job.
- Build and maintain production AI systems: RAG pipelines, conversational interfaces, workflow automation, internal agents
- Run workshops and training sessions to help non-technical teams actually use what you build
- Define metrics upfront, track them, and tell the story of what changed
What We're Looking For
We care more about what you've shipped than where you worked. Show us:
- A portfolio of things you've built. Personal projects, side tools, public demos, anything you can point at. GitHub, a writeup, a Loom walkthrough, a live URL. All count.
- Evidence you move fast with LLMs. You've run multiple coding agents in parallel and know how to coordinate between them. You have a feel for how capable frontier models actually are, and you match model intelligence to task complexity rather than defaulting to the biggest one every time.
- Production instincts. You've dealt with the gap between "it works in the demo" and "it works at 3am when nobody's watching." Evals, error handling, observability. You've thought about this.
- A process-driven mindset. You document how things work before someone asks you to. Your SOPs and checklists aren't overhead — they're how you stay sharp and move fast without dropping things.
- You've always had ideas. Now you can ship them. AI coding agents removed the bottleneck that used to sit between your thinking and working software. You don't wait for an engineer to build what you've already figured out.
- Communication that closes the gap. You can translate what you built into terms that matter to the business partner who asked for it.
- Formal experience: 5+ years in a role where you shipped tools that people actually used.
Reasons to use Rodeo
I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.
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Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
Why you're a good match
StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with vector databases (Qdrant, Pinecone, pgvector)
- Familiarity with SQL and relational databases so you can pull your own data
- Docker / containerization basics
- Any exposure to blockchain or trading concepts (we'll teach you what you need)


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