Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Engineer; KTP Associate

This KTP will develop and embed advanced artificial intelligence capabilities that transform the way R&B Switchgear operates, interprets technical documentation and delivers engineering projects.

The project will create innovative AI systems capable of analysing complex engineering information across visual and text-based sources. These solutions will increase efficiency, improve consistency and streamline time-intensive engineering and operational activities.

By embedding AI technologies throughout the estimation workflow, R&B expects to significantly improve operational efficiency, increase capacity and establish a competitive advantage within the electrical engineering sector. The project will also create new organisational capabilities in artificial intelligence, data engineering, safe AI and digital automation.

• A graduate with a minimum 2.1 BEng/BSc in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning or a related subject.
• Knowledge and demonstrable experience applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems.
• Experience in computer vision, natural language processing and large language models.
• Experience of developing, testing and deploying machine learning models.
• Understanding of data engineering, software development and AI deployment practices.
• Experience of Safe AI, cybersecurity or regulated environments would be advantageous.

This KTP will develop a secure, explainable AI system that automatically reads, interprets and converts SLDs and specifications into accurate Bills of Materials and costed quotations, automating the SLD-to-quotation process. The innovation lies in combining computer vision, natural language processing and large language models into a single multimodal reasoning engine that can understand drawings and text together, supported by explainability to show how engineering decisions were made and secure by design deployment appropriate for regulated sectors.

R&B Switchgear Services Ltd is a UK-based manufacturer and service provider specialising in low voltage (LV) switch gear and power distribution systems used in hospitals, data centres, marine vessels and industrial environments. Founded in 1985, it has grown into an international group under R&B Switchgear Holdings Ltd, with operations in Manchester (manufacturing headquarters), Scotland, the USA, Singapore and a global Marine Maintenance division.