AI ML Trainee – 6-Month Fixed-Term Contract

The AI ML Trainee role is a short, paid-contract position within NatWest Digital X, the technology arm of NatWest Group. The contract runs for six months, full-time at 45 hours a week, working alongside experienced engineers to build and maintain software solutions.

What you'll do

• Build and look after secure, fast and reliable software that puts customers first
• Work inside a feature team on software, scripts and tooling, talking regularly with engineers, architects and business analysts
• Deliver important code quickly without letting quality slip
• Design, write, test and release working code, owning it from first idea to day-to-day operation
• Share ideas with colleagues to raise the team's overall engineering standard

What they ask for

• Open to 2025 and 2026 graduates
• CS and software engineering basics
• Strong hands-on Python including OOP and modular code
• Knowledge of data structures and algorithms
• Conceptual grasp of AI/ML models, training, inference, and data
• Familiarity with version control, testing, and debugging
• Must enter your GitHub ID score along with your name in the application form
• Excludes graduates of NatWest partner colleges

Good to have

• Some exposure to Generative AI
• Large language models
• AI agents or agentic AI

Open the official NatWest job page, click apply, fill in your details, and enter your GitHub ID score together with your name in the form before submitting.

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Technical

1. How do you implement object-oriented programming principles like inheritance and encapsulation in Python?
2. What is the difference between model training and inference in machine learning pipelines?
3. How would you approach solving a data structures problem involving arrays or strings efficiently?

Scenario

1. What would you do if a machine learning model you are working with shows signs of severe overfitting during training?
2. How would you handle a situation where a piece of code you wrote fails tests right before a deployment deadline?

HR

1. Why are you interested in a short-term 6-month contract role at NatWest?
2. How do you manage your time when balancing multiple software development tasks within a 45-hour work week?

About NatWest Group

1. How does NatWest Digital X leverage technology to support the broader banking and financial services of NatWest Group?

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