Who we are
Euromonitor International is a global leader in data, analytics, and market intelligence. Organisations around the world rely on us to understand industries, consumers, and economies — and to make confident, strategic decisions based on high‑quality insight.
We’re now building a new AI & R&D function to shape the next generation of intelligence products and internal tooling.
This is your chance to join at the earliest stage and influence the entire direction of our AI strategy.
Why This Role Is Exciting
You’ll join as the first Lead AI Engineer in our Vilnius hub, helping define how we build, deploy, and scale AI across the organisation.
This role is perfect for someone who wants:
- Big ownership over architecture, experimentation, and direction
- To work on LLMs, agentic systems, RAG workflows, and model fine‑tuning
- To move fast, test ideas, and turn prototypes into real, scalable products
- A mix of hands‑on technical work + high-level influence
- A role that actually offers creativity, problem‑solving and innovation
You’ll sit at the intersection of AI research, engineering, and product, working with data scientists, software engineers, and business leaders across the world.
What you will be doing
- Lead the design and execution of AI experiments, prototypes, and R&D initiatives
- Build and evaluate LLM‑based systems: RAG pipelines, fine‑tuned models, agentic workflows
- Write clean, high‑quality Python code and reusable components
- Develop frameworks for model evaluation, experimentation, and automation
- Collaborate with engineering teams to bring prototypes closer to production
- Explore vector databases, embeddings, prompt strategies, and retrieval optimisation
- Stay ahead of emerging trends in generative AI, LLMs, multi‑agent systems, and applied ML
- Mentor junior engineers and help develop our AI engineering culture
- Communicate insights, technical decisions, and recommendations to diverse audiences
Requirements
What we're looking for:
- Strong experience building real AI/ML models in Python
- Deep understanding of LLMs, RAG architectures, fine‑tuning, and NLP
- Hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, and modern ML tooling
- Experience designing prototypes, POCs, or internal AI tools
- Comfortable working with vector stores, embeddings, and prompt engineering
- Strong experimentation mindset: iterate fast, learn fast
- Excellent communication and collaborative working style
- Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure) and MLOps concepts
Nice to have
- Experience leading or mentoring small teams
What you'll get form us:
- Be a pioneer: Join a brand-new AI team and become one of the first engineers shaping its future
- Flexibility: Enjoy flexible working hours and a hybrid setup
- Global exposure: Work with stakeholders across multiple offices worldwide
- Cutting-edge tech: Experiment with emerging AI technologies, including LLMs and innovative approaches
- Collaboration: Partner with diverse teams and contribute to exciting, high-impact projects
The salary range for this position is between €5,000 and €6,500 / month gross.
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Benefits
Why work for Euromonitor?
Our Values:
We seek individuals who act with integrity
We look for candidates who are curious about the world
We feel that as a community, we’re stronger together
We seek to enable people to feel empowered
We welcome candidates who bring strength in diversity
International: not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office but we communicate across our 16 offices worldwide on a daily basis.
Hardworking and sociable: our staff know how to work hard and know also how to enjoy themselves! We pride ourselves on creating an appropriate work-life balance, with flexible hours and regular socialising including frequent after work meet ups, summer and Christmas parties and a whole range of other groups to be involved with.
Committed to making a difference: We believe that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Programme gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It gives all new starters a donation amount on joining us which they can give to a charity of their choice.
It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights.
Excellent benefits: we offer competitive salaries, enhanced healthcare and pensions, plus generous holiday allowances, hybrid working and, in many offices, a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day.
Opportunities to grow: we offer extensive training and development opportunities at all levels. The vast majority of our Managers and Directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Euromonitor International does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability and genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, or other non-merit factor.
Top Skills
What We Do
Euromonitor International is the world's leading independent provider of strategic market research. With a global network of analysts and market research on every key trend and driver, Euromonitor's market research reports empower organisations and brands of all sizes with strategic data, analysis, and consumer trends in a single, affordable resource.
