Role overview
Acorn Insurance is looking for a Junior AI Engineer to join our AI Squad in Liverpool. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role centred on workflow automation. You'll be building and maintaining intelligent, event-driven workflows that directly improve how we operate.
If you're comfortable in the automation and integration space, enjoy solving practical problems with technology, and want to grow within a team that's serious about AI adoption, this role is for you.
You'll join a small, focused AI Squad working on real, high-impact problems across the business. We move quickly, build things ourselves, and care about doing it properly. There's genuine scope to grow as the team and its remit expands.
What you'll work on
- Design, build, and maintain automated workflows using n8n as your primary tool. This is the core of the role.
- Translate business requirements into well-structured, maintainable workflow logic, working closely with operational teams to understand their processes.
- Integrate n8n workflows with internal systems, APIs, and AI services (including LLMs) to create end-to-end automation solutions.
- Monitor, debug, and iterate on live workflows to ensure reliability and performance.
- Contribute to documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Complete a structured onboarding plan covering our tooling, delivery standards, and key integrations.
- Practical experience with workflow automation tools such as n8n, Make, Zapier, or similar. Hands-on n8n experience is a strong advantage.
- Comfort working with APIs (REST/webhook), JSON, and basic scripting in Python or JavaScript.
- A process-oriented mindset: you can look at a manual workflow and see how to automate it well.
- Attention to detail and a desire to build things that are clean, reliable, and easy to hand over.
- A willingness to learn and contribute in a fast-moving, delivery-focused environment.
Formal AI/ML credentials are not required. What matters is practical ability and the right approach.
Grow with Acorn
At Acorn Insurance, we’re proud of our Liverpool roots — and even prouder of how far we’ve come. As part of the Acorn Group, we bring over 40 years of specialist insurance expertise to the table. From humble beginnings, we’ve grown into a national leader, now employing 1,700+ people across the UK and reached a milestone £750 million in total value of insurance policies written in 2024.
We’re growing fast, with new opportunities emerging every week. That growth is largely due to the values we share:
- We run through walls for our customers and each other
- We challenge the status quo
- We succeed when we help those around us succeed
- We decide quickly when the smart thing to do is use our judgement