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As a Graduate Research & Development Engineer, you’ll use your creative and technical skills to get your ideas turned into real products, services and standards. You’ll work across a broad range of areas and projects – from developing tools to create new forms of content, right through to helping programmes like Springwatch automate how they detect animal activity.

What you’ll get

During the Graduate scheme

  • A starting salary of £29,700 and potential pay increases.
  • A flexible 35-hour working week, 26 days of annual leave days (with the option to buy an extra 5 days), and a defined pension scheme.
  • Discounted dental, health care, gym and much more.  
  • A dedicated Team Manager and Scheme Specialist to help with your development.
  • Professional Coaching and Mentoring by industry professionals.
  • Access to our in-house Academy, which hosts a range of internal and external courses.

At the end of the scheme

  • A three-month mini placement in another area of the BBC.
  • Promotion to R&D Engineer, subject to good performance.
  • Help applying to become a chartered engineer.
  • The chance to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the BBC.

Main Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

  • Contribute ideas and decide which issues we solve, as well as devising elegant and creative solutions to existing problems.
  • Publish your work through blog posts and academic papers, and share your enthusiasm at outreach events like TeenTech and the Big Bang fair.
  • Work on three eight-month projects with support from our scientific and engineering experts,  including four weeks of residential courses at the BBC Academy Training Centre at Wood Norton.
  • And you may have the option of studying for an MSc or PhD, in addition to collaborating with industry and academia within the UK and abroad.

Are you the right candidate?

To be eligible for this role, you must:

  • Have atleast a 2:1 degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, HCI, UX, interaction design, Data Science, Physics, Mathematics or a closely related subject, or an environmental science degree with a strong quantitative or programming element, or equivalent experience.
  • Be legally allowed to work in the UK

You’ll need to show your understanding of and skills in:

  • The technology it takes to produce our TV, radio, online and mobile services
  • Delivering projects across software engineering, data science, sustainability or behavioural science
  • Communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences
  • Application areas including cloud services, IP networking, machine learning, audio, video, sustainability and using our equipment, software and systems to build a low-energy future.

Don’t worry if you don’t have an extensive CV

You can share examples of your passion for electronic engineering, software development, UX or sustainability from anywhere. That might be other work experience, your time in education or volunteering.

If you’d like support with your application because you have a learning difficulty or disability, please select the Extend Hub in the application and we can help.

About the BBC

We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours in the document attached below.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.