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We sit inside Platforms & Music, and our job is to turn the scale of Moonbug's business across shows like CoComelon, Blippi, Little Angel and Morphle into things the whole company can use: data, tools and AI systems that take on real tasks.\nWe don't build one kind of thing. In any given week the team might ship a data pipeline, stand up a dashboard, prototype a AI workflow, automate a manual process, or build an operational tool that a whole department ends up relying on. What ties it together is the stack rather than the output: large language model (LLM) agents, retrieval and knowledge systems, analytical data infrastructure (we run heavily on ClickHouse and BigQuery), and tooling built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which lets AI agents connect to the systems we actually use.\nWe're a small team that ships fast and prototypes in days rather than weeks. Rough but working beats polished and untested.\nAbout the Program\nThis is a graduate program for people at the start of their career, whether you're coming straight out of a degree or deliberately changing track into tech and data. We hire for attitude first. We'd rather take someone entrepreneurial, curious and quick to figure things out than someone who ticks every technical box on paper but waits to be told what to do.\nWe're also not looking to hire five of the same person. The team has a mix of strengths and we want the program to reflect that. Some people who join us will lean toward software engineering. Others will head for data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, BI and analytics, security, or building AI agents specifically. If one of those disciplines excites you and you want to go deep, that's a great fit. If you're a generalist who wants a bit of everything, that works too. What matters is the energy and drive you bring to whatever you pick up.\nWhat you'll actually be doing\nWorking on AI agent tooling: building and integrating connectors that let AI agents reach more of the systems and data sources across the business.\nRapidly prototyping internal tools: taking a rough idea (a dashboard, an alert, an agent that automates something manual) from sketch to working demo in days, not weeks.\nTurning manual processes into reusable tools: spotting repetitive, one-off work across teams and building a lightweight fix, whether that's a script, an internal app or an AI agent.\nWorking directly with data pipelines: querying and validating data in our warehouse and document stores, helping debug ingestion issues, and building lightweight data quality tooling.\nPrototyping and iterating on AI agents: contributing to pieces like extraction logic, evaluation harnesses, and guardrail and access-control checks, under the team's guidance rather than owning a full production system solo.\nRequirements\nWhat we're looking for\nWe care far more about how you think and work than about ticking every box below, but there is a baseline we're looking for:\nCore ability\nComfortable reading and writing code, with Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript the most useful to us, and enough fundamentals to debug something rather than accept whatever a tool hands you.\nSolid SQL fundamentals (joins, aggregations, window functions). A lot of our work sits on top of a data warehouse, so this matters whichever discipline you lean toward.\nSome familiarity with git and version control, and an instinct for keeping your work reproducible rather than stuck on your local machine.\nComfort with modern AI tooling\nHands-on experience building with AI coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor. It doesn't need to be professional experience; side projects and scrappy builds count.\nEnough prompt engineering knowledge to get reliable output, and the judgement to check AI-generated work for correctness and mistakes rather than shipping it blind\nFamiliarity with concepts like embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), vector search, agents and context windows.\nGood to have, not required\nA basic sense of how data warehousing works\nAwareness of API integration patterns and the basics of OAuth and access control\nInterest in or experience with the YouTube platform and its APIs, or with music and rights data. 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