Research Assistant UX/Interaction Designer BigLook Project
ADAPT CentreLevel: Research Assistant
Posted: May 15, 2026
Location: ADAPT Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin
Duration: 3 months specific purpose contract
Reports to: Prof Carl Vogel & Mr Conor Mc Nally
Salary: Minimum wage
Closing Date: June 5, 2026
BigLook is a commercialisation project at Trinity College Dublin, embedded within the ADAPT Centre. The project is focused on developing a "System of Work" for the global art market, orchestrated by a sophisticated multi agent AI system. The Biglook platform features a suite of autonomous AI agents that leverage our foundational, domain specific Large Multimodal Model (LMM) to reason, plan, and execute complex workflows across the art ecosystem.
Responsibilities- AI Dataset pre processing tasks - review large dataset of CC0 images and carry out batch operations on audited subsets to normalise the data for model training.
- Support the maintenance of a documented design system that will be utilised for the generation of screens for various workflows.
- Mock screenflows using AI assisted design tools and processes.
- Visual testing of screens and logging of issues.
- Manual content population of art catalogues for pilot projects.
- Undergraduate studying UX/Interaction Design (ideal).
- Experience with Photoshop and Figma (essential).
- Experience with AI assisted design tools such as Claude Design (essential).
- Knowledge and familiarity with the history of art (definite advantage).
- Prior experience working with large visual datasets (definite advantage).
This is a hybrid 3 month specific purpose research assistant position. Candidates must be available to work on site in the ADAPT Centre in Trinity College Dublin as required.