Multiverse opens Edinburgh tech hub

Multiverse has opened a new tech hub in Edinburgh and appointed Colin Mackenzie (pictured) as its first vice president of artificial intelligence (AI) engineering. 

Mackenzie previously led engineering teams at Amazon, Virgin Money and Clydesdale Bank, and will oversee the hub’s growth while developing agentic products. 

Multiverse will create 200 jobs over the next year across its Edinburgh and London offices.

Mackenzie said: “AI is changing how people work faster than they can retrain for it, and without equitable access to AI skills a lot of people get displaced and left behind. 

“We need to innovate at pace to solve this problem, and thankfully Scotland has the world-class AI talent required to help us do it. 

“When we get it right, we change lives at a national scale.”

Multiverse will launch an internal upskilling model, pairing junior AI engineers with senior leaders for on-the-job learning. 

This will sit alongside its AI product and data engineering apprenticeships, helping to equip more of the workforce with practical AI skills.