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Specialist Focus Areas
At Harnham, we specialize in the following key areas within Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML):
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- AI Architecture: Professionals who design and oversee the implementation of AI solutions.
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- AI Engineering: Delivering top-tier AI talent to drive innovation and success for your business.
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- Generative AI Engineering: Supplying expert talent to accelerate innovation and growth in your business.
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- ML Applied Data Science: Skilled machine learning professionals to fuel cutting-edge advancements.
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- Machine Learning Deployment: Data professionals deploying ML models efficiently and effectively in production environments.
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- Machine Learning Engineering: Consutlants with analytical abilities and practical experience developing and implementing machine learning models.
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- ML Ops: Bridging the gap between machine learning development and operational deployment, ensuring scalable, efficient, and reliable machine learning systems.
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- ML Platform Engineering: Developing, managing, and optimizing the platforms that underpin successful ML operations.
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- Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models: Navigate the complexities of Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model roles, ensuring we source candidates who are both highly skilled and a perfect fit for your organization.
WHY
HARNHAM?
Technical Expertise and Deep Industry Knowledge
With over 20 years of experience in the field, our team at Harnham is well-versed in the latest developments in AI and Machine Learning. We stay current with industry trends, technologies, and methodologies, ensuring we can source and place candidates who are proficient in advanced AI techniques such as neural networks, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and natural language processing. Our knowledge extends to various AI frameworks and tools like TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and Scikit-Learn, allowing us to accurately assess technical skills and match candidates to roles that require specialized expertise. Our Data & Artificial Intelligence Recruitment Agency leverages this expertise to connect businesses with top-tier AI talent.
Data-Driven Recruitment Process
Our recruitment process is underpinned by data-driven insights and analytics, which enable us to identify high-potential candidates quickly and efficiently. We use sophisticated AI-driven tools to analyze resumes, predict candidate success, and match the right talent to the right roles. This approach not only speeds up the hiring process but also increases the accuracy of our placements, ensuring a higher success rate for both candidates and clients.
Comprehensive Market Analysis and Talent Mapping
We provide in-depth market analysis and talent mapping services to help you understand the competitive landscape and the availability of key skills in the market. Our detailed reports offer insights into salary benchmarks, skill demand, and talent supply, enabling you to make informed decisions about your recruitment strategies. This comprehensive approach ensures you stay ahead in the competitive AI and ML talent market.
Global Network with Local Expertise
Our global reach allows us to tap into a vast pool of AI and ML talent across multiple regions, while our local market knowledge ensures we understand the specific recruitment dynamics of each area. This dual perspective enables us to deliver tailored recruitment solutions that meet both global standards and local requirements, ensuring a seamless fit for your organization.
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Permanent Recruitment
We specialize in identifying and securing long-term talent who will become integral members of your AI and ML teams. Our permanent recruitment solutions focus on finding professionals who align with your company’s culture and strategic goals, ensuring they make lasting contributions. As an artificial intelligence recruitment agency, we leverage our deep industry knowledge and technical expertise to match you with candidates who can drive your AI initiatives forward.
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Contract Recruitment
Our contract recruitment services offer the flexibility to scale your workforce according to project demands. We provide access to highly skilled AI and ML professionals for temporary or project-based engagements, allowing you to adapt quickly to changing needs. This approach ensures you have the right talent at the right time, supported by our vast network and extensive market insights.
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Executive Search
We conduct specialized searches for senior and executive-level roles in AI and ML, ensuring your leadership team has the vision and expertise to drive your strategic initiatives. Our executive search services focus on finding leaders who can transform your AI and ML capabilities. With over two decades of experience, our artificial intelligence recruitment agency has the recruitment expertise to identify and engage top-tier professionals for your executive team.
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Customized Talent Consulting
Beyond traditional recruitment, we offer customized talent consulting services to optimize your hiring strategies. Our services include:
- Talent Mapping: Identifying the ML skills and AI expertise available in the market.
- Competitive Analysis: Understanding how your recruitment strategies compare with industry standards.
- Strategic Workforce Planning: Developing a roadmap for future talent acquisition.
- Recruitment Strategy Development: Crafting bespoke strategies to attract and retain top AI and ML talent.
Our comprehensive approach ensures that your recruitment efforts are aligned with your business objectives and market demands.
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Partner with Harnham
Discover how Harnham’s specialized recruitment services can empower your AI and ML projects and enhance your organization’s capabilities. As a leading artificial intelligence recruitment agency, we offer tailored solutions designed to meet your strategic objectives. Contact us today to learn more about how we can support your AI and machine learning recruitment needs.
JOBS
LATEST AI and Machine Learning
JOBS
Data Coach
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Internal
PermanentLondon
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Data Coach
Looking to combine your passion for data with training and mentoring? This is an opportunity to help shape the next generation of data professionals while working across modern technologies including Data Engineering, AI, Cloud, and Analytics.
The Company
They specialise in developing and deploying data talent through a structured training and consulting model. With strong backing and continued growth, they are investing heavily in their learning capability, curriculum development, and technical expertise.
The Role
- Deliver technical training to graduate cohorts
- Create and improve learning content and curriculum
- Mentor and support learners throughout their development
- Run engaging workshops, projects, and technical sessions
- Contribute to training across Data Engineering, Cloud, AI, and Analytics
- Support capability building and continuous improvement initiatives
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience in Data Engineering, Data Science, or Analytics
- Experience teaching, coaching, training, or mentoring others
- Python and SQL expertise
- Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or Snowflake
- Understanding of AI, machine learning, or GenAI
- Exposure to DevOps and CI/CD practices
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
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AI Engineer
Amsterdam
€78000 - €78000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentAmsterdam, North Holland
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AI Engineer
Amsterdam, Netherlands | Up to €78,000 + Benefits
This is an opportunity to join a well-established international organisation investing heavily in AI and machine learning. You’ll play a key role in building production-grade AI products that deliver real business impact, working on solutions that move from concept through to deployment and ongoing optimisation.
The Company
They are a large, global organisation with a strong focus on technology, digital transformation, and data-driven decision-making. With significant investment in AI, they are building scalable products that support both customer-facing and internal business use cases. The environment combines the stability and resources of a mature enterprise with the pace and innovation of a modern product team.
The Role
Design, build, and deploy AI and machine learning products into production
Develop scalable backend services and APIs using Python
Build AI applications leveraging LLMs, agent frameworks, and traditional machine learning techniques
Work closely with data, engineering, and business teams to translate requirements into production-ready solutions
Implement testing, monitoring, and evaluation frameworks to ensure reliability and performance
Support deployment, CI/CD, and operational best practices across the AI product lifecycle
Your Skills & Experience
Minimum 3 years of commercial experience in AI Engineering, Machine Learning Engineering, or a similar role
Strong experience building and deploying AI products into production environments
Hands-on experience with both traditional machine learning and modern AI/LLM technologies
Strong Python engineering skills and experience developing APIs and backend services
Experience working within larger, enterprise-scale organisations and navigating complex stakeholder environments
Exposure to cloud platforms, containerisation, and modern software engineering practices
What They Offer
Salary up to €78,000
Strong bonus and benefits package
Opportunity to work on high-impact AI products used at scale
Career progression within a growing Data & AI function
Collaborative, international team environment
How to Apply
If you’re an AI Engineer with experience delivering production-ready AI and machine learning solutions within larger organisations, apply today to learn more about this opportunity.
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Data Scientist
London
£70000 - £90000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Data Science Engineer
London 2-3 days
Join a newly established R&D function building data-driven and AI-enabled products. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys combining Data Science and Data Engineering to create scalable data solutions with real business impact.
The Company
They are investing heavily in data and AI, with a small multidisciplinary team focused on building analytical products from concept through to production. You’ll work in a collaborative environment with plenty of ownership and exposure to cutting-edge technologies.
The Role
- Build scalable data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Databricks
- Develop machine learning solutions across forecasting, anomaly detection, recommendation systems, and information extraction
- Work with structured, semi-structured, and document-heavy datasets
- Create reusable data assets and analytical products
- Contribute to testing, APIs, CI/CD, and production deployments
- Partner with stakeholders to solve business challenges through data
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience across both Data Science and Data Engineering
- Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric and Databricks
- Advanced Python and SQL skills, with PySpark desirable
- Experience building data pipelines and machine learning models
- Knowledge of NLP, entity resolution, or document processing is advantageous
- Strong communication skills and commercial awareness
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Data Engineer
London
£400 - £420
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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*** Data Engineer ***
I’m partnered with a leading organisation that’s looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join their Data Platform team on an initial 6-month contract, working across a major GCP data platform programme.
Rate: £400-420 per day, Inside IR35
Location: London – Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite
Duration: 6 months
The role will focus on GCP, BigQuery, Python, Airflow/Cloud Composer, dbt, Terraform and CI/CD, working closely with architects, engineers, product and governance teams to deliver secure, scalable data solutions.
Key experience:
- GCP & BigQuery
- Python, Airflow & dbt
- Terraform & CI/CD
- Data platforms / lakehouse environments
- Kubernetes
- AWS alongside GCP
- Strong stakeholder management
If this sounds relevant to you, please drop me a message or send your CV
Thanks,
Callum
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Generative AI Support Specialist
New York
$70 - $75
+ Data Science & AI
ContractNew York
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Generative AI Support Specialist
New York City, NY | 3 days onsite
This is a unique opportunity to join an enterprise organization at a pivotal stage in its AI journey. As Generative AI Support Specialist, you will act as the technical expert for enterprise AI platforms, helping users unlock value from advanced AI capabilities while supporting the evolution from chatbot usage to sophisticated multi-agent workflows, automation, and business integrations.
The Company
They are a well-established organization investing heavily in Generative AI adoption across the business. With a growing user base and increasing demand for advanced AI capabilities, they are looking for a technically strong specialist to support users, drive best practices, and help shape the future of AI-enabled ways of working. You will work closely with both technical and business stakeholders to maximize the impact of enterprise AI tools.
The Role and Deliverables
- Serve as the primary escalation point for complex ChatGPT and AI platform support requests.
- Coach users on prompt engineering, model selection, AI workflows, custom GPTs, integrations, connectors, and emerging AI capabilities.
- Administer and support the enterprise AI environment, including workspace configuration, user management, analytics, and troubleshooting.
- Partner with business teams to understand requirements and recommend practical AI-enabled solutions.
- Develop playbooks, documentation, adoption materials, feature guides, and governance-related content.
- Analyse recurring issues, identify improvement opportunities, and help drive greater AI adoption across the organization.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT Enterprise or Claude.
- Demonstrated capability in prompt engineering and designing advanced AI workflows.
- Technical foundation in Data Science, Machine Learning, Analytics, or a related discipline.
- Comfortable working with Python, Markdown, APIs, automation tools, or technical integrations.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a methodical approach to diagnosing issues.
- Ability to translate business challenges into practical AI solutions.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with a customer-focused mindset.
- Comfortable working independently, managing multiple priorities, and operating in a fast-moving environment.
- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms or AI products is highly beneficial.
- Familiarity with emerging areas such as AI agents, workflow orchestration, and enterprise AI governance is advantageous.
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QA Engineer
London
£70000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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QA Automation Engineer
UP TO £75,000
London/Hybrid
The Overview
This is an opportunity to join a growing technology business where quality engineering is a key part of product development. You’ll play a central role in building scalable test automation, reducing manual testing, and helping shape an AI-enabled approach to software quality within a modern engineering environment.
The Company
They are a fast-growing technology business developing a sophisticated digital platform that helps users make more informed financial decisions. Their engineering teams work in cross-functional squads, combining product, engineering, and quality expertise to deliver high-impact solutions. With a strong focus on innovation, they are investing heavily in automation, AI-enabled workflows, and engineering best practices.
The Role
You will be responsible for driving test automation across web applications, APIs, and backend services while helping improve the overall quality engineering strategy.
Responsibilities include:
- Designing, building, and maintaining automated testing frameworks
- Creating automated tests for web applications and API services
- Supporting quality assurance across frontend and backend systems
- Performing regression, functional, and smoke testing
- Collaborating closely with Product Managers, Developers, and QA colleagues to ensure solutions are testable and scalable
- Using AI tools to improve testing efficiency, accelerate development cycles, and reduce repetitive manual work
- Contributing to CI/CD processes and quality gates within the software delivery lifecycle
- Supporting the development of a robust automation architecture that can scale with platform growth
- Helping improve data quality validation and testing processes
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience with Java or Kotlin
- Experience building automated testing solutions from scratch or significantly enhancing existing frameworks
- Strong API testing experience using tools such as Rest Assured, Postman, or similar
- Experience testing JSON and XML payloads
- UI automation experience with Selenium, Playwright, or comparable tools
- Understanding of software testing principles, automation frameworks, and quality engineering best practices
- Experience working with Jira and Agile delivery environments
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
- Comfortable working across both frontend and backend systems
- Experience using AI tools within an engineering workflow
- Exposure to Claude and N8N is highly desirable
- Familiarity with SQL and data validation techniques
What They Offer
- Competitive salary
- Potential equity review following successful completion of probation
- 25 days annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
- Hybrid working
- Work-from-home equipment provided on request
- Enhanced parental leave policies
- Study support and dedicated time for learning
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Electric car scheme
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Gym benefit
- Mental health and wellbeing support
- Regular seasonal and team social events
- Opportunity to influence automation strategy and AI-enabled quality engineering practices
- Clear scope for professional growth within a scaling technology business
How to Apply
If you’re passionate about automation, modern QA practices, and AI-driven engineering, I’d love to hear from you. Apply with your latest CV to be considered.
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QA Automation Engineer
London
£75000 - £75000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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QA Automation Engineer
London (Hybrid, 2 days per week) | £75,000 + Benefits
Looking for a QA role where automation and AI are at the heart of engineering? This is an opportunity to join a growing technology business building a sophisticated data platform, where you’ll help shape the future of quality engineering and create scalable automation from the ground up.
The Company
A fast-growing technology business developing a data-driven platform that helps users gain a clearer view of complex financial information. Working in Agile squads, they are investing heavily in automation, AI-assisted development, and modern engineering practices as they continue to scale.
The Role
You will be responsible for driving automated testing across a web platform and backend services, helping ensure quality, reliability, and performance while reducing manual testing.
- Key responsibilities include:
- Building and maintaining automated test frameworks
- Creating UI and API test coverage across frontend and backend systems
- Supporting regression testing for platform enhancements and integrations
- Ensuring data accuracy and quality across complex systems
- Leveraging AI tools to accelerate testing, debugging, and test creation
- Contributing to CI/CD processes and quality best practices
- Collaborating closely with product and engineering teams
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience with Java or Kotlin
- Experience with API testing using tools such as Rest Assured or Postman
- UI automation experience using Selenium, Playwright, or similar
- Strong understanding of JSON, XML, APIs, and backend testing
- Experience building automation frameworks and strategies
- Familiarity with Jira and CI/CD environments
- Active use of AI tools within your engineering workflow, including Claude and N8N
- Passion for reducing manual effort through automation
What They Offer
- Salary up to £75,000
- Hybrid working with 2 days per week in the London office
- Private healthcare
- Pension contribution
- 25 days holiday
- Wellbeing support and regular team socials
- Opportunity to influence automation strategy and AI adoption
- Applicants must have full UK working rights. Sponsorship is not available.
How to Apply
To find out more about this QA Automation Engineer opportunity, apply today.
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
London
£90000 - £100000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior Machine Learning Scientist – REMOTE
This is an opportunity to join a high-growth AI SaaS business using NLP and GenAI to transform unstructured customer feedback into actionable business insights. You’ll work at the intersection of Machine Learning research and production, developing models that directly influence customer experience and commercial outcomes.
The Company
They are an AI-focused technology company helping organisations unlock value from large-scale customer feedback data. With strong growth, expanding enterprise clients, and significant investment in AI, they are building innovative NLP and LLM-powered products that drive measurable business impact.
The Role
You will develop and deploy advanced NLP and GenAI solutions across the full ML lifecycle.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and improve models for information extraction, retrieval, re-ranking, and sentiment analysis.
- Fine-tune language models and optimise LLM performance.
- Design and evaluate experiments to improve product outcomes.
- Develop production-ready machine learning solutions.
- Work with agentic AI systems and modern NLP architectures.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in Machine Learning and NLP.
- Hands-on experience fine-tuning language models and working with LLMs.
- Knowledge of GenAI and agentic AI patterns.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets.
- Understanding of model deployment and productionisation.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- A practical approach to solving real-world business problems.
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Senior Data Scientist
London
£500 - £600
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Senior Data Scientist (Contract)
London (Hybrid or Remote)
This is an opportunity to join an early-stage AI business tackling a complex, real-world data challenge. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will take ownership of building production-ready classification and inference models across large industrial datasets, helping establish modelling standards and best practices from the ground up.
The Company
They are an AI-focused organisation developing a data-driven understanding of global industrial systems. Their work combines advanced data science, machine learning, and domain expertise to create structured intelligence from complex, fragmented datasets. Operating at an early stage, they offer the chance to have a direct impact on both technical direction and product development.
The Role and Deliverables
- Profile, explore, and assess complex industrial datasets, including facilities, supply chains, and product information.
- Establish robust modelling foundations through baseline creation, evaluation set design, and metric definition.
- Build and deploy production classification models and matching or inference models.
- Measure, document, and communicate model performance, including error rates and error analysis.
- Apply LLMs appropriately for tasks such as extraction, constrained labelling, and code generation, supported by rigorous evaluation frameworks.
- Contribute independent technical judgement and help define modelling standards within the organisation.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience building and deploying machine learning models into production environments where accuracy and reliability are critical.
- Advanced Python skills, including hands-on experience with pandas and scikit-learn.
- Strong statistical reasoning and a structured approach to model evaluation and validation.
- Ability to clearly explain model performance, evaluation methodology, and known failure modes.
- Experience designing and maintaining evaluation frameworks for machine learning models.
- Experience building LLM-powered workflows with genuine evaluation and monitoring processes is highly desirable.
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of ownership.
How to Apply
If you are a hands-on Senior Data Scientist with proven experience delivering production machine learning solutions, apply today to discuss this contract opportunity in more detail.
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We’ve been collaborating with Harnham to recruit some key positions for our company, and they have been incredible partners. They team has been great and efficient. They understood our needs perfectly and provided us very talented candidates. We'll keep collaborating with them in the future. Thank you for your excellent job!
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The team at Harnham have been outstanding in helping our company build a market-leading data science team. Harnham’s communication is great, and the recruiter’s take a consultative approach that’s really focused on provided value for both their clients and their candidates. They provide strong candidates that help us fill our roles with high achievers who are also a great fit for our culture.
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