AI & MACHINE LEARNING
TALENT SOLUTIONS
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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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SERVICES
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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
Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London
£100000 - £180000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Growth and Product Analytics Lead
London (Office-based – 5 days per week)
Salary: Up to £180,000 + Excellent Benefits
A high-growth technology business is looking for a Growth Analytics Lead to join, working directly with the CEO and senior leadership team to drive strategic, data-led decision making.
This is a rare opportunity for a commercially minded analytics leader to own the insights behind growth, product and go-to-market strategy. Rather than producing reports or dashboards, you’ll identify opportunities, build solutions, influence business decisions and measure their impact.
What you’ll be doing
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Own analytics across product, commercial and growth initiatives
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Identify opportunities to improve customer activation, adoption and retention
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Deliver insights on pricing, monetisation and expansion opportunities
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Design and analyse product experiments
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Build robust analytics using SQL, dbt and modern data platforms
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Translate complex data into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders
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Partner closely with leadership to shape company strategy
What we’re looking for
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Strong experience in Growth, Product or Commercial Analytics
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Hands-on technical skills with SQL and modern analytics tools
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Proven ability to influence commercial outcomes through data
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Experience within a high-growth SaaS or technology environment
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
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Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
What’s on offer
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Salary up to £180,000
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Comprehensive benefits package
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Direct exposure to the CEO and executive leadership
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Significant ownership and autonomy
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Opportunity to shape the growth strategy of a rapidly scaling technology business
If you’re a commercially focused analytics professional who enjoys solving complex business problems and wants to make a measurable impact in a high-growth environment, we’d love to hear from you.
Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Azure Cloud Engineer
Birmingham
£50000 - £60000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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Azure Cloud Engineer
Up to £60,000
Oxfordshire (Hybrid – 1 day per week)
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of designing and delivering cloud infrastructure within a fully Azure-native environment.
THE COMPANY:
This is a consultancy-led technology business delivering innovative cloud and AI-driven solutions across multiple industries. The organisation partners closely with clients to deliver complex transformation programmes with real, measurable outcomes. The business operates at the intersection of consulting and technology, combining deep domain expertise with modern cloud engineering to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth across its client base.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of Azure cloud architecture and engineering across the business, acting as the technical authority within a small but highly impactful cloud function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure
- Acting as a subject matter expert, providing architectural guidance and solution design
- Supporting internal consultants with cloud solutioning and infrastructure recommendations
- Building and managing cloud resources (VMs, SQL Servers, Web Apps, Docker environments)
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Driving a code-first approach with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
- Leading on cloud integrations, including Azure Integration Services
- Supporting governance, security, compliance, backup, and recovery processes
- Contributing to AI-driven and innovation-focused internal projects
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting technical standards across the team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering and architecture
- Designing scalable, secure cloud solutions end-to-end
- Infrastructure-as-Code (ideally Bicep or Terraform)
- Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
- Cloud automation using PowerShell and Azure CLI
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Security, governance, and compliance within cloud environments
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £60,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Principal Data Scientist
$200000 - $220000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Principal Data Scientist
Remote | Salary up to $220,000 + 15% bonus
This is an opportunity to step into a senior, high-impact Principal Data Scientist role where you will shape the direction of advanced AI and data science initiatives at scale. You will work on commercially meaningful problems, leveraging cutting-edge techniques including generative AI, while influencing both strategy and delivery across a globally recognised platform.
The Company
They are a well-established, innovation-led organisation focused on delivering data-driven products at scale. With a strong investment in AI and advanced analytics, they partner closely across product, engineering, and design to create impactful, user-focused solutions. Their teams are highly collaborative and operate in a modern, fully remote environment that encourages autonomy and technical excellence.
The Role
- Lead the design and implementation of advanced data science and AI solutions aligned to business objectives
- Provide technical leadership across complex projects, setting direction and best practice for modelling and deployment
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities and define requirements
- Apply generative AI and other advanced methodologies to solve real-world problems
- Translate technical findings into clear, actionable insights for senior stakeholders
- Oversee project timelines and ensure successful delivery across multiple workstreams
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience in data science and machine learning, with recognised expertise in a specialist area
- Deep understanding of production-level AI systems and recent exposure to generative AI techniques
- Proven ability to lead complex projects end to end, from concept through to deployment
- Experience working cross-functionally with product, engineering, or business teams
- Clear and collaborative communication style, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Background in a quantitative or technical field such as Data Science, AI, Mathematics, or similar
What They Offer
- Salary up to $220,000 with a 15% performance bonus
- Fully remote working with flexibility and autonomy
- Opportunity to work on high-impact AI initiatives at scale
- Collaborative, forward-thinking technical environment
- Clear scope for progression into broader technical or strategic leadership roles
How to Apply
If you’re interested in exploring this Principal Data Scientist opportunity, apply now for a confidential discussion.

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Azure Cloud Engineer
Birmingham
£50000 - £60000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentBirmingham, West Midlands
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Azure Cloud Engineer
Up to £60,000
Oxfordshire (Hybrid – 1 day per week)
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of designing and delivering cloud infrastructure within a fully Azure-native environment.
THE COMPANY:
This is a consultancy-led technology business delivering innovative cloud and AI-driven solutions across multiple industries. The organisation partners closely with clients to deliver complex transformation programmes with real, measurable outcomes. The business operates at the intersection of consulting and technology, combining deep domain expertise with modern cloud engineering to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth across its client base.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of Azure cloud architecture and engineering across the business, acting as the technical authority within a small but highly impactful cloud function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure
- Acting as a subject matter expert, providing architectural guidance and solution design
- Supporting internal consultants with cloud solutioning and infrastructure recommendations
- Building and managing cloud resources (VMs, SQL Servers, Web Apps, Docker environments)
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Driving a code-first approach with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
- Leading on cloud integrations, including Azure Integration Services
- Supporting governance, security, compliance, backup, and recovery processes
- Contributing to AI-driven and innovation-focused internal projects
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting technical standards across the team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering and architecture
- Designing scalable, secure cloud solutions end-to-end
- Infrastructure-as-Code (ideally Bicep or Terraform)
- Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
- Cloud automation using PowerShell and Azure CLI
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Security, governance, and compliance within cloud environments
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £60,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Senior AI Product Engineer
San Francisco
$175000 - $250000
+ Digital Analytics
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Senior AI Product Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area (Hybrid | 3 days onsite) Compensation: Up to $250,000 Base + Equity
Build AI Products That Reach Real Users
We’re looking for an experienced AI Product Engineer to help build and scale the next generation of AI-powered products.
This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives at the intersection of software engineering, product thinking, and applied AI. You’ll work across the full life cycle of intelligent systems, from initial concept and prototyping to production deployment, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
If you’ve successfully shipped AI-powered features that deliver measurable value to users and enjoy solving complex problems with both technical depth and customer empathy, we’d love to meet you.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI applications and agentic systems
- Partner closely with product, engineering, and leadership teams to identify high-impact opportunities for AI
- Own features end-to-end, from architecture and implementation through monitoring and optimization
- Develop robust evaluation frameworks to measure quality, reliability, and business impact
- Continuously improve system performance through experimentation, testing, and iteration
- Help establish best practices for building scalable, maintainable AI products
- Contribute to a collaborative engineering culture focused on learning, innovation, and execution
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- Experience building and shipping customer-facing AI products into production
- Strong software engineering foundation with experience in backend or full-stack development
- Experience working with LLM-powered applications, agentic systems, or AI-driven workflows
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript
- Experience evaluating, debugging, and improving AI system performance
- Ability to make thoughtful technical decisions and communicate trade-offs clearly
- Strong ownership mindset with a track record of delivering impactful products
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Familiarity with agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, or AI infrastructure tools such as LangChain, AWS Bedrock, LlamaIndex, or similar technologies
- Experience operating AI systems at scale in production environments
- Startup or high-growth company experience
What Success Looks Like
The strongest candidates have:
- Built AI-powered products that moved beyond prototype and reached real users
- Demonstrated ownership of both product outcomes and technical execution
- Experience creating evaluation and feedback loops that improve model quality over time
- A track record of balancing speed with thoughtful engineering decisions
- The ability to clearly explain what they built, why they built it, and what they learned along the way
Leveling
We are hiring at multiple levels based on experience and impact:
- Senior AI Product Engineer: Approximately 4-6 years of experience
- Senior AI Product Engineer II: Approximately 6-8 years of experience
Why Join?
- Work on cutting-edge AI products with meaningful user impact
- High ownership and influence on technical direction
- Competitive compensation package including equity
- Opportunity to help define how AI is integrated into real-world applications
- Collaborate with a team that values curiosity, execution, and continuous learning

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Senior AI Engineer
London
£80000 - £100000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior AI Engineer – Remote
Join a growing AI team building production-grade machine learning and generative AI solutions that solve complex real-world challenges. This is an opportunity to combine AI research, engineering, and innovation in a highly autonomous role.
The Company
They are a technology business investing heavily in AI, with a focus on developing advanced machine learning, generative AI, and agentic systems. The environment is research-led, collaborative, and focused on turning cutting-edge ideas into scalable products.
The Role
- Design and deploy machine learning, deep learning, and LLM-based solutions
- Build RAG pipelines, agentic AI systems, and model evaluation frameworks
- Work across the full AI lifecycle from problem definition to deployment
- Apply both classical ML techniques and modern AI approaches
- Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar
- Help shape technical direction and mentor other engineers
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience across machine learning and generative AI
- Hands-on expertise with Python, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, and Hugging Face
- Experience building production AI systems and MLOps pipelines
- Practical use of AI coding assistants and agentic engineering workflows
- Ability to own projects independently from concept to delivery
- MSc required, PhD advantageous

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Director of AI
Los Angeles
$230000 - $400000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLos Angeles, California
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Senior AI/ML Engineer – Foundation Models & Agentic AI
Life Sciences AI | Biotech / Therapeutics / Computational Biology
What You’ll Work On
- Develop and train proprietary foundation models on multi-omics data (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics)
- Design novel algorithms to integrate and differentiate across omics modalities
- Own the full training pipeline: data ingestion, tokenization, pretraining, and evaluation
- Push the state of the art – we are building models that do not exist yet
Agentic AI for Life Sciences
- Build and deploy AI agents that assist researchers across therapeutic development, computational chemistry, and biology
- Design multi-agent architectures using LangChain, LangGraph, and custom orchestration layers
- Integrate agents with internal databases, experimental systems, and third-party scientific tools
- Develop agentic workflows for use cases in cosmetics R&D, drug discovery, and clinical analysis
Production ML Infrastructure
- Own model deployment, scaling, and serving infrastructure
- Optimize inference using NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM, Dynamo, Triton, and related tooling
- Partner with software engineering on integration into our broader platform
- Maintain reliability, performance, and observability across deployed models
What We’re Looking For
Required
- Strong hands-on ML/AI engineering experience – you write real code, not just direct others
- Deep proficiency in Python and PyTorch – this is non-negotiable
- Experience training, fine-tuning, and deploying foundation models from scratch or from pretrained checkpoints
- Familiarity with the Hugging Face ecosystem (Transformers, Datasets, PEFT, Accelerate)
- Experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph for agentic pipeline development
- Working knowledge of the NVIDIA stack: TensorRT-LLM, Triton Inference Server, Dynamo
- Comfort with large-scale distributed training tools: DeepSpeed, xFormers
- Strong understanding of state-of-the-art model architectures (transformers, SSMs, diffusion, etc.)
- Ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams – bio, chem, software, clinical
- Excellent communication skills – you can explain a training run to a chemist
Strongly Preferred
- Experience with omics data (any modality: genomic, proteomic, transcriptomic, metabolomic)
- Background in computational biology, computational chemistry, or bioinformatics
- Prior work in biotech, pharma, or life sciences AI (not required but a plus)
- Experience building or contributing to multi-agent systems in a production environment
- Track record of independent research or open-source contributions in ML
Technical Skills Summary
Core ML / Training
- PyTorch – primary framework
- DeepSpeed – distributed training and ZeRO optimization
- xFormers – memory-efficient attention and transformer components
- Hugging Face Transformers, PEFT, Accelerate
- Training and fine-tuning large language and multimodal models
Inference & Deployment
- NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM – high-performance LLM inference
- NVIDIA Dynamo – inference orchestration and scheduling
- Triton Inference Server – model serving and batching
- Model quantization, distillation, and latency optimization
Agentic & Orchestration
- LangChain / LangGraph – agent design and multi-agent orchestration
- Tool-use, RAG pipelines, and memory systems
- API and system integration across scientific data sources

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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco
$160000 - $190000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Clinical Data Scientist
San Francisco, California
Remote
$160,000 – $190,000 + Equity
About the Company
This innovative health tech startup is working to improve the oncology drug development process by providing better patient data to drug developers as well as better access to clinical trials for patients. This series B startup is expending to meet demand.
About the Role
As a Clinical Data Scientist, you’ll execute the last leg of the clinical data pipeline by transforming, cleaning, validating, and delivering high‑quality clinical datasets for pharma partners. Heavy collaboration with Clinical Ops, AI Engineering, and Data Delivery.
Role Responsibilities
- Transform raw, abstracted, and AI‑processed data into CDISC SDTM/ADaM datasets
- Program statistical outputs (tables, listings, figures) in SAS/R/Python
- Investigate data anomalies across multiple messy data inputs
- Define data dictionaries and standards before study kickoff
- Handle data in a HIPAA‑aligned manner
Key Requirements
- 2-5 years in clinical data science, stat programming, or clinical data management
- Pharma/Biotech experience
- SAS, R, Python, SQL
- Real‑world clinical data or oncology trials
- CDISC SDTM/ADaM

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Senior Data Scientist
London
£65000 - £70000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior Data Scientist – START UP – EQUITY
We are working with an exciting start up company who are committed to making affordable, flexible loans for their customers. This will be their first Data Science hire in the company and will have full ownership on ML models across the business.
Required Experience:
- Experience working in Lending, Loans, Insurance or Credit businesses
- Experience building and deploying Credit Risk Data Models
- AWS, Python & SQL experience
Important Information
- 2 days a week in London
- Up to £70K base
- Equity
- No additional benefits

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Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Oxford
£70000 - £80000
+ Data Engineering
PermanentOxford, Oxfordshire
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Senior Azure Cloud Engineer
Up to £80,000
Oxfordshire (Hybrid – 1 day per week)
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth organisation where you can take ownership of designing and delivering cloud infrastructure within a fully Azure-native environment.
THE COMPANY:
This is a consultancy-led technology business delivering innovative cloud and AI-driven solutions across multiple industries. The organisation partners closely with clients to deliver complex transformation programmes with real, measurable outcomes. The business operates at the intersection of consulting and technology, combining deep domain expertise with modern cloud engineering to drive innovation, efficiency, and growth across its client base.
THE ROLE:
You will take ownership of Azure cloud architecture and engineering across the business, acting as the technical authority within a small but highly impactful cloud function.
Key responsibilities include:
- Designing, building, and maintaining Azure cloud infrastructure
- Acting as a subject matter expert, providing architectural guidance and solution design
- Supporting internal consultants with cloud solutioning and infrastructure recommendations
- Building and managing cloud resources (VMs, SQL Servers, Web Apps, Docker environments)
- Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub
- Driving a code-first approach with Infrastructure-as-Code and automation
- Leading on cloud integrations, including Azure Integration Services
- Supporting governance, security, compliance, backup, and recovery processes
- Contributing to AI-driven and innovation-focused internal projects
- Mentoring junior engineers and setting technical standards across the team
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
You will bring strong capability in:
- Hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering and architecture
- Designing scalable, secure cloud solutions end-to-end
- Infrastructure-as-Code (ideally Bicep or Terraform)
- Building and managing CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub Actions)
- Cloud automation using PowerShell and Azure CLI
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
- Security, governance, and compliance within cloud environments
THE BENEFITS:
You will receive a salary up to £80,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package
HOW TO APPLY:
Please register your interest by sending your CV to Molly Bird via the apply link on this page.

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Director of Ai Strategy
London
£1000 - £1500
+ Data Science & AI
ContractLondon
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Interim AI Strategy Director
Location: London
Working pattern: Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week
Contract: Initial 6 Months
Day rate: £1,000 to £1,500 per day – Outside IR35
Start date: ASAP
Harnham are working with a leading global maritime and logistics business who are looking for an Interim AI Strategy Director to define and deliver their first enterprise-wide AI strategy.
This is a senior, high-impact contract working directly with the executive leadership team. The business is looking for someone who can quickly assess the current AI, data and technology landscape, identify where AI can create genuine commercial value, and build a practical roadmap for adoption across the organisation.
This is not a purely technical delivery role. The successful consultant will need to operate credibly at C-suite level, challenge thinking, influence senior stakeholders and provide clear strategic direction on how AI should be adopted across the business.
The Role
You will be responsible for shaping the organisation’s AI strategy from the ground up, identifying high-value use cases across commercial, operations, technical, finance, legal, HR and wider business functions.
You will also help establish the governance, operating model, controls and roadmap required to support responsible and sustainable AI adoption.
Key Responsibilities
Assess the current AI, data and technology landscape.
Develop an enterprise-wide AI strategy and implementation roadmap.
Identify and prioritise AI use cases across multiple business functions.
Advise senior leadership on AI opportunities, risks, governance and best practice.
Define the operating model, policies and controls required for responsible AI adoption.
Support selected pilot initiatives and proof-of-concepts where appropriate.
Build awareness and understanding of AI capabilities across senior stakeholders.
Provide recommendations around future investment, capability and organisational structure.
Skills and Experience
Proven experience leading AI strategy, AI transformation or digital transformation programmes.
Strong commercial mindset with the ability to connect AI initiatives to business outcomes.
Experience building strategic roadmaps rather than solely delivering technical solutions.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with experience influencing C-suite or executive-level stakeholders.
Ability to command a room and operate credibly in senior leadership environments.
Strong understanding of generative AI, automation, data platforms and AI governance.
Sharp, intellectually curious and capable of challenging conventional thinking.
Ability to bring innovative ideas rather than simply delivering a standard consulting playbook.
Backgrounds of Interest
There is a strong preference for candidates who have operated in high-performance environments such as hedge funds, asset management, financial services, trading firms or similarly demanding corporate environments.
Experience in shipping, logistics, transportation, commodities or operationally complex industries would also be beneficial.
The Offer
£1,000 to £1,500 per day, with flexibility for the right individual.
Initial 3 month contract.
3 days per week onsite, London.
ASAP start.
Opportunity to extend or potentially convert into a permanent leadership role.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced AI strategy leader to shape how AI is adopted across a global maritime and logistics business, working closely with senior leadership and influencing the organisation’s approach to AI for years to come.
Please apply with an up-to-date CV.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer (VLM)
$200000 - $230000
+ Computer Vision
PermanentUSA
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Fully Remote, United States | $200,000 to $230,000 base plus equity and benefits
This is a high impact opportunity to shape how Vision Language Models are applied in real world, production grade systems. You will play a central role in building and scaling VLM driven intelligence that connects edge devices with cloud based reasoning, influencing both technical direction and product outcomes in a fast moving environment.
The Company
They are a technology led organisation building intelligent, connected solutions that blend advanced machine learning with real world operational workflows. Their platform is designed to turn complex visual data into actionable insights at scale. The team brings together expertise across machine learning, computer vision, embedded systems and data science, with a strong focus on building systems that perform reliably in production.
The Role
- Own the design and development of cloud based Vision Language Model pipelines used for large scale labelling and annotation
- Drive decisions on what visual signals, metadata and contextual information are captured from edge devices to maximise VLM performance
- Build and evaluate end to end inference systems, including prompt design, fine tuning strategies and model benchmarking
- Partner closely with embedded systems, computer vision and data science teams to close the loop between devices and cloud intelligence
- Stay at the forefront of the VLM landscape, assessing and integrating commercial and open source models as capabilities evolve
Your Skills and Experience
- Strong commercial experience as a machine learning engineer working with computer vision, LLMs or Vision Language Models
- Hands on experience evaluating, fine tuning or deploying VLMs in production environments
- Deep understanding of how edge constraints such as bandwidth, latency and compute influence model design
- Proficiency with Python, PyTorch and modern cloud based inference and evaluation tooling
- Practical expertise in prompt engineering and model evaluation, with a focus on measurable performance improvements
- Comfortable owning problems end to end and collaborating across hardware and software teams
What They Offer
- Competitive base salary of $200,000 to $230,000 plus equity
- Fully remote working across the United States
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental and vision cover
- Flexible paid time off and a strong culture of autonomy and trust
- The opportunity to be a technical leader in the application of Vision Language Models at scale
How to Apply
If you are excited by the challenge of building production grade VLM systems with real world impact, apply now to learn more about this opportunity.

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