SALT LAKE CITY DATA & AI STAFFING
OVERVIEW
In Salt Lake City and across Utah, Harnham Data Staffing has been helping companies in the technology, data science, and analytics sectors find the right data talent for many years.
We have helped companies of all sizes and stages, to find and secure the best talent in the industry. Our team of recruiters is dedicated to providing a tailored and comprehensive recruitment service, not only sourcing the top data candidates in the city but also providing advice and guidance for our clients to help them make the best decisions.
Our expert recruiters are incredibly attentive to the needs of our clients and provide them with a wealth of industry knowledge so they make well-informed hiring choices regarding their Data & AI jobs. The clients and candidates we work with have a high satisfaction rate which is a testament to our expertise and knowledge in our field. Get acquainted with your local market today by contacting Team Data & AI Staffing Salt Lake City.
DATA & AI RECRUITMENT AND STAFFING
HOW WE DO IT
Just like the Data & AI professionals we place, Harnham use tried and tested models in our recruitment processes.
By gaining valuable market knowledge across a range of industries and regions, Harnham is able to provide a service which is second to none within our marketplace.
We have seen unprecedented growth in our specialist sector and always have a wide range of vacancies at both junior and senior levels including AI jobs, Data Science jobs, Data Analyst jobs, and Big Data jobs, all available throughout the UK, France, United States, and the Netherlands. Find your perfect candidate today, contact Team Data & AI Staffing Salt Lake City now!
WHAT SETS US APART FROM OTHER SALT LAKE CITY DATA & AI STAFFING AGENCIES?
Harnham Data Recruitment stands out from other Data & AI Recruitment agencies in Salt Lake City due to our long history in this industry which makes us experts in finding the perfect data professional for our client's jobs.
We also work with a strong network of Data & AI professionals and companies that span multiple countries so whether someone comes to us as a job seeker or a client they have the best chance of finding the match they’re looking for. Team Data & AI Staffing Salt Lake City is connected with your local data talent pool. Connecting with them means you're giving yourself the best possible chance of finding the perfect Data & AI candidate.
Something else that makes us stand out is the fact that we use a unique combination of data-driven insights and human expertise to ensure the best possible match for both the employer and the candidate. Some of the insights we provide are things like annual salary and diversity guides we publish to help inform our clients and improve their hiring practices.
JOBS
LATEST SALT LAKE CITY
DATA & AI JOBS
Harnham are a specialist Data & AI Recruitment business with teams that only focus on niche areas.
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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VP AI Engineer
New York
$200000 - $220000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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VP AI Engineer
$220K base + bonus + RSU
New York or San Francisco
A global financial technology organisation operating at enterprise scale, combining advanced software engineering, data science, and applied AI to modernise large-scale production systems. The company invests heavily in automation, operational excellence, and AI-driven infrastructure, building mission-critical platforms used across complex, high-reliability environments.
Mission
- Design and deploy agentic AI systems to automate and optimise large-scale production environments
- Build LLM-powered solutions that diagnose issues, reason over complex systems, and take secure, auditable actions
- Develop RAG pipelines and domain knowledge systems with strong data quality, feedback loops, and governance
- Productionise LLMs: evaluation frameworks, prompt orchestration, response validation, self-correction loops
- Integrate AI agents with observability, incident management, deployment, and runtime platforms
- Implement safety, reliability, and compliance guardrails (policy enforcement, rollback strategies, circuit breakers)
- Optimise performance, cost, and latency through prompt engineering, caching, routing, batching, and streaming
Profile
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or computational field (Master’s / PhD preferred)
- 7+ years of experience in applied ML, data science, or software engineering in production environments
- Strong hands-on development in Python (or C++ / Java / Go), building large-scale applications
- Practical expertise with LLMs: prompt engineering, fine-tuning/adaptation, RAG, tool-calling agents, vector search
- Experience building secure, explainable, and reliable AI systems with strong governance and auditability
- Comfortable collaborating across engineering, infrastructure, and operations teams with measurable business outcomes

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
$180000 - $220000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Location: Fully Remote (Hybrid option in NYC)
Compensation: $190,000-$200,000 + Equity
Type: Full-Time
About the Company
We are partnering with a fast-growing, profitable SaaS company that is redefining programmatic advertising through AI-driven solutions. Their platform empowers brands to deploy custom algorithms across major DSPs (The Trade Desk, DV360, Meta, YouTube), enabling smarter, real-time ad-buying decisions. Backed by leading industry investors, this company is building ML infrastructure and solving problems that don’t have off-the-shelf solutions.
Why Join?
- Work on distributed ML infrastructure using Ray + PyTorch on Databricks.
- Build solutions that create a new software layer in ad-tech.
- Flexible working hours, fully remote, and equity participation.
- Opportunity to grow into Principal ML Engineer later this year.
Role Overview
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll own the ML lifecycle end-to-end, focusing on productionization and robust MLOps practices. You’ll work closely with data science and engineering teams to deploy models at scale and build automation for training, inference, and observability.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy ML models into production using CI/CD best practices.
- Monitor and manage ML drift; retrain models as needed.
- Build automation for ML lifecycle (training, inference, observability).
- Contribute to internal API development for future projects.
- Collaborate across teams to productionize models for client and internal use cases.
Must-Have Skills
- Strong experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions, build automation, packaging).
- Expertise in MLOps (MLflow, model versioning, monitoring).
- Hands-on with Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Asset Bundles).
- Proficient in Python and PySpark.
- 3-6 years of relevant experience.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Kubernetes and containerized environments.
- API development exposure.
- Distributed training (Ray) and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with embedding models and Databricks Clean Room.
Screening Process
- Intro (with Director of ML or Senior Engineer) + short live coding exercise.
- Take-home exercise (CI/CD-focused).
- Final interview with leadership.
- CEO check-in.
Interested?
Apply now to join a team building brand-new solutions in ad-tech and work with technologies like PyTorch, Ray, Databricks, and MLflow.

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Applied AI Engineer
$135000 - $155000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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This is an opportunity to work on real-world AI applications from concept through production, leveraging the latest advancements in large language models, conversational AI, retrieval systems, and intelligent automation. The ideal candidate is a hands-on builder with recent experience deploying production-grade GenAI solutions and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
- Design, prototype, and deploy Generative AI solutions across customer-facing and internal business applications.
- Develop and optimize applications powered by large language models (LLMs), vector databases, prompt engineering techniques, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
- Build, deploy, and maintain AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and compliance.
- Lead the development of AI agents for both digital and voice-based experiences, supporting real-time interactions for customers and employees.
- Evaluate, integrate, and implement third-party AI platforms, APIs, and emerging technologies to accelerate innovation and business value.
- Create proof-of-concept applications to assess new use cases such as document processing, classification, summarization, knowledge management, and workflow automation.
- Optimize prompts, model configurations, and orchestration frameworks to improve performance, accuracy, and cost efficiency.
- Partner closely with data, platform, and MLOps teams to ensure robust deployment processes, monitoring, observability, and governance practices.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate user needs into scalable AI solutions.
- Contribute to architectural discussions and establish best practices for enterprise AI adoption and integration.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 6+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, software engineering, data engineering, or natural language processing, including recent hands-on work with Generative AI and LLM-based applications.
- Demonstrated success building and deploying production-grade AI chatbots, assistants, or conversational AI solutions within the last two years.
Required Skills
- Advanced Python programming skills and experience with modern AI frameworks and libraries such as LangChain, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Transformers, or similar technologies.
- Experience working with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma, FAISS, or equivalent platforms.
- Strong understanding of RAG architectures, prompt engineering, model evaluation, API orchestration, and LLM optimization techniques.
- Solid SQL skills and experience working with cloud-based data platforms and large-scale datasets.
- Ability to operate effectively in cross-functional teams and collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and external partners.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex AI concepts and outcomes to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in highly regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, or telecommunications.
- Hands-on experience developing voice AI, speech-enabled assistants, or conversational systems integrated with telephony platforms.
- Familiarity with modern data stack technologies, including cloud data warehouses, transformation tools, and data orchestration frameworks.
- Experience integrating AI solutions with CRM, customer service, or workflow management platforms.
- Exposure to document intelligence use cases including OCR, information extraction, summarization, semantic search, and personalized recommendations.
- Experience supporting customer-facing applications, contact center technologies, or enterprise-scale service operations.

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Principal Machine Learning Engineer – ML Platform
$200000 - $230000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Principal Machine Learning Engineer – ML Platform
REMOTE – US
$180,000-$230,000 + Equity
We’re partnered with a scaling AI‑driven technology company building large‑scale, production‑grade ML systems used in real‑time decisioning. They’re seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer who loves production ML over research, with an emphasis on distributed compute, reliability, and end‑to‑end ownership.
This is a role for someone who enjoys shaping platform architecture while still being hands‑on.
What you’ll be doing
- Designing, training, and deploying high‑scale ML models used in live systems
- Building distributed training pipelines (PyTorch, Ray)
- Owning the ML lifecycle across feature engineering, training, evaluation, inference, monitoring
- Improving ML reliability, observability, and reproducibility
- Working closely with engineering, SRE, and product to shape platform direction
- Contributing to ML architecture standards, CI/CD, and testing frameworks
What they’re looking for
- Strong experience delivering production ML systems end‑to‑end
- Expertise with Python, PyTorch, distributed compute (Ray, Spark)
- Background in large‑scale data processing and MLOps tooling
- Ability to diagnose production issues and drive architectural improvements
- Experience with event‑driven ML and model deployment frameworks is a plus
Why this role
- High ownership of ML platform direction
- Complex, real‑world ML workloads at meaningful scale
- Opportunity to improve and evolve existing infrastructure
- Equity + strong compensation package
HOW TO APPLY
If you’re passionate about building robust, scalable ML systems that drive real business impact, apply now.

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Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist
$150000 - $175000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentUSA
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Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist
Salary: $175,000+ (Depending on Experience)
Locations: Remote (with 25% travel)
THE COMPANY
A high‑growth, mission‑focused technology organisation is expanding its advanced analytics and AI function. Operating in a complex, data‑rich environment, the team builds scalable, high‑impact AI systems that support critical decision‑making and deliver tangible operational value. The environment is fast‑paced, innovative, and ideally suited to someone who thrives in high‑autonomy, high‑impact roles.
THE ROLE
As a Forward Deployed Senior Data Scientist, you will work directly with stakeholders to translate complex problems into deployable AI solutions. You’ll use a combination of proprietary and commercial datasets to uncover insights, build models, and deploy production‑ready systems that support strategic decision‑making.
This role blends hands‑on data science, AI engineering, rapid prototyping, and end‑to‑end delivery ideal for someone who is highly analytical, scrappy, and passionate about solving complex technical challenges with real‑world impact.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build advanced AI/ML/DS models and systems tailored to high‑value operational challenges
- Develop new AI‑driven technology stacks designed for specific customer use cases
- Lead end‑to‑end delivery of AI projects, from scoping to production deployment
- Partner with research, engineering, and software teams to deliver robust AI products
- Define architectural standards and project roadmaps for scalable AI systems
- Create evaluation frameworks for AI deployments, including performance, reliability, and observability
- Mentor junior team members and help shape a culture of excellence and innovation
- Stay current with emerging techniques in AI, LLMs, and agentic systems; drive adoption of best practices
- Build agentic AI systems leveraging reasoning frameworks and orchestrators
- Act as a technical leader, translating high‑level objectives into actionable technical plans
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and delivering AI/ML solutions end‑to‑end
- Strong software and data science fundamentals (Python essential)
- Experience building production‑grade AI systems and integrating them into customer environments
- Ability to collaborate across research, engineering, and product teams
- Experience working with large‑scale datasets and cloud‑based ML deployments
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly
- Proven ability to operate independently in fast‑moving environments and manage competing priorities
- Passion for rapid prototyping, experimentation, and building high‑impact solutions
DESIRABLE EXPERIENCE
- Publications in top AI/ML/NLP or decision science venues
- Experience developing evaluation systems for LLMs or agentic models
- Experience with fine‑tuning, post‑training, or advanced model adaptation
- Familiarity with MLOps, monitoring, deployment, and large‑scale model management
- Track record of converting research prototypes into production systems
THE OFFER
- Competitive compensation (around $175,000 base depending on experience)
- Opportunity to work on deeply impactful, high‑scale AI challenges
- High degree of autonomy, technical ownership, and end‑to‑end influence
- A fast‑paced, innovation‑driven environment with strong technical peers
- Exposure to cutting‑edge modelling, LLMs, and agentic system development

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