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Lead AI Engineer
Minneapolis
$160000 - $180000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentMinneapolis, Minnesota
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Lead AI Engineer
$160,000-180,000 base salary + bonus
Minneapolis, MN – 3 days/week onsite
THE COMPANY
Harnham is working with a global technology and information services organization that develops advanced software solutions for professionals operating in highly regulated and data-intensive industries. With significant investment in artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, the business is building next-generation intelligent platforms that help customers uncover insights, make critical decisions, and improve operational efficiency at scale.
This is an opportunity to join a highly innovative engineering team at the forefront of AI adoption, where you will help shape enterprise-grade solutions leveraging Generative AI, RAG architectures, autonomous agents, and cloud-native technologies.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead the design and development of enterprise-scale AI applications, including RAG solutions, intelligent agents, and multi-stage AI pipelines.
- Architect and deliver full-stack solutions spanning AI orchestration layers, APIs, microservices, data services, and modern web applications.
- Drive technical strategy for AI initiatives, evaluating emerging technologies and translating research into practical business applications.
- Establish best practices for MLOps and LLMOps, including model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.
- Mentor and support engineering teams, providing technical leadership and guidance across complex software projects.
- Collaborate closely with product, design, research, and engineering stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing AI-powered products.
- Champion observability, testing, security, compliance, and responsible AI practices across the software development lifecycle.
- Optimize AI solutions for performance, cost efficiency, reliability, and user experience within large-scale production environments.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience (Master’s degree preferred).
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 4 years in senior or lead engineering roles focused on AI/ML solutions.
- Proven experience designing and delivering Generative AI, LLM, RAG, or agent-based applications in production environments.
- Strong expertise in backend development, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native application architecture.
- Expert-level proficiency in object-oriented programming and experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Strong experience with AWS and modern infrastructure tooling including Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI models into enterprise-scale systems through APIs, data pipelines, and microservices.
- Excellent communication, leadership, stakeholder management, and mentoring skills.
Preferred
- Experience leading teams building AI-driven platforms or enterprise AI integrations.
- Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, semantic search, and information retrieval technologies.
- Experience working within regulated sectors such as legal, financial, risk, compliance, or investigative services.
- Understanding of AI governance, model risk management, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
- Record of successful AI product launches, technical presentations, publications, patents, or industry speaking engagements.
BENEFITS
- Opportunity to lead cutting-edge AI initiatives with significant business impact.
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise AI platforms and modern cloud technologies.
- Collaborative and innovation-focused engineering culture.
- Ongoing professional development, learning, and industry engagement opportunities.
- Comprehensive employee benefits package and flexible working arrangements.
HOW TO APPLY
Please register your interest by sending your CV via the Apply link on this page.
KEY TERMS
Lead Software Engineer AI | Principal Software Engineer | Generative AI | LLM | Large Language Models | RAG | Retrieval Augmented Generation | Agentic AI | AI Agents | Machine Learning | MLOps | LLMOps | AWS | Kubernetes | Docker | Terraform | Python | PyTorch | TensorFlow | JAX | Microservices | APIs | Distributed Systems | Vector Databases | Embeddings | Semantic Search | Cloud Architecture | Enterprise Software | Full Stack Engineering | Artificial Intelligence Leadership

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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 Analytics Manager
London
£75000 - £85000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Analytics Manager (Pricing and Promotions) – 1 Year FTC
London, Hybrid
Salary up to £85,000
This is an opportunity to take ownership of a high-impact commercial analytics function within a well-established consumer-facing business. You will play a key role in shaping strategic decisions across pricing, promotions, product ranging and operational performance, using advanced analytics to drive measurable commercial outcomes.
The Company
They are a recognised organisation with a strong customer focus and a data-driven approach to decision-making. Analytics sits at the heart of their commercial strategy, helping teams make smarter decisions that improve revenue, profitability and customer experience. The business continues to invest in data, technology and analytical capability, creating an environment where insight can directly influence business performance. You will join a collaborative team that values innovation, commercial thinking and continuous improvement.
The Role
As Senior Analytics Manager, you will lead the development of commercial analytics capabilities across pricing, promotions, forecasting and optimisation.
Responsibilities include:
- Developing and delivering a commercial analytics strategy aligned to business objectives.
- Building analytical frameworks to support pricing, promotional and product range decisions.
- Delivering forecasting, optimisation and predictive modelling solutions that drive revenue and margin growth.
- Translating complex analytical outputs into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Partnering with commercial, finance, operations, data science and engineering teams to embed analytics into decision-making.
- Driving improvements in analytical best practice, governance and data quality.
- Coaching and developing analytics talent while promoting a culture of commercial insight and continuous improvement.
- Identifying opportunities for experimentation and performance optimisation across key commercial areas.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience within analytics, insights or data science.
- Advanced SQL and experience with Python, R or similar analytical tools.
- Expertise in forecasting, optimisation, predictive modelling and commercial analytics.
- Experience delivering complex analytics projects from concept through to implementation.
- Strong understanding of pricing, promotions, demand forecasting, margin performance and customer-focused commercial decision-making.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior business leaders.
- Experience developing analytical capability through mentoring, coaching or team leadership.
- Knowledge of data governance, model quality assurance and analytical best practice.
How to Apply
If you’re an experienced analytics leader looking to drive commercial impact through data and advanced analytics, apply today to find out more.

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Senior Data Scientist
London
£70000 - £80000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentLondon
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Senior Data Scientist
£70,000-£80,000 + £5,000 Car Allowance + Bonus
London(Hybrid – 2x Days a Week in Office)
If you enjoy solving complex modelling problems, building innovative machine learning solutions, and working with alternative data to challenge traditional pricing strategies, this is an opportunity to join one of the UK’s strongest data science functions!
The Company
This leading UK financial services business has built one of the most mature data science capabilities in the industry, using advanced analytics and machine learning to drive commercial decision-making across millions of customers; with significant investment in technology, data and AI, the business continues to grow rapidly and is looking to expand its Alternative Pricing Product team with a Senior Data Scientist. You’ll join a highly collaborative environment where experimentation is encouraged and innovative modelling techniques are actively deployed into production!
The Role
Reporting into the Head of Pricing, you’ll join a specialist team responsible for developing next-generation pricing models that challenge conventional approaches. Working across large and complex datasets, you’ll build predictive machine learning models using alternative data sources to improve customer pricing and risk selection.
Projects include:
- Building innovative predictive machine learning models
- Developing pricing and customer selection models
- Exploring alternative data sources to improve pricing accuracy
- Geospatial and footprint modelling
- Residual and claims modelling
- Working with messy, high-volume datasets to uncover commercial insights
- Deploying models using Azure Machine Learning
- Mentoring junior team members and helping shape best practice across the team
This is an opportunity to influence products that impact millions of customers whilst working on genuinely novel modelling challenges.
Your Skills & Experience
- Experience building machine learning models
- Strong Python skills
- Experience developing predictive models within commercial environments
- Experience working with large, complex datasets
- Experience with cloud-based ML platforms (Azure ML preferred)
- The ability to communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience mentoring or supporting more junior data scientists is advantageous
Experience within insurance or financial services would be beneficial, although candidates from other highly analytical industries are also encouraged to apply.
The Benefits
- £70,000-£80,000 salary
- £5,000 annual car allowance
- Bonus
How to Apply
To register your interest in this opportunity, please send your CV via the application link

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Lead Analyst – Pricing and Promotions
London
£40000 - £50000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Lead Analyst – Pricing & Promotions
Up to £50,000 + Benefits
Hybrid – 2 days per week, Central London
We’re working with a well-established consumer-facing business that is investing heavily in data and analytics to drive smarter commercial decision-making. As part of this investment, they’re expanding a newly formed analytics function focused on pricing, promotions, product strategy and trading performance.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced analyst to work on commercially critical projects, applying advanced analytics to influence pricing, promotional and trading decisions across the business.
The Role
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Develop analytical models to support pricing, promotions and commercial trading decisions.
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Apply forecasting, optimisation, elasticity analysis and predictive modelling techniques.
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Translate customer, product and trading data into actionable commercial recommendations.
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Present insights to stakeholders, helping drive data-led decision making.
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Deliver deep-dive analysis into pricing, promotional and trading performance.
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Support and mentor junior analysts while contributing to the development of the wider analytics function.
What We’re Looking For
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5+ years’ experience in Analytics, Commercial Analytics or Data Science.
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Strong SQL and Power BI (or a similar data visualisation tool).
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Python experience is advantageous.
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Experience within retail, consumer, e-commerce or another high-volume commercial environment.
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Strong background in pricing, promotions or commercial analytics.
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Experience with forecasting, optimisation, elasticity modelling or other commercial modelling techniques.
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Previous mentoring or coaching experience is desirable.
What’s on Offer
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Up to £50,000 + benefits.
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Hybrid working (2 days per week in Central London).
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1-year fixed-term contract with strong potential to become permanent.
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Opportunity to join a growing analytics function and work on high-impact commercial projects with excellent exposure to senior stakeholders.
Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Senior Analytics Manager – 1 Year FTC
London
£70000 - £85000
+ Advanced Analytics & Marketing Insights
PermanentLondon
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Senior Analytics Manager
Up to £85,000 + Benefits
Hybrid – 2 days per week, Central London
We’re working with a well-established consumer-facing business that is investing heavily in data and analytics to drive smarter commercial decision-making. As part of this investment, they’re creating a new analytics function focused on supporting key commercial initiatives across pricing, promotions, product strategy and trading performance.
This is a fantastic opportunity to shape a new capability, influence senior stakeholders, and deliver insights that have a direct impact on business performance.
The Role
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Develop and lead the analytics strategy across commercial performance initiatives.
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Build forecasting, optimisation and commercial modelling capabilities.
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Deliver actionable insights to support pricing, promotions, product and trading decisions.
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Partner with senior stakeholders to influence strategic decision-making.
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Help establish and grow a high-performing analytics function.
What We’re Looking For
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7+ years’ experience in Analytics, Data Science or Commercial Analytics.
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Strong SQL and Power BI (or a similar data visualisation tool).
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Python experience is advantageous.
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Experience within retail, consumer, e-commerce or another high-volume commercial environment.
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Strong background in pricing, promotions or commercial analytics.
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Previous people management experience with a track record of building or developing analytical capability.
What’s on Offer
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Up to £85,000 + benefits.
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Hybrid working (2 days per week in Central London).
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1-year fixed-term contract with strong potential to become permanent.
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Opportunity to play a key role in building a new analytics capability within a growing data function.
Find out more and apply via the link below!

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Senior AI Product Engineer
San Francisco
$180000 - $225000
+ Data Science & AI
PermanentSan Francisco, California
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Overview
Senior AI Product Engineer
A fast-growing B2B software company is investing heavily in the next generation of AI-driven automation and is hiring experienced AI engineers to build customer-facing autonomous systems. The organisation has already introduced AI-powered capabilities across its platform and is now focused on developing intelligent agents capable of executing complex workflows, making decisions, and driving business outcomes with minimal user intervention.
This is a hands-on engineering role for individuals who have successfully built and deployed production AI systems. Engineers will work within small, high-impact teams responsible for developing new agentic capabilities from the ground up while collaborating closely with product and platform stakeholders.
The environment is fast-paced, ownership-driven, and well-suited to engineers who enjoy solving ambiguous problems and delivering new products at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and deploy production-grade AI agents and autonomous workflows.
- Own AI-powered features from concept through launch, monitoring, and optimisation.
- Develop scalable architectures that support agent orchestration, tool usage, evaluation, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and platform teams to create consistent AI experiences.
- Define and implement testing, evaluation, and monitoring frameworks for AI applications.
- Build customer-facing AI solutions that automate complex business processes and decision-making workflows.
- Contribute to shared AI infrastructure, agent platforms, and reusable frameworks.
- Drive technical decisions across system design, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
Core Requirements
- Proven experience building and shipping customer-facing AI products in production environments.
- Strong understanding of the full AI application lifecycle, including:
- Prompt engineering
- Evaluation methodologies
- Iteration and optimisation
- Reliability testing
- Debugging and observability
- Strong software engineering background with experience in backend or full-stack development.
- Demonstrated ownership of systems from design through deployment and ongoing support.
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript.
- Experience creating evaluation frameworks and measuring AI system quality in production.
- Ability to clearly explain architectural decisions, trade-offs, and outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.
- Experience using agent frameworks, orchestration platforms, or foundation model tooling.
- Familiarity with multi-agent systems, tool calling, workflow orchestration, and autonomous execution patterns.
- Experience working within startup or high-growth technology environments.
- Exposure to cloud-based AI service ecosystems and large-scale AI deployments.

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Data Modeler
London
£600 - £700
+ Data Engineering
ContractLondon
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Data Modeler
£600 – £700 per day
London (1 day onsite)
This is a high‑impact freelance opportunity to shape the data foundations of a large, complex organisation as it consolidates fragmented platforms and enables self‑service analytics and AI at scale. You will play a pivotal role in defining how enterprise data is structured, governed, and consumed, working at the intersection of business, engineering, and governance.
The Company
They are a large, asset‑rich organisation operating across multiple European markets within the commercial real estate and infrastructure space. The business manages complex financial, operational, and customer data across a diverse portfolio and is investing heavily in modern data capabilities. With strong cash generation and long‑term growth initiatives, data quality and modelling are central to their future strategy.
The Role and Deliverables
- Lead the design of enterprise logical and physical data models aligned to a single core ERP and wider business domains.
- Work through a defined backlog, breaking down high‑level requirements into clear modelling deliverables and standards.
- Partner closely with data engineers to translate logical models into scalable physical implementations across the SQL, Databricks, and Fabric ecosystem.
- Define a repeatable, “cookie‑cutter” approach to data modelling that can be extended across additional business areas.
- Collaborate with business analysts, governance, and data teams to establish modelling standards and best practices.
- Deliver a robust, extensible data model within the first six months that supports current reporting needs and future AI enablement.
Your Skills & Experience
- Strong experience designing enterprise‑level logical and physical data models within complex organisations.
- Ability to operate in early‑stage or evolving data environments without heavy modelling tools, using pragmatic approaches.
- Experience working closely with data engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to align models to real‑world use cases.
- Confident, proactive communicator who can challenge constructively, stand their ground when needed, and remain sensitive to different stakeholder perspectives.
- Self‑starter mindset, able to take ownership of ambiguous problems and drive them through to delivery.
How to Apply
Apply now to explore this contract opportunity and discuss how you could help shape a scalable, future‑ready data platform.

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