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Explore Harnham’s collection of videos covering data, AI, analytics, and talent. Hear from industry experts, hiring leaders, and data professionals as they discuss building high-performing teams, hiring strategies, AI trends, and the future of data-driven organisations.

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What Success Looks Like in Data & AI

For today’s data leaders, success means confidence, simplicity, and long-term impact. With Harnham and Rockborne as one partner across the full spectrum of data and AI talent, businesses can reduce the complexity of juggling multiple suppliers and focus instead on building capability that lasts.

Lessons from 19,000+ placements and a partnership shaping the future of data talent

From Talent Provider to Data & AI Partner: Rockborne’s Evolution

As the market shifted and data leaders faced increasing pressure to deliver outcomes faster, with tighter budgets and higher visibility, business needs evolved. Instead of hiring talent, organisations now require complete, outcome-driven solutions.

Why Embedded Recruitment Wins for Data & AI Hiring | Harnham

When hiring is business-critical, traditional recruitment models often fall short. In this video, we explain why embedded recruitment is the most effective approach for scaling high-performing data and AI teams.

How to Build Data & AI Capability | Harnham x Rockborne’s Attract–Train–Deploy Mode

Every business faces unique challenges in building data and AI capability. That’s why Harnham and Rockborne start with one simple step: a conversation. From there, we shape the right approach together, guided by our proven Attract–Train–Deploy model.

Talent Transformation: Building Data Careers and Stronger Teams

Some of our proudest moments come from seeing Rockborne consultants, many from non-traditional backgrounds, grow into permanent roles, earn promotions, and even lead teams of their own. Their journeys prove how opportunity can transform both lives and industries. This impact extends to our client partnerships. In one organisation, Rockborne consultants, Harnham contractors, and permanent employees now collaborate side by side

Joining Forces for a Bigger Vision in Data & AI

Businesses needed a true partner who understood their challenges and could deliver lasting solutions. That vision sparked the creation of Rockborne: a consultancy that grew into a full-service partner, training, upskilling, and deploying diverse data specialists to close skills gaps and open data careers for people from all backgrounds.

Building Data & AI Talent: How Harnham and Rockborne Drive Transformation

From launching Rockborne as a training and development partner, to transforming how businesses think about data skills, Dave and Waseem share the vision, the impact, and the opportunities for organisations looking to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving market.

15,000 Placements Later: What We’ve Learned About the Global Data & AI Talent Market

Join Harnham co-founders Dave Farmer (Co-founder & CEO) and Simon (Co-founder & Chairman) for a candid and inspiring conversation celebrating 15,000 placements and nearly two decades in the data recruitment industry.

15,000 Placements Later: Co-Founders Dave and Simon

In this video, co -founders Dave Farmer (Co-founder & CEO) and Simon Clarke (Co-founder & Chairman) discuss a significant milestone in Harnham’s journey - 15,000 placements and nearly two decades of growth in the data and AI recruitment space.

15,000 Placements Later: Hear from Abby, the 15,000th placement

In this video, we speak to Abby Parker, the 15,000th person placed through Harnham Group - a data professional who entered the industry via our sister company, Rockborne.

What Makes a Great AI Recruiter?

In this video, we break down what separates great AI and data recruiters from the rest, and how companies can choose the right partner.

Short insights from Harnham experts answering the biggest questions in data and AI hiring

Data Leader Hiring Guide Insights

In this video, we break down the key insights from our Data Leader Hiring Guide, exploring what organisations should be looking for, how the role of data leadership is evolving, and what separates good from truly transformational hires.

Spotting High Potential Candidates

In this video, we explore what truly defines “high potential” — and why it goes far beyond experience, job titles, or technical ability. Hiring for potential rather than just proven performance can be a powerful competitive advantage.

The Skills Gap

In this video, we explore the growing conversation around the “skills gap” and what it really means for businesses trying to hire in a competitive market.

What we wish every hiring manager knew

In this video, we share the honest insights and recurring themes that can make or break a hiring process. From unclear briefs to unrealistic expectations, small misalignments can have a big impact on attracting and securing the right talent. We explore what hiring managers often underestimate, and how small shifts in approach can dramatically improve hiring outcomes

Why the US is losing out on top data talent

Is the US losing its grip on top data talent? In this video, we explore why some of the world’s best data professionals are increasingly looking beyond the US and what that means for businesses competing for elite talent.

What's changing in the US

In this video, we explore the key shifts shaping the US recruitment landscape, particularly across data, technology and leadership roles. From evolving candidate expectations to structural changes in how businesses hire and scale, the market is moving fast. Understanding these changes is critical for companies that want to stay competitive and attract the best talent.

Why We Don't Just Sent Any Candidate

In a competitive hiring market, volume is easy. Precision is harder. In this video, we explain why our approach isn’t about flooding inboxes with CVs — it’s about delivering carefully selected, high-impact candidates who truly fit the brief.

The Biggest AI Trends Right Now: LLMs, Agents & Trust

In this video, Tim Jonas (Business Manager at Harnham) shares the key trends shaping AI hiring and adoption today.

From 0 to AI Deployment in 4 Months

A pharmaceutical company had already invested heavily in an AI platform—and had just 4 months to implement it across the business. No delays. No budget resets. No second chances.

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Credit Operations Analyst

London

£50000 - £70000

+ Risk Analytics

Permanent
London

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Credit Operations Analyst
London
£50,000 to £70,000

This is an opportunity to join a growing, data-led financial services business where you will directly influence how credit decisions are made at scale. The role offers strong exposure across credit, data, and product, with a clear focus on automation and impact.

The Company
They are a fast-growing, technology-driven financial services organisation focused on improving how consumers manage their finances. The business takes a data-first approach, using modern tools and customer insights to inform decision-making. With continued growth and investment in their data capabilities, they are building out a high-performing analytics and credit function.

The Role
You will work at the intersection of credit risk, data, and decisioning, helping to improve and automate lending processes.

  • Develop and enhance automated credit decisioning and underwriting logic
  • Analyse lending performance and identify opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and credit teams to reduce manual processes
  • Use customer and transactional data to inform lending decisions
  • Support improvements in affordability assessment and decision frameworks
  • Contribute to building a scalable, data-driven credit operation

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong commercial experience in credit risk within a lending environment
  • Experience working on underwriting, decisioning, or credit policy using data
  • Strong SQL skills for data analysis and manipulation
  • Ability to translate data insights into practical lending decisions
  • Solid understanding of how credit decisions are made
  • Exposure to affordability assessment or open banking data is beneficial

What They Offer

  • Salary between £50,000 and £70,000
  • Share options
  • Private medical insurance
  • Statutory pension
  • Opportunity to join a growing business with strong career development potential

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Staff Engineer (AI)

City of London

£150000 - £170000

+ Data Engineering

Permanent
City of London, London

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Staff Engineer (AI)
£150,000 – £170,000 + benefits
London (Hybrid)
This is a great opportunity to join a high‑growth, PE‑backed organisation where you can take ownership of building and scaling an AI‑native data platform from the ground up.

THE COMPANY:

The group’s mission is to unify their businesses into a single, powerful data platform, creating comprehensive global datasets. With strong funding and a clear acquisition strategy, they are building a category‑defining B2B data business.

THE ROLE:

You will take ownership of building and rapidly iterating on core platform features as part of a highly agile engineering team. Key responsibilities include:

  • Developing and shipping working prototypes within days
  • Building and improving data platform components and internal tools
  • Turning complex data assets into user‑ready products
  • Collaborating with senior engineers and leadership on architecture decisions
  • Helping modernise and scale early‑stage prototypes into production systems

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

You will bring strong capability in:

    • Strong experience in Python, SQL, and TypeScript
    • Hands‑on software engineering experience
    • Proven ability to build and deliver products quickly in fast‑paced environments
    • Experience working with data‑heavy systems or platforms
    • Solid understanding of modern engineering practices

THE BENEFITS:

You will receive a salary of £150,000 – £170,000 depending on experience, along with a comprehensive benefits package and the opportunity to shape a high‑impact AI platform from day one.

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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ML Engineer

London

£450 - £550

+ Data Science & AI

Contract
London

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Machine Learning Engineer

Contract
London
Outside IR35
£450-£550 Per Day
Fully Remote
Immediate Start

The Company

They are a data-driven organisation investing heavily in modern data platforms and AI capability. With strong stakeholder engagement across the business, they are focused on embedding machine learning into core products and decision-making processes. Their environment is collaborative, with close alignment between data science, engineering, and product teams. This role offers the chance to contribute to a growing and ambitious data function.

The Role and Deliverables

  • Build, deploy, and maintain machine learning models in a production environment
  • Collaborate with data scientists to translate models into scalable solutions
  • Develop robust data pipelines to support model training and inference
  • Optimise model performance and ensure reliability in live systems
  • Implement best practices for MLOps, monitoring, and version control
  • Work with stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver end-to-end solutions

Your Skills & Experience

  • Strong experience in machine learning engineering and model deployment
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with relevant ML frameworks
  • Experience working with cloud platforms and modern data infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of data pipelines, APIs, and scalable systems
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Familiarity with MLOps tools and best practices

How to Apply

If you are interested in delivering impactful machine learning solutions in a collaborative environment, please apply with your CV.

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Machine Learning Scientist

$219054.6 - $255563.7

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
USA

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Machine Learning Scientist
USA (Remote)
$180,000 to $210,000 base + bonus + equity

This is an opportunity to join a high-impact Machine Learning team where experimentation, ownership, and real-world impact sit at the core of the role. You will work on systems that directly influence commercial outcomes at scale, with the autonomy to design, test, and deploy solutions that power critical decision-making.

The Company

This organisation operates at the intersection of data, commerce, and risk, building advanced machine learning systems to solve complex transactional challenges. Their platform processes high volumes of real-time decisions, using AI to optimise customer experiences while managing risk. Machine learning is central to their product and growth, not a supporting function, giving teams strong visibility across the business.

They foster a culture that values scientific thinking, creativity, and engineering rigour, with teams structured to own their services end to end.

The Role

You will contribute to the development of production-grade machine learning systems, working across the full lifecycle from experimentation through to deployment.

* Designing and implementing machine learning models that drive real-time decisioning
* Building and optimising scalable ML pipelines to enable rapid experimentation
* Exploring and integrating new ML techniques to improve model accuracy and scalability
* Collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and Risk teams
* Owning projects end to end, with full accountability for outcomes in production

Your Skills and Experience

* Strong commercial experience building and deploying machine learning models from first principles
* Hands-on experience working in distributed computing environments such as Spark
* Proficiency in Python and SQL for data processing and model development
* Experience designing and running experiments rather than relying on pre-built models or APIs
* Ability to translate business problems into scalable machine learning solutions

What They Offer

* Competitive base salary up to $210,000 depending on experience
* Annual bonus / equity package
* Fully remote working within the USA
* Flexible working and unlimited paid time off
* Generous parental leave and learning and development support
* The opportunity to work on high-scale systems with meaningful business impact

How to Apply

If you are interested in applying your machine learning expertise to real-world challenges at scale, please submit your CV to learn more.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Animation

$200000 - $275000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
USA

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Animation & Real-Time Systems

We are partnering with a Series C startup at the forefront of animation and gaming technology, building next-generation 3D avatar systems powered by machine learning. This team is redefining how characters are created, animated, and brought to life in real-time environments.

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with strong experience in animation systems and real-time integration. This role sits at the intersection of ML model development and production-grade runtime systems, with a heavy focus on deploying intelligent animation behaviors into interactive pipelines.

Responsibilities

  • Design and develop ML-driven systems for 3D avatar generation, including skeletal structures, rigging, and motion synthesis

  • Build and integrate models for motion prediction, gesture generation, and animation control into real-time pipelines

  • Translate model outputs into production-ready systems within Unity or Unreal Engine environments

  • Develop and optimize runtime systems for animation playback, motion matching, and behavior orchestration

  • Work with mocap data pipelines, including ingestion, cleaning, and model training

  • Collaborate closely with graphics engineers, technical artists, and gameplay teams to ensure seamless integration

  • Contribute across the ML lifecycle, with approximately 25% focused on training and fine-tuning models and 75% on engineering, integration, and runtime systems

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in machine learning engineering, graphics, or animation systems

  • Strong proficiency in C++ and Python

  • Hands-on experience with Unity or Unreal Engine in a production environment

  • Deep understanding of animation systems, including skeletons, rigging, motion matching, and behavior trees

  • Experience integrating ML models into real-time systems or interactive applications

  • Familiarity with mocap data processing and animation pipelines

  • Strong systems engineering mindset with the ability to optimize for performance and latency

Nice to Have

  • Experience with character animation, procedural animation, or physics-based animation systems

  • Background in gaming, simulation, or interactive media

  • Familiarity with generative models applied to motion or animation

  • Experience working with large-scale ML pipelines or real-time inference systems

Compensation & Location

  • Base salary: $200,000 – $280,000 + equity

  • Open to remote candidates; preference for Los Angeles or San Francisco

Why This Role

This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge ML-driven animation systems that bridge offline model development and real-time interactive experiences. You will have direct impact on how next-generation avatars move, behave, and interact in dynamic environments.

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Staff Software Engineer

San Francisco

$200000 - $350000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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Staff Software Engineer – AI Platform · Full-Time


About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join our AI platform team at a fast-growing, healthcare-focused startup. This is a hands-on technical leadership role – you’ll be the person who dreams up what’s possible, architects the solution, writes the code, and then hands off polished specs

You won’t be managing people. You’ll be doing the work: designing agentic AI workflows, building generative AI features, and thinking creatively about what could make our platform genuinely better for the people using it. If you’ve ever been the person in the room who says “what if we just built it this way” and then goes home and actually builds it – this role is for you.


What You’ll Do

  • Design, architect, and implement agentic AI and generative AI workflows that power core platform capabilities
  • Take ownership from idea to implementation – whiteboard it, validate it, ship it
  • Identify creative, non-obvious opportunities to leverage AI across the platform and bring those ideas to life
  • Contribute to marketing technology initiatives and help build commercially viable AI models

What We’re Looking For

  • Proven experience building agentic AI systems or AI-powered chatbots from scratch – not just integrating APIs, but architecting the underlying system
  • Strong Python skills across relevant frameworks – Django, Flask, and/or FastAPI
  • Comfort with the full development lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, validation, and iteration
  • Experience building and deploying on AWS
  • Ability to code without relying on AI-assisted tooling – you understand what you’re writing and why
  • A builder mentality – you move fast, think creatively, and take pride in shipping things that work
  • Frontend experience with React is a plus, though backend depth is what matters most here

Nice to Have

  • Experience with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar agentic frameworks
  • Background in healthcare, health tech, or a similarly regulated industry
  • Experience working with distributed or cross-timezone engineering teams

Why This Role

  • Greenfield AI work – you’ll have real influence over what gets built and how
  • Collaborate with a tight-knit, high-trust international team
  • Meaningful domain – the work you do will have a direct impact on how healthcare is delivered
  • Salary range up to 350k for the right level

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ML Scientist

San Francisco

$200000 - $280000

+ Life Science Analytics

Permanent
San Francisco, California

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ML Scientist / Researcher

Oncology AI · Foundation Models · Life Sciences

Remote

About the Role

We are building foundation models trained on human tumor biology – one of the most consequential and technically demanding challenges at the intersection of AI and medicine. As an ML Scientist, you will be a core research contributor designing and training these models across multimodal omics datasets, partnering closely with biologists and fellow research scientists to advance the state of the art in oncology AI.

This is a research-forward role for scientists who want their work to matter. We are looking for people with a track record of research excellence – those who have gone deep on model architecture, training dynamics, and rigorous experimental design. If you have built models from the ground up and published findings, we want to talk.

What You’ll Do

  • Design and train large-scale foundation models on multimodal biological datasets, including genomics, transcriptomics, and other omics modalities
  • Collaborate deeply with computational biologists, research scientists, and domain experts to translate biological questions into tractable modeling problems
  • Drive the full research lifecycle: hypothesis formation, experimental design, model development, and rigorous analysis of results
  • Contribute to agentic AI systems that reason over complex biological data
  • Communicate findings internally and, where appropriate, through peer-reviewed publication

What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves

  • Strong research background, typically evidenced by a PhD in machine learning, computational biology, statistics, physics, or a related quantitative field – or equivalent industry research experience
  • Demonstrated ability to build and train models end-to-end, including experimental analysis and iteration
  • Research excellence: first-author publications at top ML, AI, or computational biology venues are a strong positive signal
  • Deep familiarity with foundation model concepts: pretraining, self-supervised learning, attention mechanisms, and large-scale training
  • Comfort working at the intersection of biology and machine learning – even without a formal biology degree

Nice-to-Haves

  • Experience with biological or omics data (genomics, proteomics, pathology imaging, etc.)
  • Prior work in multimodal learning or multi-omics integration
  • Familiarity with agentic AI systems or tool-use frameworks
  • Background in oncology or disease biology

What This Role Is Not

This is not a production ML engineering or MLOps role. We are not looking for candidates whose primary experience is model deployment, serving infrastructure, or engineering-heavy systems work. The emphasis here is firmly on research depth and model development.

Compensation & Location

Base Salary: $250,000 – $288,000 (depending on experience) + equity

Location: Remote-friendly; office in South San Francisco, CA

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Director of AI

Los Angeles

$230000 - $400000

+ Data Science & AI

Permanent
Los 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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