Hire AI developers & ML engineers in the UK who can actually ship.

We specialise in AI and machine learning, for UK businesses. Candidates are screened for production experience — models shipped, maintained and monitored — not keywords on a CV. Founder-led: you brief Jamie, and Jamie runs the search.

Talk to us about a UK hire
At a glance
  • AI and machine learning is our core specialism, for UK businesses.
  • Permanent UK hires on 20% of first-year base salary. See fees.
  • From LLM and RAG work to computer vision, MLOps and research.
Can't find it in the UK?

We can also find remote AI developers based in China, contracted and paid through our UK company — no Chinese entity, no visa, one sterling invoice. Hire from China.

Need someone to lead the team?

We also find UK CTOs, screened for the teams they have built and the AI they have actually delivered. CTO recruitment.

Why UK teams hire AI talent through us

Generalist agencies match keywords on a CV. We specialise in AI, and we screen for the work itself.

One specialism

AI and ML engineers, and the CTOs who lead them, are all we recruit, so the difference between fine-tuning a model and calling an API is the first thing we ask about.

Screened for production

We look for evidence of shipped work — repositories, papers, systems in production — before a CV reaches you.

Founder-led

You deal with Jamie from brief to offer. No account manager in the middle and no hand-off to a junior team.

How it works

Four steps, from brief to offer.

1. Brief in one call

Tell us the role, stack, seniority and timeline. No lengthy intake forms.

2. We search where good people are

Open-source projects, research communities and practitioner networks — not just job boards.

3. Technical screening first

Technical depth is checked before you see a CV, so your interviews start from evidence.

4. You meet a tight shortlist

A short list you can actually interview, with support through to offer.

Who this is for

If any of this sounds familiar, it's probably why you're here.

Scaling fast

A funded team that needs several strong AI developers & ML engineers in a quarter, not a year.

Backfilling a critical role

A senior AI/ML engineer has left and you can't afford months of downtime on the team.

A specific, less common stack

You need someone who's genuinely shipped with a particular tool — not just listed it on a CV.

Your first technical hire

You're not technical yourself and need someone you can trust to get this right.

AI and machine-learning roles we recruit for

machine learning engineer AI engineer deep learning engineer data scientist MLOps engineer LLMOps engineer applied AI scientist AI research engineer research scientist AI solutions architect AI product engineer ML platform engineer AI infrastructure engineer AI automation engineer LLM engineer generative AI engineer RAG engineer LangChain developer LlamaIndex developer prompt engineer AI agent developer agentic AI engineer LLM fine-tuning specialist RLHF engineer vector database engineer embeddings engineer semantic search engineer chatbot developer conversational AI engineer AI copilot developer multimodal AI engineer diffusion model engineer image generation engineer text-to-speech engineer voice AI engineer PyTorch engineer TensorFlow engineer Keras engineer JAX engineer scikit-learn engineer

Hiring guides, role by role

What each role actually does, how to screen for it, and what it costs in Britain.

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Hiring JAX engineers
Hiring Keras engineers
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Hiring LLM engineers
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Hiring PyTorch engineers
Hiring RAG engineers
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Hiring reinforcement learning engineers
Hiring scikit-learn engineers
Hiring TensorFlow engineers
Hiring TensorRT engineers
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Common questions

It depends on the role. On the first call we'll give you a realistic timeline based on how many people in the UK actually have the skills you need — for some niche specialisms that is very few, and we'd rather tell you that up front.

For a permanent UK hire, 20% of the hire's first-year base salary — see our UK hiring fees for a worked example. Remote developers in China are contracted at an hourly rate instead; the China page explains how that works.

Tell us what you need. We recruit across AI and machine learning — LLM and RAG work, computer vision, MLOps, research and more — and if the UK pool for a niche skill is too thin, the remote China route is often where that expertise is.

We work with UK businesses only. Most hires are UK-based, for remote, hybrid or in-office roles. Where the skills you need are scarce here, we can also find remote AI developers based in China, contracted and paid through our UK company, so you need no Chinese entity and no overseas payroll.

We recruit AI and machine-learning engineers, and the CTOs who lead them, and the business is founder-led, so Jamie handles your search personally. We screen for technical depth ourselves instead of forwarding you every CV that matches a keyword.

Ready to hire your next AI/ML engineer?

Tell us what you need, and we'll talk you through the UK market for that role — or the China route, if that fits better.

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