Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £85,000.
Day job is software engineering at a global carmaker, where they are the AI champion driving enterprise-wide adoption of agentic coding workflows. The more interesting part is what they build in the evenings, a video generation platform with paying customers, serverless on AWS with Cognito, Stripe, ECS Fargate and RDS behind it. LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch, Bedrock, Terraform and Kubernetes, and they have built the evaluation pipelines too.
Looking forWants to do AI engineering full-time. There is nothing internal for them to move into, so they are going outside to get it.
How they came acrossSelf-taught and has presented to VP level. Said gaps in a stack are a weekend's work for them, which landed as confidence rather than bluster. Communication rated 10 out of 10 on the call.
Python, TypeScript, React, Next.js, FastAPI · LangChain, LangGraph, PyTorch, AWS Bedrock · Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker
5 employers over 13 years, from their own app company through a digital agency and a betting technology business to a global carmaker, with their own AI venture running alongside. Average tenure 2 years 6 months, longest stint 5 years 4 months.
Asking £65,000 against a current £52,000, so they are cheap for the skillset, but they have not yet done AI engineering as a day job and this is a genuine switch.
Bachelors in biomedical sciences from a Russell Group university, so the engineering is all self-taught.
Builds agentic systems that automate and optimise business processes for clients, the main one being the World Economic Forum. Python, AWS, OpenAI APIs, Terraform and Docker, with Kubernetes and KEDA doing the scaling, and React with Vite and Tailwind where a front end is needed. 5 years of production AI and cloud work, having started on a technology degree apprenticeship at a big four firm.
Looking forRelocating to Manchester. Wants to stay in AI, on problems that are genuinely problems.
How they came acrossCommunication rated 10 out of 10. Driven by the problem rather than the technology, and blunt that they have no time for AI for the sake of it.
Python, TypeScript, C#, FastAPI, Django · OpenAI APIs, LLM orchestration, PyTorch, Hugging Face · AWS, Azure, Terraform
Only 2 employers in 6 years, a big four professional services firm on a degree apprenticeship and then a venture backed AI consultancy. Average tenure 2 years, longest stint 3 years 11 months.
Three month notice, and they won't resign until an offer is signed. Relocating to Manchester, so London-only roles are out.
Bachelors in computer science from a Russell Group university, taken as a degree apprenticeship.
10 years of applied machine learning, currently putting generative AI into production at a gaming business, chatbots and real-time content moderation among it. LLMs, agents and RAG pipelines are daily work, on AWS Bedrock and Sagemaker with LangChain, LangGraph and Langfuse, and the forecasting and computer vision background sits underneath. They have taken models from problem framing all the way to deployment and monitoring.
Looking forLeaving gambling on ethical grounds and relocating to the Oxford area. Wants AI with some societal value behind it, and remote-first.
How they came acrossClear about what they haven't done as well as what they have, and raised their own gap on video data before we got near it. The research background shows in how carefully they frame things.
Python, SQL, PyTorch, scikit-learn · LangChain, LangGraph, AWS Bedrock, Sagemaker · Airflow, MLflow, Docker, Terraform
8 employers over 9 years across aerospace, civic technology, telecoms research, broadcasting and now gaming, including a computer vision startup and a university research post. Average tenure 1 year, longest stint 2 years.
Won't work in gambling or anything with comparable ethical baggage, and the role has to work from the Oxford area. Their own flagged gap is video data, they have image and computer vision experience but not video.
Masters in data science. AWS Machine Learning Specialty certified.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
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