■ Four practices, one standard
Practices
Each practice is run by a partner who has done the job or hired for it for a decade. We only take briefs we believe we can fill, and we turn down about a third.
01 — Led by Ines Varga · 118 placements
AI & ML research
Research scientists and engineers who own a problem from paper to production. We know which labs are hiring, what the compute budget really is, and who has actually shipped a model people use.
Pre-training and scaling
Post-training and RLHF
Evaluation and safety
Applied research
Research engineering
Founding research hires
Fig. 01 — ai & ml research
02 — Led by Priya Raman · 96 placements
Inference & infrastructure
The engineers who keep models and markets running in production: serving, GPU efficiency, data platforms and the on-call rota nobody wants to own. Most arrive from hyperscalers and want to own something end to end.
Model serving and inference
GPU and kernel performance
Training infrastructure
Data platforms
Reliability and SRE
Security engineering
Fig. 02 — inference & infrastructure
03 — Led by Tomas Brenner · 131 placements
Quant & trading
Researchers who own a signal end to end, and the engineers who make it tradable. Most of these searches start with a pod lead, not HR, and end with someone who had not spoken to a recruiter in years.
Signal research
Portfolio construction
Low-latency C++ and FPGA
Execution and routing
Market data
Research platforms
Fig. 03 — quant & trading
04 — Led by Marcus Oyelaran · 67 placements
Leadership & team builds
Whole functions, not single seats. Some of these searches start with one head of engineering and end, years later, with a desk, a platform team and the person running both.
VP and Head of Engineering
Chief Scientist
Head of Research
CTO and co-founder
New desk build-outs
Multi-year hiring plans
Fig. 04 — leadership & team builds
■ Across practices
Most of our hardest searches cross two practices.
A head of inference at a trading firm. A research lead for a robotics seed round. We staff those searches with two partners, and you still get one point of contact.
Retained search
A third of first-year cash
Paid in three stages: on brief, on shortlist and on start. Includes the one-year guarantee.
Team builds
A fixed monthly retainer
For three or more hires in a function. We plan the order of hires with you and run them as one search.
Market maps
£18,000, fixed
A named map of every team doing the work, delivered in three weeks. Useful before a raise or a reorganisation.