United States  ·  United Kingdom

Our Talent Is
Finding Yours

FlowMint Talent is the go-to recruitment partner for AI, ML, and Forward Deployed hiring.

Your Vision. Our Experts. Your AI Talent Partner.
AI job growth vs all tech
$200k+
Senior AI salaries, US
81%
Companies adopting AI by 2027
70%
Of top AI talent are passive
Why FlowMint Talent

Specialist search.
No shortcuts.

Deep sector knowledge. A network built over time. And a straightforward commitment to quality over volume.

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Passive talent is where it starts

The professionals worth hiring aren’t scrolling job boards. They’re delivering at companies that value them — and they move only when the approach is right and the opportunity is better. We spend our time building those relationships before a role ever exists, so when your brief lands, we already know who fits.

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Genuine AI knowledge

We understand the sector, not just the job titles. That means we can have a real conversation with a candidate about their work, assess whether they’re genuinely exceptional, and brief you accurately — no guesswork.

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Built around your brief, not our database

We take the time to understand exactly what you need — the team, the culture, the technical requirements, and the reason someone outstanding should choose you over anyone else. Then we go and find that specific person.

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Dual-market reach

One relationship gives you access to the US and UK simultaneously. We actively work across San Francisco, New York, Austin, London and Manchester — and handle remote roles across both markets from a single point of contact.

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Retained and contingency

Senior and leadership AI roles handled on a retained basis — giving us the time and exclusivity to do the search properly. Mid-level roles on contingency, meaning you only pay on a successful hire.

90-day placement guarantee

Every placement is backed by a full 90-day replacement guarantee. If it doesn’t work out within that window for any reason, we find the right person at no additional charge.

The AI Talent Market

Why AI hiring is unlike
anything that’s
come before.

The demand for AI talent is not a trend — it is a structural shift in how every industry operates. Companies that don’t hire the right people now will spend the next decade trying to catch up. The numbers make it clear.

Faster growth in AI job postings vs all other tech roles combined
$1.3B
Global AI recruitment market size projected by 2033
54%
Of enterprises plan to increase AI hiring budgets in 2026
+58%
Year-on-year salary growth for AI specialists in the UK

Technology sector AI adoption

Tech companies89%

Financial services AI adoption

Banks, insurers, fintech76%

Healthcare AI adoption

Hospitals, biotech, pharma62%

Enterprise AI adoption by 2027

All sectors81%
How It Works

Every search starts
with your brief.
Not our archive.

We don’t recycle. Every assignment is approached as if the right person doesn’t exist yet — because often, for your specific situation, they haven’t been found yet.

1
Brief

We listen before we look

Before a single approach is made, we take time to understand the role properly — the team, the culture, the technical environment and the honest reasons this is a compelling move for the right person. That depth shapes everything that follows.

2
Search

Targeted. Discreet. Direct.

We identify the specific people worth approaching through market mapping and long-term relationship building — not keyword searches. We reach out directly, with a tailored conversation, to professionals who are performing well and only open to the right move. That’s a fundamentally different pool of talent to what a job posting reaches.

3
Qualify

You see fewer people. Better ones.

Every candidate is assessed properly before they reach you — their technical background, their motivations, their fit with your team and what they genuinely want next. You receive a shortlist with our written rationale for each person. Not volume. The right people, with a clear explanation of why.

4
Manage

Both sides, all the way through

We stay close from first conversation to signed offer — briefing candidates before each stage, relaying honest feedback and keeping exceptional people engaged. In a market where great candidates have options, how you run a process is part of your employer brand.

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Placed

Placed. And supported.

We advise on offer structure, manage the acceptance and stay in contact after the start date — making sure both sides are happy well beyond day one.

Who We Work With

Two conversations.
One standard.

Whether you’re building a team or looking for your next move, we approach both sides with the same level of care.

For Employers

You need to hire exceptional AI talent.

We find the people your competitors are already trying to hire — and we reach them first.

  • Every search built from scratch around your specific brief
  • We headhunt passive candidates — the ones not on job boards
  • You only see candidates we genuinely believe in, with our reasoning
  • US and UK coverage from a single relationship
  • Market salary benchmarking included as standard
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For Candidates

You want a role worth moving for.

We only represent people who are genuinely exceptional. If that’s you, we’ll find something worth moving for.

  • Access to roles that never reach public job boards
  • Honest salary benchmarking across the US and UK
  • Interview preparation from people who know this sector
  • We negotiate your offer — most candidates earn more than their ask
  • Completely confidential — your employer never finds out
  • US visa and relocation guidance for UK candidates
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Live Roles

Current Opportunities

A selection of the roles we are currently working. Select any role to read the full brief. All applications are handled in strict confidence.

Senior AI Engineer

$165,000 — $210,000
New York, NY Permanent Series B Confidential Client
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A Series B enterprise AI company building production LLM applications at scale is looking to add a Senior AI Engineer to its core product team. The company serves Fortune 500 clients and has a strong engineering culture with a bias towards shipping real things fast. You will own AI features end to end from architecture through to production deployment.

Essential Skills
  • Production RAG architecture — retrieval, reranking, context optimisation
  • LLM integration and prompt engineering at scale
  • Python, LangChain or LlamaIndex, vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate)
  • Cloud infrastructure — AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Experience shipping AI features into production with real users

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Founding Engineer

$180,000 — $240,000 + equity
San Francisco, CA Permanent Early Stage VC Backed Confidential Client
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An early stage agentic AI startup backed by a top tier US venture fund is making its first engineering hire. Reporting directly to the CTO, this person will define the technical architecture, make foundational technology decisions and build the engineering culture from scratch. The equity package is significant and reflects the founding nature of the role. If you want to build something from zero this is the opportunity.

Essential Skills
  • Strong full stack engineering background with AI engineering depth
  • Experience building agentic AI systems or autonomous workflows
  • Ability to make and own architectural decisions from day one
  • Python and at least one frontend framework
  • Comfort working in ambiguity at pace — this is a zero to one role

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Staff AI Engineer

$200,000 — $260,000
Austin, TX Permanent Series B Confidential Client
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A well funded AI infrastructure company scaling rapidly across enterprise markets is looking for a Staff AI Engineer to join its platform team. This is a technical leadership role — hands on delivery combined with team mentorship and contribution to technical strategy. The company has grown headcount by over 60% in the last year and this hire is central to maintaining engineering quality through that growth.

Essential Skills
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems and ML platform engineering
  • Inference optimisation — latency, cost reduction, throughput
  • Experience mentoring and technically leading engineering teams
  • Strong Python and systems design background
  • Track record of influencing technical direction at a senior level

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Machine Learning Engineer

$155,000 — $195,000
Boston, MA Permanent Series A Confidential Client
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A Series A healthcare AI company is building proprietary models on one of the largest clinical datasets in the US. The ML Engineer will work closely with clinical teams and data scientists to design, train and evaluate models that have a direct impact on patient outcomes. This is genuine ML engineering in a regulated environment — not prompt wrapping. The company has strong backing and a clear path to Series B.

Essential Skills
  • Model fine-tuning on domain specific datasets
  • Strong Python and PyTorch background
  • Experience working in regulated or compliance heavy environments
  • Evaluation frameworks — metrics design, bias testing, reliability
  • Healthcare or life sciences domain experience advantageous

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Forward Deployed Engineer

$200,000 — $300,000
Miami, FL Permanent Enterprise AI Confidential Client
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One of the most sought after roles in enterprise AI right now. This company embeds senior engineers directly within Fortune 500 client environments to take AI systems from proof of concept to production inside complex, often legacy organisations. You will be the person who makes AI actually work in the real world — owning the technical relationship with the client, solving the integration problems nobody else can and leaving behind a system that runs reliably long after you have moved on.

Essential Skills
  • Senior engineering background — full stack with strong Python
  • Experience deploying AI or complex software into enterprise client environments
  • Exceptional client communication — able to translate technical complexity to non-technical stakeholders
  • Comfortable working autonomously within client organisations
  • Willingness to travel to client sites as required
  • Agentic AI, RAG or LLM integration experience highly valued

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Senior Data Engineer

$140,000 — $175,000
New York, NY Permanent Series B Confidential Client
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A Series B fintech AI company is building the data infrastructure that powers real time AI decision making across financial services clients. The Senior Data Engineer will design and own the pipelines that feed the ML team — ensuring data quality, reliability and scalability as the platform grows. This is a role for someone who takes pride in building data infrastructure that genuinely works at scale.

Essential Skills
  • Strong data pipeline experience — Spark, dbt, Airflow or similar
  • Cloud data warehouse expertise — Snowflake, BigQuery or Redshift
  • Python proficiency and strong SQL
  • Experience working closely with ML engineering teams
  • Financial services or fintech domain experience advantageous

Full details and client name shared at first conversation stage. All enquiries handled in strict confidence.

Don’t see the right role? Send your CV to talent@flowmint-talent.com and we will be in touch when something relevant comes up.

Our Markets

Two of the world’s largest
AI hiring markets. One firm.

One relationship covers both the US and UK — giving employers a single contact for international hiring and candidates access to both markets.

United States

Highest salaries, deepest demand — our primary market
LevelBaseTotal comp
Junior0–2 yrs$120K – $170K$150K – $220K
Mid3–5 yrs$170K – $240K$230K – $380K
Senior5–8 yrs$220K – $310K$340K – $550K
Staff8–12 yrs$280K – $400K$500K – $800K
Principal12+ yrs$350K – $500K$700K – $1.2M+
Total comp includes base plus bonus and equity.
Key citiesSF · NY · Austin · Chicago
Remote roles60%+ of all briefs

United Kingdom

Fastest-growing AI talent market in Europe
LevelBaseTotal comp
Junior0–2 yrs£90K – £125K£110K – £165K
Mid3–5 yrs£125K – £180K£170K – £280K
Senior5–8 yrs£165K – £230K£250K – £410K
Staff8–12 yrs£205K – £295K£370K – £590K
Principal12+ yrs£260K – £370K£520K – £890K+
UK figures converted from US benchmarks at approximately £1 = $1.35.
Key citiesLondon · Manchester · Birmingham
Salary growth year on year+58%

The conversation
costs nothing.
The wrong hire does.

Tell us what you need or tell us what you want. Either way, we’ll give you a straight answer on whether we can help.

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