ML Engineering
Training, inference and the systems around them — from data pipelines to serving at scale.
Neural Networking
AI & ML talent — from frontier-lab ICs to the leaders who hire them.
The senior-only network for AI & ML talent
From members of technical staff at frontier labs to the heads of engineering who hire them. We place the people who build frontier AI — and we leave no stone unturned.
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Founding teams, senior ICs and hands-on technical leadership — sourced and vetted.
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Salary-transparent, candidate-first introductions to teams worth your time.
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Since 2016
Specialist AI/ML search
500+
Senior placements made
15.7k
Engaged network on LinkedIn
UK · US · EU
Where we place talent
What we cover
Deep specialism across the AI/ML stack
Applied Research / MLREs
Research engineers and scientists turning frontier ideas into shipped capability.
MLOps & Infra
GPU clusters, orchestration, eval harnesses and the platforms that keep models live.
Data
Data engineering and curation — the unglamorous work that decides model quality.
AI Product
Product leaders who understand both the model and the user on the other side of it.
Technical Leadership
Player-coach leads, heads of engineering and the founding teams who set the bar.
How it works
A process built around people
01
Calibrate
We map the role to your stack, stage and bar — not a generic spec.
02
Source deeply
We work our network and the wider market. We leave no stone unturned.
03
Shortlist
A tight slate of vetted, genuinely interested senior people.
04
Close
Salary-transparent, candidate-first process that gets offers signed.
Proof
Trusted on both sides of the table
“Hollie understood our model stack better than most engineers we interview. The shortlist was tiny and every single person was worth talking to.”
Placeholder Founder
Co-founder & CTO, frontier AI startup
“The first recruiter who actually got what I do as a research engineer. Salary on the table from day one, no games, genuinely in my corner.”
Placeholder Candidate
Placed as Staff ML Engineer
“We filled a founding-team role that had been open for six months in under three weeks. Leave no stone unturned is not just a tagline here.”
Placeholder VP Eng
VP Engineering, applied AI scale-up
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About
A decade in tech recruitment, and a passion for people
Neural Networking is led by Hollie Bayliss — genuinely technical, AI-native and salary-transparent. She places founding teams, senior individual contributors and hands-on technical leadership across the UK, US and Europe, from members of technical staff at frontier labs to the heads of engineering who hire them.
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