TalentPipe
Applied AI recruiting.
Applied AI recruiting for engineers who build LLM orchestration, fine-tuning, agentic systems, and graph RAG. Full comp ranges upfront.
Placed engineers at companies backed by Insight Partners, a16z, Sequoia, and Khosla
// LIVE ROLES
Applied ML Research · £150K–£260K · Equity (Series D)
Senior ML Research Engineer
Proprietary LLMs handling 80%+ of production traffic. You own the training loop: SFT, DPO, GRPO, evals, synthetic data.
Python · PyTorch · LLM training infrastructure · evaluation frameworks
Series D · ~250 people · London or SF · 5 days in-office
Applied AI · £100K–£160K · Equity at Series A pricing
Founding Software Engineer
Voice AI for home services. AI receptionist across voice, email, WhatsApp. $13M Series A, Blackbird-led, YC. 30% MoM growth.
Python · FastAPI · Postgres · GCP · Kubernetes · LLM orchestration · voice streaming
Series A · 14 people · Old Street, London · 5 days in-office · visa sponsorship
Applied AI · £105K–£130K · Equity
AI Engineer
Intelligence layer for CFOs. AI agents, real-time variance analysis, graph RAG, multi-agent orchestration. Not a chatbot.
Python · graph RAG · multi-agent frameworks · LLM orchestration
Pre-seed, raising seed · 10 people · London + Amsterdam · 2-3 days in-office
Founding Engineer · Up to ~£200K · 0.5–1%+ equity
Founding Full Stack Engineer
CNC orchestration for aerospace and defence. Building "manufacturing general intelligence." First external engineering hire.
Python · TypeScript · full stack · AI integration
Seed, Series A imminent · 15 people · London · 5 days in-office
// WHO I AM
Rich Roberts
BSc Computer Science (First Class), Bristol. AI thesis. Logica Prize.
LLM orchestration, fine-tuning (SFT, DPO, GRPO), agentic systems, graph RAG, voice AI. This specific corner of the market, nothing else.
I review GitHub before I reach out. I've sat in intake calls at 11 London AI companies and heard what got the previous candidate cut. That information sits in my head when I prep you.
You deal with me directly. Not a junior researcher using my name.
// WHY WORK WITH ME
I reviewed your GitHub before I reached out.
I share the exact comp range by level before you decide.
I was in the intake calls at 11 London AI companies and heard what got the previous candidate cut, not what the JD says they're testing.
I've turned down clients I can't vouch for.
// TESTIMONIALS
"I interviewed a lot of candidates before. None of them matched our technical and cultural requirements. All 3 you've presented are a great match, thank you!" — Karthik Dinakar, Founder, Pienso
"Having gone through numerous hiring processes and various recruiters, I can confidently say that Rich stands out from the rest." — Andrew Casey, Senior Software Engineer
"They found our CTO and core engineering talent in weeks, during a time when these skills were almost impossible to find." — Sath Ganesarajah, Founder & CEO, Lake Parime
"Rich served as an invaluable partner to our portfolio companies." — Kaitlyn Doig, Director, Insight Partners
"I have never seen our technical guys so positive about any candidate before." — Pawel Hytry, CEO, Spacelift
// CONTACT
Email: rich.roberts@talentpipe.ai