Specialist permanent AI hiring for organisations scaling delivery capacity, expanding product teams, or strengthening core AI capability.
Our permanent search solution is designed for organisations hiring specialist AI & Data talent at pace, where execution speed matters but technical depth and cultural fit cannot be compromised.
This model is well suited to teams scaling delivery capacity, expanding product teams, or strengthening core AI capability without the complexity of a retained engagement.
Delivery deadlines, product releases, or transformation milestones demand pace.
Top candidates have multiple options and short decision windows.
High CV volume but low technical relevance wastes leadership time.
Teams struggle to balance speed with long-term fit and retention.
AI roles require specialist evaluation beyond keyword matching.
We work continuously within AI & Data markets, maintaining live pipelines across priority skill sets.
Every candidate is vetted for real-world AI delivery experience and relevance to your environment.
We filter aggressively so hiring managers only meet candidates who meet agreed success criteria.
Honest insight on availability, competition, and compensation, enabling faster decisions.
Ideal for single hires or multi-role campaigns as your team grows.
We align on role requirements, technical stack, team structure, and timeline, ensuring clear priorities and realistic market expectations.
We activate search across our AI talent network, passive candidates in relevant ecosystems, and active channels - fast, focused, aligned.
Candidates are assessed against core technical capability, delivery experience, and environment fit. Only well-qualified candidates progress.
A focused shortlist with candidate context, technical and commercial insight, plus interview scheduling and feedback calibration.
Offer positioning, market benchmarking, and counter-offer risk management, secure the hire quickly and cleanly.
We value expertise and relationships over traditional agency sales tactics, focusing on long-term AI maturity.
Find out more about us→We understand modern AI systems. From LLM pipelines and MLOps to industrial ML and edge deployment, we screen for real capability, not keywords.
We align talent delivery to business outcomes, faster product velocity, reduced project risk, and sustainable AI capability.
Our work is underpinned by ongoing insight into AI hiring trends, compensation data, and evolving skill requirements across Europe.
Retained search, permanent hiring, and contract/freelance, designed around how AI teams actually scale.
“Oxygen Digital understands the nuance of production AI better than any partner we’ve worked with. They don’t just match keywords, they find engineers who can actually ship.”
“Same-week shortlist of three senior MLOps engineers, all relevant. We hired two. Cleanest recruitment process we’ve run in years.”
“They took the time to understand our roadmap before sending a single CV. That’s rare and it shows in the quality of people we’ve placed.”
Reach out today to set up a free 30-minute call. Whether you’re hiring your first ML engineer or scaling a global AI team, we’re here to discuss your goals.
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