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A firm built
for the frontier.

Deep Abacus is a team of talent acquisition specialists building well-rounded, data-driven teams for the frontier of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Intelligent Automation. Founded in 2020, headquartered in the UK, with senior operators on the ground in New York and Santa Monica.

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Founder

Rebaz
Founder & CEO

A decade recruiting into AI, four continents, one obsession. Every engagement Deep Abacus takes on begins with a call to Rebaz.

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  1. 2011

    Grew up in London. Graduate in Economics.

  2. 2012

    Began recruiting in technical engineering disciplines.

  3. 2015

    Relocated to NYC to lead Machine Learning recruitment across the US for the largest global analytics staffing firm.

  4. 2020

    Founded Deep Abacus to bring deep recruitment expertise across Machine Learning, NLP and Computer Vision.

The team

Senior operators, on three coasts.

A tight team of ~17 specialists. Every mandate is led end-to-end by a director — never handed to a junior sourcer.

  • Rebaz

    Founder & CEO

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  • Andy Jackson

    Director of Talent — AI & Software Engineering

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  • Alex Cooper

    Director — Data Science Staffing Solutions

    Santa MonicaLinkedIn ↗

  • The wider team

    Consultants, researchers & operations across LLMs, CV, ML & data

    London · NYC · LA
Firm history

Selected engagements.

Google-equivalent levels shown in parentheses.

  1. 2015Data Science Team for Fox Studios, LA(L5 – L6)
  2. 2016Core ML Team for IBM Global Business Services / Weather Company(L5 – L7)
  3. 2017AI Leadership for JP Morgan CIB(L5 – L8)
  4. 2018Core AI team for United Technologies' $300M Digital Accelerator(L5 – L6)
  5. 2019Core ML Developers for Kroger's 84.51(L5 – L6)
  6. 2020AI Leadership for CVS Health (Fortune #4)(L6 – L10)
  7. 2021Leadership team for Event-Tech unicorn Pollen, incl. Instagram's CMO(L10)
  8. 2022ML Engineers for Amazon's second largest global AI group (CTPS)(L5 – L8)
  9. 2023NLP & LLM team for disruptive LLM scale-up Writer(L6 – L9)
Featured hire

Principal AI Science Manager @ Amazon (L8)

15+ years of hands-on and management experience across Deep Learning, Computer Vision and NLP. Ph.D. in Computer Science. Distinguished in cutting-edge development of transformers and recommender systems. Placed by Deep Abacus.

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