alt Hacker News+1, I have a friend, math PhD that's been working on ML research 5+ years in London yet he has not been able to find any position.
The only jobs that he found he was highly over qualified or paid very little.
In any case, it doesn't look like there's this crazy rush to hire all ML talent, even the one that understand the math and technology deeply.
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As always and everywhere, it's who you know (and who knows you) that matters.
I mean it makes sense right? Anthropic for instance has like, a couple hundred staff in London with plans to expand to somewhere just shy of a thousand. There are far far more ML/Maths/CS/Stats PhD's than there are openings. Especially in London there is no shortage of suitable candidates given Cambridge/Oxford/Imperial/UCL are surrounding it. 2% of the UK population has a PhD alone...
> +1, I have a friend, math PhD that's been working on ML research 5+ years in London yet he has not been able to find any position.
Maybe people simply don't want math PhDs but something else? Since 1-2 years ago I started doing consulting/freelancing in the ML space, but more on the infrastructure, deployments and similar stuff, as a general purpose developer, and I have a waiting list of clients interested in more work, some of them even trying to recruit me to work for them full-time as well. I'm based in continental Europe, fwiw.