u/AdamOfTheWater

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to sanity-check salary expectations for a potential AI Engineer role at an early-stage healthtech startup based in Cambridge.

Context:

I have around 3–4 years of professional experience in deep learning / machine learning, mostly across applied AI, computer vision, biomedical or healthcare-related modelling, and more recently some GenAI / LLM-related work. I already worked in Cambridge in a health-related field, just after my Master's Degree.

The role would likely involve building predictive models in healthcare, working with patient-level data, risk modelling, and representation learning. It seems like a fairly core technical role rather than a generic ML support position.

The company is based in Cambridge, but I will remain based in Paris / France and travel to Cambridge roughly one week per month.

I’m trying to understand whether I should benchmark this against Cambridge salaries, London-adjacent AI salaries, or remote-from-Europe compensation.

A few questions:

1. What would be a reasonable base salary range for this kind of AI Engineer role?
2. For an early-stage startup, what kind of equity range would be reasonable for a non-founder but core AI engineer?
3. Should travel and accommodation for the Cambridge weeks normally be covered separately?
4. If I’m based in France, should I be thinking in terms of UK employment, EOR, or contractor setup?
5. Would £65k–70k base + equity + covered travel costs be reasonable, too low, or too high for this profile and setup?

My current thinking is that something around £65k–70k base, plus some equity and covered travel costs, sounds reasonable, but I’d like to know whether that’s aligned with the UK market or if I’m misjudging it.

Thanks.

Hello everyone,

I’m trying to sanity-check salary expectations for a potential AI Engineer role at an early-stage healthtech startup based in Cambridge.

Context:

I have around 3–4 years of professional experience in deep learning / machine learning, mostly across applied AI, computer vision, biomedical or healthcare-related modelling, and more recently some GenAI / LLM-related work. I already worked in Cambridge in a health-related field, just after my Master's Degree.

The role would likely involve building predictive models in healthcare, working with patient-level data, risk modelling, and representation learning. It seems like a fairly core technical role rather than a generic ML support position.

The company is based in Cambridge, but I will remain based in Paris / France and travel to Cambridge roughly one week per month.

I’m trying to understand whether I should benchmark this against Cambridge salaries, London-adjacent AI salaries, or remote-from-Europe compensation.

A few questions:

1. What would be a reasonable base salary range for this kind of AI Engineer role?
2. For an early-stage startup, what kind of equity range would be reasonable for a non-founder but core AI engineer?
3. Should travel and accommodation for the Cambridge weeks normally be covered separately?
4. If I’m based in France, should I be thinking in terms of UK employment, EOR, or contractor setup?
5. Would £65k–70k base + equity + covered travel costs be reasonable, too low, or too high for this profile and setup?

My current thinking is that something around £65k–70k base, plus some equity and covered travel costs, sounds reasonable, but I’d like to know whether that’s aligned with the UK market or if I’m misjudging it.

Thanks.