Out of interest, how are you searching for roles? I ask because we have (what I believe to be) a very interesting engineering problem to solve but a lot of the

Out of interest, how are you searching for roles? I ask because we have (what I believe to be) a very interesting engineering problem to solve but a lot of the recruiters out there will plug the hedge fund and fintech jobs because those guys are willing to pay absolute top of market and therefore pay more in commission to the recruiter. I wouldn’t get caught up thinking about titles because they mean different things to different people. There’s really interesting work out there for someone of your experience and increasingly more interesting startups in the Uk. You just gotta look a bit harder for it. We are searching for a ‘principal software’ engineer to join our team. I think we have a different engineering setup to many startups because it’s very multi-disciplinary in nature: plant science, ml/optimisation, software engineering, sensor/embedded tech. So our idea of a principal swe is someone who spends some of their time as an ic and some of their time helping others to upskill in software engineering - this could be junior swes or senior plant scientists. I know that for other companies ‘principal engineer’ could be a product owner role or it could be a chief architect role or it could be more of a floating mentor.