Brief
One call. The workflow, the gap, the systems the person will touch
Hiring
Engineers who have shipped AI, on your team.
Forward-deployed and AI/ML engineers who have put agent systems into production. Vetted against the work.
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Forward-deployed engineers
Embedded with your team until the system runs on its own.
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ML engineers
Data pipelines, evaluation, and model choices that hold up in production.
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Agent builders
Agents that check before they act and hand the exceptions to a person.
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AI product managers
Scope what a model decides and what a person must.
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Domain experts
People who ran the function in finance, recruiting, or logistics.
Engagement types
Three ways to bring someone on.
- Contract
- The engineer works on your team through us, for a defined phase.
- Contract-to-hire
- Start on contract. Move the engineer to your payroll when you are ready.
- Direct hire
- The engineer is your employee from day one.
All three are for roles based in the US.
Process
Three steps, each with a timebox.
- 01 30 minutes
- 02 Rolling
Shortlist
First profiles within two weeks, then more as they clear our screen. Two to four people who have shipped this kind of system
- 03 Your call
Embed or hire
Contract, contract-to-hire, or direct hire. Same person either way
The bar
Vetted by builders, not by keyword.
We run these systems ourselves, so a candidate has to clear the bar our own work clears. We can tell someone who has shipped an agent from someone who has read about one.
What we screen for
Ownership of the outcome, not AI vocabulary.
Every question is about one system the candidate built and ran. We ask for specifics a resume cannot supply.
- What broke
- Can they explain what failed in production, how they found it, and what they changed?
- Who owned the result
- Did they own whether it worked for the customer, or one part of the build?
- The data underneath
- Can they describe the main table, its keys, and where the data comes from?
- How it was tested
- Can they say how many test cases there were, who labeled them, and which releases the tests blocked?
FAQ
The questions we get about hiring.
Contract or permanent?
Either. Contract and contract-to-hire run through us for a defined phase. Direct hires are yours from day one.
How is this priced?
Contract: a monthly rate per person. Direct hire: a placement fee. Both discussed on the brief call.
Can a placement become a deployment, or the reverse?
Yes. Placed people work the way we do, so moving between the two is a conversation, not a restart.
Do you place outside finance, recruiting, and logistics?
Engineers and product managers, yes. Domain experts only where we've run the function ourselves.
Describe the role
Tell us who you're missing.
30 minutes. You describe the gap; we tell you whether we have the person and how fast.