Search engine for founders hiring AI/ML engineers.
Quickly discover the right engineer via human-labelled traits. Filter by 3,000+ skills and 400+ labels, from what they’ve built to how they work, think, and communicate. Interview directly.
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Hiring an AI engineer shouldn’t be a second job.
Most founders try one of three things. Each costs something you don’t have.
Noise.
Your inbox floods with spam and recruiter pitches, and you’re the only one there to sort through it.
Your time.
It works, sometimes. Mostly it’s days of outreach followed by silence.
A misaligned hire.
They keep pushing candidates who don’t fit, because nobody ever pinned down what fit means.
Discover engineers on your own, by the traits you actually care about.
Easy steps to your next hire.
Find
Search in plain English. Find the engineer who fits.
Interview
Talk to engineers directly. No middleman.
Hire
Direct hire or contract.
Every engineer is interviewed
and labelled by three experts.
We do the unscalable part, so you get to the shortlist faster.
- Identity verified
- Work history verified
- US work permit
- Worked with US teams
“Takes a vague problem, scopes it, ships a first version in days, then explains the tradeoffs without jargon.”
What a label means.
A glimpse of how one trait is labelled.
- Started work nobody assigned themObserved
- Unblocked themselves when the path was unclearObserved
- Confidential
“Releases kept slipping because evals took two days, so I rebuilt the pipeline over a weekend and got it under an hour.”
Clear indicators and criteria
Every label ties back to the call
Keeps labelling more objective
A human signs off every label
Filter by the traits that matter to you.
What résumés miss, verified by real experts and searchable.
No filter for it? Write your own.
Add up to five criteria in plain English. We show who qualifies.
- Has shipped an LLM feature to paying users
- Was an early engineer at a startup
- Comfortable owning both infra and product
- Add your own criteria
Why founders search instead of post.
| Criteria | TeamEx | Posting on X/LinkedIn | Working with Recruiters |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who you see | Candidates interviewed and labelled by three experts | Whoever replies, usually spam | Whoever the recruiter picks |
| How you define fit | Skills, things they’ve built, how they work, think, and communicate | Read résumés and guess | A job description you had to write |
| Your time | One search to a shortlist | Hours/days sorting inbound | Weeks of back-and-forth |
| Talking to candidates | Directly | Directly | Through a middleman |
| If it doesn’t work out | 90-day free replacement | Start over | Varies by firm |
Pay when you hire.
No subscription. No annual contract. No recruiting stack to buy.
- One-time, only when you hire
- Interview and negotiate directly
- 90-day free replacement
- Monthly billing
- Interview and negotiate directly
- 90-day free replacement
Read the full Client Service Agreement.
Questions founders ask
Every engineer has three calls. A recruiter verifies work history, identity and credentials. An engineer goes deep on skills, specialty, projects and products built. A team lead explores how they work, think, and communicate.
No. Describe who you need in plain English, the way you’d explain it to a cofounder. We turn it into filters you can adjust, and you can add up to five custom criteria of your own.
In the US, Canada and LATAM. You can filter by location, US work permit and experience working with US teams.
Direct hire: a 25% placement fee, paid once when you hire. Contract: a 25% margin. There’s no subscription.
Every hire comes with a 90-day free replacement. Conditions apply.
Founders of US pre-seed to Series A startups building AI-native products, who hire every so often and don’t have a recruiting team.
Your next AI/ML engineer is one search away.
Describe them in a sentence. See who fits. Hire.
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