# SilkTalent

> SilkTalent is an AI-native recruiting partner for Series A to C technology companies hiring in AI
> and physical AI. One specialist recruiter from the top 1% owns each role. Custom AI agents score
> engineers across 50+ sources on the systems they shipped and the scale they ran, and the recruiter
> interviews every candidate against the job description before a profile reaches the client.

SilkTalent runs the search and delivers an interviewed shortlist. It is a recruiting service, not a
job board, not a candidate database and not software: there is nothing to sign up for and no list to
browse. Companies engage SilkTalent for a specific open role.

Site: https://silktalent.ai/ · Last updated: 2026-09-18

## Roles SilkTalent fills

Engineering and data, from the first specialist hire up to director and VP level:

- **Research Engineers** — from Research Engineer to Head of Research: engineers who have turned
papers into working systems and can take new models into production.
- **Forward Deployed Engineers** — from Forward Deployed Engineer to Head of Solutions: engineers
who have shipped with enterprise customers and can turn a pilot into a live rollout.
- **Robotics Engineers** — from Robotics Engineer to Director of Robotics: engineers who have moved
robots out of the lab and can own perception, planning and control.
- **Hardware & Physical AI** — from Hardware Engineer to VP of Hardware: engineers who have taken
devices from prototype to production and can bring AI into the physical world.
- **Machine Learning Engineers** — from ML Engineer to Head of AI: engineers who have shipped models
to production and can turn an AI prototype into a feature customers rely on.
- **Data Scientists** — from Data Scientist to Head of Data Science: data scientists who have moved
a core business metric and can turn analysis into product decisions.

Go-to-market roles that carry quota — account executives, SDRs and customer success managers — are
covered on https://silktalent.ai/gtm.

## How a search runs

1. **Intake call.** Starts with the people who know the bar best, not with a job description.
2. **Signal scoring.** Custom AI agents scan 50+ sources and score every signal, not just keywords:
the systems a candidate shipped and the scale they ran.
3. **Recruiter validation.** One specialist recruiter checks and interviews every candidate against
the role and keeps only what holds up.
4. **Shortlist.** Matches land in the client’s Slack channel, every one worth an interview.

Work samples test what the role actually needs: system design under real constraints, code review on
the client’s kind of codebase, and the trade-offs a candidate makes when requirements conflict.

## Terms

- A placement fee agreed before the search starts. No retainer, and no charge for the shortlist.
- The client pays only when the person they hired starts.
- Every placement carries a guarantee period. If the hire does not work out inside it, the recruiter
reopens the search at no additional fee.

## How SilkTalent differs from a recruiting agency

An agency reads titles and forwards résumés. SilkTalent puts one specialist from the top 1% on the
role, and that recruiter interviews every candidate against the job description before the client
sees a profile.

SilkTalent has placed candidates at fast-growing startups backed by Y Combinator, SoftBank,
Andreessen Horowitz, Pioneer Fund, CRV and Global Founders Capital.

## When SilkTalent fits

- A Series A to C company needs to hire AI, ML, robotics, hardware or data people and wants an
interviewed shortlist rather than a stream of résumés.
- The role is hard to judge from a CV and needs evidence of shipped work.
- The team is hiring its first specialist in a field, or a lead, director or VP for it.

## When it does not fit

- Someone looking for a job board, a résumé database or sourcing software. SilkTalent sells neither
access nor seats.
- Roles outside engineering, data and go-to-market.
- Job seekers: the site has no application flow. Candidates are found and approached by the
recruiter running a search.

## Pages

- [Home](https://silktalent.ai/): what SilkTalent does, the roles it fills, how a search runs, terms.
- [Engineering roles](https://silktalent.ai/tech): AI-native recruiting for the engineers who ship
the roadmap.
- [Go-to-market roles](https://silktalent.ai/gtm): AI-native recruiting for AEs, SDRs and CSMs who
carry quota.

## Contact

Booking runs through the form on any page of https://silktalent.ai/ — the “Book Demo” button in the
navigation or “Get a shortlist” in the hero. The form asks for an email, a name and what the company
is hiring for, and a recruiter replies to arrange the intake call.