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ENGINEERING ROLES
Expert recruiters and custom AI agents score every engineer on the systems they shipped and the scale they ran — not their titles.
only top scored & vetted professionals
Maya O.
ML / AI Engineer
40M req/day
Daniel R.
Founding Engineer
0→1 · 3 shipped
Priya N.
Backend Engineer
99.98% uptime
Marcus T.
ML Platform Eng
−38% infra cost
Elena K.
VP Engineering
scaled 3 → 22 eng
Maya O.
ML / AI Engineer
40M req/day
Daniel R.
Founding Engineer
0→1 · 3 shipped
Priya N.
Backend Engineer
99.98% uptime
Marcus T.
ML Platform Eng
−38% infra cost
Elena K.
VP Engineering
scaled 3 → 22 eng
WHY SILKTALENT
Traditional Agency:
Slow
Roles sit open for months while features wait, on-call thins, and the roadmap slips
Resume-based
They read titles and keywords — a resume can’t tell a builder from a buzzword
Costly
A 20–25%-of-salary fee on every hire, paid whether the engineer ships or not
SilkTalent:
Fast
AI agents source GitHub, OSS and 50+ channels, so you meet builders while the seat is still open
Performance-based
Every engineer is scored on systems shipped, scale handled and real depth — verified, not claimed
Human judgment, AI speed
Recruiters who judge real depth make the call, at far lower cost than the agency model
HOW IT WORKS
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Every engineer does a real work sample
Not just a chat. A system-design exercise, work sample or code review scored on one rubric — so you see how they think and build before the first interview.
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Built for Series A–C tech teams
One focus: 20–500-person tech teams hiring critical engineers with no full talent bench. The bar is calibrated to your stack, stage and roadmap.
THE COST OF VACANCY
Resumes don’t predict performance. We verify the signals that do — before you ever interview.
Engineering seats stall roadmaps
Every week a senior seat sits open is a feature your competitor ships first.
Titles don’t predict depth
A senior title and a famous logo say nothing about whether they can design the system you need. A work sample does.
Mis-hires compound the cost
A wrong senior engineer costs $150–250K+ in salary and severance, plus lost months and a new search.
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What makes this different from a traditional recruiting agency?
Resume-first agencies haven’t changed their process in a decade. We’re AI-native end-to-end and score candidates on verified production AI work plus live coding and system-design exercises — proof, not pitch.
How do you verify what someone has shipped?
Structured candidate self-report, depth probes on systems they claim to have built, targeted reference checks with people who shipped with them, and review of public code where available. We flag candidates whose claims we can’t corroborate.
What do the technical assessments actually test?
Live coding tasks and system-design probes calibrated to your stack. AI scores each candidate on code quality, architecture decisions, and how they reason about production edge cases. You see the screen results alongside the candidate’s shipping history.
What does this cost?
Contingent — you pay only when a candidate signs and starts. Retainer pricing is available for clients hiring multiple roles per quarter. We’ll share specifics on the intake call.
What if the hire doesn’t work out?
If a placed candidate leaves or is terminated in the first 90 days, we re-run the search and refill the seat.
Which engineering roles do you fill?
Engineering roles for AI-native B2B and developer tools companies are our current focus — ML, applied AI, founding, forward deployed, and research engineers. We’ll consider adjacent technical roles when there’s a strong need. Talk to us on the intake call.
How fast can you actually deliver?
Days, not weeks — AI does the manual recruiting work in hours instead of weeks. We’ll commit to a timeline on the intake call once we’ve scoped the role.
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