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Hiring AI and data engineers in Australia

Permanent roles, senior through to principal. We assess candidates ourselves and send you a short list with the reasoning attached.

How we engage

Permanent

Contingency search

Full search for permanent roles. You pay nothing unless you hire someone we introduced.

  • A real briefing on the system, the data and the team, not a job description read back to you
  • Direct approach to engineers who are employed and not applying anywhere
  • Three to five candidates, each with a written technical assessment
  • Interview coordination, offer management and reference checks
  • Three-month replacement guarantee
  • Australian candidates only, no offshore

Our fee is a fixed percentage of the first-year package. We tell you the number on the first call, before you commit to anything.

How the search runs

Four stages. The first one is where most of the value is, and it is the one that most often gets rushed.

Step one

Briefing

Thirty minutes with whoever the engineer will report to. What the system has to do, what it has to reach, what already exists, and who owns it once it is running. We will also tell you whether the brief as written is fillable.

Step two

Search

Direct approach through our network, plus targeted outreach to engineers who match the actual work rather than the keywords. We work a small number of roles at once, which is what makes this possible.

Step three

Assessment

A founder runs the technical conversation. You get three to five people with written notes on what each has built, how they were assessed, and where they would need support.

Step four

Offer and start

We coordinate interviews, do technical reference checks, manage the offer, and stay involved through the notice period. Most of the risk in a hire sits in that last stage.

What we will tell you straight

  • If the way the role is written will put off the people you want
  • If the role is really two jobs and needs splitting
  • If we do not think we can fill it, on the first call rather than after a month
  • What we actually thought of a candidate, including the reservations

Tell us about the role

Thirty minutes is enough for us to say whether it is fillable and who is available.

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