AI Engineer Recruitment

Hire AI Engineers Who Can Actually Ship

Specialist recruitment for LLM engineers, ML engineers, and AI-native product teams — screened by a founder who is a Claude Certified Architect, not a generalist recruiter guessing at buzzwords.

AI hiring is full of inflated titles and copy-pasted resumes. We know the difference between someone who can talk about RAG and someone who has shipped it in production.

Why AI Engineer Hiring Is Different

Standard tech recruitment doesn't work well for AI roles. Here's why companies struggle — and why a specialist screen changes the outcome.

Job titles don't mean anything yet

"AI Engineer," "ML Engineer," "Prompt Engineer" and "AI Product Manager" mean different things at different companies. Most recruiters can't tell them apart — we can, and we'll tell you which one your role actually needs.

The discipline is barely a few years old

LLM engineering — RAG, agents, evals, fine-tuning — has existed as a distinct skill since roughly 2023. There's no "10 years of LLM experience." Depth has to be assessed on production judgment, not tenure.

Hype inflates resumes

Everyone added "AI" to their resume in the last two years. Filtering real production experience from a weekend hackathon project takes someone who can ask real technical questions, not keyword-match.

Small, fast-moving pool

The best AI engineers are heads-down shipping, not job hunting. And the field moves fast enough that "senior" from 18 months ago may already be behind on tooling that matters today.

What We Look For — and How We Assess It

We don't keyword-match resumes for "LLM" or "GPT." Every candidate goes through a structured technical screen before they reach your desk.

  • Practical understanding of RAG, fine-tuning, evals and agent architectures — not just familiarity with the terms
  • Judgment about where LLMs actually help vs. where they don't — a good AI engineer says "no" to bad ideas
  • Production experience: something that handles real users, not just a notebook demo
  • For ML-heavy roles: solid fundamentals in statistics and model evaluation beneath the LLM tooling
  • Comfortable operating with the ambiguity of a fast-changing field
Screened by a Claude Certified Architect

Founder Vadym Lobariev holds Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect credential — hands-on experience building with Claude and LLM tooling, not just reading about it. That means technical screens that test real AI/LLM fluency.

90 days
Replacement Guarantee

Same guarantee as every MindHunt placement — if a hire leaves within 90 days, we start a new search on your behalf.

UA · EU · US
Search Coverage

We place AI/ML talent for European and US companies, sourcing across Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and beyond.

AI & ML Roles We Place

"AI Engineer" means different things to different companies. We scope the right role for what you actually need.

LLM / AI Engineer

Builds and ships LLM-powered features: RAG pipelines, agents, tool use, evals, prompt and context engineering.

ML Engineer

Trains, fine-tunes and deploys models. Strong in the underlying statistics, data pipelines and infrastructure that LLM tooling sits on top of.

MLOps / AI Infrastructure Engineer

Owns the pipelines, monitoring, cost control and scaling behind AI systems once they're in production.

AI Product Manager

Translates LLM capabilities into product decisions — understands both what the technology can do and where it breaks.

How Our AI Engineer Search Works

Six steps. Full transparency. Weekly updates.

01

Discovery Call

We map what your product actually needs from an AI hire — often a narrower, more specific brief than "someone who knows AI."

02

Market Mapping

We identify credible candidates across the roles that fit: LLM engineers, ML engineers, MLOps, AI product — not just whoever has "AI" in their headline.

03

Direct, Confidential Outreach

The strongest AI engineers aren't applying to job boards. We reach them through direct, personal outreach.

04

Technical AI/LLM Screening

Structured technical assessment run by someone who actually builds with this technology — see "Screened by a Claude Certified Architect" below.

05

Shortlist Presentation

You receive fully vetted profiles with our written assessment of each candidate's real (not claimed) AI/LLM depth.

06

Offer & Onboarding

We guide the offer process and stay involved through onboarding to make sure the hire lands well.

AI Engineer Recruitment — Common Questions

Ready to Hire Your AI Team?

Tell us about the role and we'll map the market for you — no commitment required for an initial conversation.

90-day replacement guarantee · Confidential search · Screened by a Claude Certified Architect