Search engine for founders hiring AI/ML engineers.
Quickly discover the right engineer from evidence of their real work. Filter by 3,000+ skills and 400+ traits, from what they've built to how they work, think, and communicate. Interview directly.
Free to search Free to interview Pay only when you hire
Hiring an AI engineer shouldn’t be a second job.
Most founders try one of three things. Each costs you something.
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.
Profiles that build themselves.
Engineers connect their work. Every source becomes evidence on a live profile.
- Coding Sessions
- GitHub
- Hugging Face
- YouTube
- Twitch
- Writing
- X
- AI Interviews
- Expert Interviews
- AI support agentConsumer app, millions of chats
- Recommendation engineE-commerce, Series B
- Semantic searchB2B SaaS, seed
- High Agency
- Clear Communicator
- Product Sense
Filter by the traits that matter to you.
What résumés miss, backed by evidence 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 | Engineers ranked by evidence of their real work, every fact sourced | 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 engineers | Directly | Directly | Through a middleman |
| If it doesn’t work out | 90-day second-hire guarantee | Start over | Varies by firm |
Pay when you hire.
No subscription. No annual contract. No recruiting stack to buy.
- One-time fee
- Search all engineer profiles free
- Interview and negotiate directly
- 90-day second-hire guarantee
7% after your 3rd hire
- No placement fee
- Search all engineer profiles free
- Interview and negotiate directly
- 90-day second-hire guarantee
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Questions founders ask
Engineers connect their work: coding-agent sessions, GitHub, Hugging Face, talks, writing and posts. They can add AI interviews and interviews with expert interviewers, each on one area. Every fact on a profile ties back to its source and date, and search ranks profiles by strength and recency.
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: 9% of first-year salary, paid once after the engineer starts, with an $8,000 minimum and 7% after your 3rd hire. Contract: 19% of your monthly bill, with a six-month minimum.
Every hire comes with a 90-day second-hire guarantee: if it doesn’t work out, you get a second hire at no fee. On a direct hire, if 2nd hire doesn’t work out either, you get a full refund. 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.
Keep reading
- How TeamEx works The search, how engineer profiles are built, and how a hire happens.
- Pricing Free to search and interview. 9% of first-year salary or 19% of your monthly bill, only when you hire.
- Direct hire The engineer joins your payroll. One placement fee, paid after they start.
- Contractor of Record The engineer works with your team on contract through a verified provider.
- Founder-led hiring Why founders should run their first engineering hires themselves.
- TeamEx vs recruiting agencies Who decides who you interview, and what it costs.
Your next AI/ML engineer is one search away.
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