Recruiting specialists at the intersection of AI and Search
Access an expert community of engineers, data scientists, and product professionals to integrate LLM-enhanced search, build recommendation systems and more.
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Professionals at the intersection of AI and Search are rare. Like 1 in 2,500 rare. We’ll connect you to them.
We’ll find the right person for the job because we’ve actually done the job.
Singular candidates
All talent is hand-curated through building relationships. We don’t scrape profiles or buy data.
Proprietary assessments
Everyone takes an assessment we developed in-house to vet expertise across the architectural components, roles, and tasks required to run production-grade AI & Search systems.
A lasting match
Candidates are interviewed by our search experts to learn their preferences, motivations, and ideal fit. A critical part of making lasting matches.
Get the exact person you need.
Not the standard B.S. (Bachelor of Science)
Avoid candidate pools that feel like an AI hallucination.
For whatever you need help with:
Hire engineers with expertise in search
Our contract and direct hire placements have expertise in the following four specialities.
ML/AI Engineer
Deploy, scale, and tune models; search quality and relevance
Data Scientist
Fine-tune LLMs, RAG, NLP, computer vision; extract insights
Backend Engineer
Scale and optimize infra, configure Elasticsearch, build APIs
Data Engineer
Set up the data pipelines, data pre-processing for improved relevance
Product Manager
Manage the search experience, UX, new features, releases
The team at The Search Bar were some of the best external hiring partners I’ve ever worked with to hire talent to my teams. We had a signed offer letter within a month. They took the time to understand our needs—who our existing team was, the nuances of the role as well as learning the values of the organization, which massively expedited the search and landed us the exact candidate we were looking for. I would highly recommend working with The Search Bar.
Start the search
Schedule a call to align on requirements
Get a short-list of relevant candidates
Run your interviews and select the best fit
Direct placement
Add a permanent resource to your team
Contract/project-based
Work with talent for on-going development projects
Staff a team
Expand your output with a team of 5-10 ML/AI/Search engineers
Connecting good people to meaningful work
We focus our mission on the Search & AI industry because we love search problems. Search is a dynamic intersection of human need, expansive data, and evolving technology. We’re obsessed with it! Specializing allows us to go deep in the vetting process, resulting in efficient hiring cycles and lasting matches.
The founder has personally placed 200+ engineers. The last decade of his career was spent in the weeds with dozens of search teams, helping them build amazing search experiences.
Are you a 1 in 2,500?
Join our expert community of Search & AI professionals to find your next big problem to solve.
Frequently asked questions
Located all across the globe with concentrations in the US, Canada, LATAM, Europe, UK, and India.
Yes, generally happy to follow your process. If we are not able to directly discuss requirements and feedback with the hiring manager, then TSB is not a good fit. We see this partnership with the hiring team as vital to a lasting match.
Contract labor is time and materials. Direct hire placements are a percentage of the first year's salary. We do not do fix-bid pricing for project work.
Yes, direct hire placements have a 30 day refund, and a 90 replacement guarantee. More info in the MSA.
Yes, our proprietary assessment and software is available for HR/TA teams to use with their applicants. Please contact us for more information.
Yes, we will happily discuss your existing team composition, help identify skill gaps, and refine the job requirements.