Build next-gen products with top AI & Search talent
We help you hire vetted engineers to integrate AI-powered search, build recommendation systems, and more
Hire engineers with expertise in search
Our engineers are curated and vetted by domain experts to reduce your time to hire and ensure the right match
ML/AI Engineer
Train your models, incorporate AI-powered search features
Search Engineer
Build the search service, tuning relevance, tune queries
DevOps Engineer
Manage the search infrastructure
Data Engineer
Build the data pipelines, ingest, data transformation
Find Your Next Job Opportunity
Join our platform to connect with companies building innovative search experiences and AI-powered products.
Your business needs an AI strategy, now.
We work with you define the what, why, how and then help your team implement it.
AI Workshop
The two question facing every executive team — What is our AI strategy? What are we building? Our 2-day workshop aligns your team with AI training and shared language. Then we workshop a strategy, roadmap, and implementation plan.
AI-Powered Search
The Search renaissance has arrived! Traditional keyword search can be enhanced with new technologies and techniques for much improved relevance. Differentiate your search with RAG, hybrid, personalization, and more.
Generative AI
Leverage your data and apply generative AI to critical business work-streams for improved customer experience and reduced OPEX. Not sure where to start, what to budget, or what to avoid? We can help.
Accelerate development with staffing solutions that fit your situation
Be first-to-market with a proprietary chatbot. Backfill a role on your search team. Achieve feature parity with your search deployment. Fix a crashing cluster.
Staff a Team
Expand your output with a team of 5-10 ML/AI engineers
Short -Term Project
Contract an expert to fill a gap or troubleshoot a specialized problem
Contract / Contract-to-Hire
Work with talent for on-going development projects
Direct Placement
Add a permanent resource onto your team and payroll
Why The Search Bar?
The Search Bar exists to connect good people to meaningful work. We choose to focus this mission on the Search & AI industry because we love search problems. Search is a dynamic intersection of human need, expansive data and evolving technology, and we’re just obsessed with it! Specializing in this niche allows us to go deep in the vetting process which results in efficient hiring cycles and lasting matches.
The founder’s early background was in IT staffing where he 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. The Search Bar is the only staffing agency exclusively dedicated to Search & AI.
