Recruitment Division
Himalyan AI Recruit
Specialist AI talent recruitment — sourced, vetted, and placed by engineers who build production AI themselves. Open to any company, at any stage. Backed by a 6-month replacement guarantee.
Replacement Guarantee
Role Specialists
Startup to Enterprise
Build · Train · Recruit
One Partner, Full Stack
Recruit is one third of a vertically integrated AI company.
Himalyan AI is a vertically integrated AI services company. We build production AI systems, we train teams to build them, and we recruit the talent that staffs them — under one roof, to one engineering standard. Most companies stitch three vendors together for this. You don’t have to.
The Problem
Generalist recruiters consistently misplace AI roles.
Hiring AI talent requires understanding what “AI-first” actually means in practice. Most recruiters screen for keywords and certifications — and end up forwarding candidates who can talk about AI but have never shipped a system that survives contact with production.
The cost lands on you: months lost, a wrong hire on payroll, and a role that still isn’t filled. AI roles are too precise, and too expensive, to get wrong.
We evaluate for genuine deployment experience — because we build production AI ourselves, and we know exactly what good looks like.
Approach
AI talent recruitment — done right
Specialist recruitment for AI roles across engineering, architecture, product, and leadership. Open to any company. Backed by a 6-month replacement guarantee.
Specialists, Not Generalists
We vet for genuine deployment experience — not certifications, not buzzwords. We can tell the difference between someone who has shipped AI systems and someone who has read about them, because we build production AI ourselves.
You Pay for Outcomes
An industry-standard success fee, charged only on a successful hire. No retainers, no upfront cost, no fee for the search. You pay for a placement that works — nothing else.
6-Month Replacement Guarantee
If a placed candidate leaves or doesn’t work out within six months, we replace them at no additional fee. We stand behind every placement because our reputation depends on it — not the invoice.
Roles We Place
The full AI stack — engineering to leadership
If the role is genuinely AI, we recruit for it. From hands-on builders to the executives who lead them.
AI Developer
Engineers who build and ship AI-powered applications end to end — production systems, not prototypes.
AI / ML Engineer
Model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, and production inference at real-world scale.
Data Scientist
From experimentation to deployed models that move actual business metrics.
Applied Scientist
Research engineers who turn papers into production systems, not slide decks.
MLOps / ML Infra Engineer
Pipelines, serving, observability, and the platform underneath your models.
LLM / RAG Architect
Retrieval, agents, and LLM systems designed to be reliable in production — not demos.
AI Product Manager
Product leaders who understand what AI can and cannot ship today.
Agent / Prompt Engineer
Specialists in agentic workflows, tool use, evaluation, and structured outputs.
Computer Vision Engineer
Detection, tracking, and perception built for real-world deployment.
NLP Engineer
Language systems — extraction, classification, generation, and evaluation.
Forward-Deployed AI Engineer
Engineers who embed with customers and ship in the field.
Head of AI · VP AI · CTO
Technical AI leadership that has actually built and scaled systems.
Don’t see the exact title? If it’s an AI-first role, we can source for it. Tell us about the system you’re building and we’ll map the role with you.
Process
How a placement works
Source, vet, place — then stand behind it.
Intake & Role Mapping
We start by understanding the system you’re actually building — not just a job description. We map the role to real skills, seniority, and the stack it has to operate in.
Specialist Sourcing
We source from a network of AI builders — engineers, scientists, and leaders we can evaluate on substance. Not a keyword database, not a spray of unqualified résumés.
Technical Vetting
Candidates are evaluated on shipped systems, deployment experience, and system design — by people who build AI for a living. We screen out the buzzword fluency that fools generalist recruiters.
Placement & Onboarding
We manage the offer, the close, and the ramp. You get a shortlist that is genuinely qualified and a hire who is set up to contribute fast.
6-Month Guarantee
Every placement is backed by a six-month replacement guarantee. If it doesn’t work out, we fix it — at no additional fee.
Why Himalyan AI
Recruiters who build the systems they staff
We Build AI Ourselves
Defense systems, real-time voice, production platforms, and products like ReduceWaste.AI and TestFlo.AI. We recognize real AI talent because we are it.
Deployment Over Credentials
We weight what a candidate has shipped over what their résumé claims. Certifications don’t deploy systems — engineers do.
One Partner, Full Stack
Need the system built? Build. Need your team upskilled? Train. Need to hire? Recruit. The same engineering standard runs across all three.
Aligned Incentives
We are paid on a successful, lasting placement — not for the search. Our incentive is the same as yours: the right hire, kept.
Any Company, Any Stage
Open to all organizations — early-stage startups to large enterprises. No existing Himalyan AI relationship required.
Deep Role Understanding
AI roles are precise and easy to get wrong. We scope and vet for the positions generalist recruiters consistently misplace.
The right hire. Or a free replacement.
Hire AI talent that has actually shipped.
Tell us about the role and the system you’re building. We respond within 24 hours — with a shortlist worth your time, not a pile of résumés.