How it works

From first message to embedded engineer.

Six steps, and a line through the middle of them. Everything above it happens without anyone being contacted; everything below it starts when you ask.

The match

Nobody is contacted in this half. You can leave at any point in it and nothing has happened.

Describe the gap in your own words.

One sentence is enough to start — the role, the stack, the overlap you need. Smart Match asks the follow-up questions a talent partner would ask on a first call, and you answer the ones you have answers to.

No form, no account, no email up front.

Watch the match run against the bench.

Your words become a role specification: the skills that matter, weighted, and the ones that do not. The same specification is then scored against every published profile, on the same five dimensions, in front of you.

The weights are visible. You can argue with them before anyone acts on them.

Judge the shortlist yourself.

You see the profiles the specification surfaced and why each one scored where it did. Rates and regions are on the card. This is where most people find out whether their brief was describing the role they meant.

These are published profiles, not people who have been approached about your role.

SR

Sofia Reyes

Principal AI Engineer

$14K
/mo
Vetted profileUS overlap
ML

Mara Lindqvist

Senior ML Engineer

$11K
/mo
Vetted profileEurope
DA

Dev Ananthan

Staff ML Engineer

$12K
/mo
Vetted profileAsia

The full index is at hire engineers.

The commitment

This half starts when you ask for it, and only then does a person hear about your role.

Book the review with a talent partner.

A named person takes the specification you just built, not a blank brief. You calibrate scope, seniority and commercial shape together, and agree what a good introduction would look like before any outreach begins.

This is the first point at which a human being is involved on either side.

Meet the engineers who said yes.

We confirm interest and role-specific readiness with each engineer before you meet them, so an introduction is never a cold forward. You interview the ones who cleared that, on your own process, and embed the one you choose.

No engineer is presented as a candidate until they have opted in to your role.

Keep one place for the work after they start.

The specification you built stays the reference the engagement is measured against, and your talent partner stays the person you call. Scaling from one specialist to an embedded squad reuses the same brief rather than starting again.

The same model whether it is one engineer or a team.

Tell us what you're building.

One sentence is enough. Your talent partner takes it from there, and your Role Specification follows the call. Nothing is published and no engineer is contacted until they review the scope with you.

The right engineer. The right environment. Performance built to last.