AI engineering search — Series A to C+

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Racehorse places senior AI and ML engineers in Texas. Retained, contingency, and embedded search & solutions, built around speed and signal.

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"They sourced an ML infra lead in 3 weeks. We'd been stuck for 4 months on our own."
— VP Engineering, Series B AI startup

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How we engage.

You need a partner that understands AI, how companies are using it to solve real problems, and access to the talent that gets it done for the companies on the bleeding edge of the AI revolution.

Retained search
Full commitment, weekly pipeline reviews, and a dedicated sourcing team. For critical hires where quality and exclusivity are non-negotiable.
VP ENG HEAD OF AI STAFF ML
Typical close: 3–5 weeks
Contingency search
Performance-based hiring for roles where speed matters. You pay on a successful placement only — no upfront risk, no retainer.
SENIOR ENG ML ENG DATA ENG
Typical close: 4–6 weeks
Embedded / RPO
We integrate into your team, build your recruiting process, and scale your AI org alongside you. Built for hypergrowth moments.
SERIES A–B HIGH VOLUME PROCESS BUILD
Ongoing engagement
AI solutions
Need to ship, not just hire? We deploy vetted AI contractors and contingent teams to deliver on your roadmap — at any company size, on your timeline.
CONTRACTORS CONTINGENT ANY SIZE
Starts in days, not weeks

Vetted AI Pros.

This week’s top engineers on the market

Every week, we’re networking and partnering with top AI talent to help them bring value to amazing organizations, pushing the limits of what can be achieved with AI.

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Yucheng H
Full Stack AI Engineer
AI2U Pytorch Langchain Azure Playfab Elastisearch
Designed and operated cloud-native backend services for AI2U, a real-time Gen-AI based RPG/Galgame hosted on PlayFab, supporting 5k+ concurrent players with sub-second latency
Seed
Available now
3 yrs
Dk
Darius K.
Software Engineer
TypeScript Python Next.js Node.js AWS
Built end-to-end RAG pipeline for enterprise knowledge base — 10k+ concurrent users, sub-200ms p95 latency.
Series A
2 wks notice
4 yrs
KS
Karan S
AI & Data Engineer
Agents Langchain Langgraph python Google ADK
Built a multi-agent workflow generation platform using Google ADK and Gemini that turns natural language into executable agent workflows
Enterprise Consultancy
Available now
4 yrs
NC
Neil C
AI Agent Systems — agents
Agents Eval Harness Langchain Langgraph Python
Architected a production multi-agent reasoning runtime (Plan-Route-Act-Verify-Stop on LangGraph, LangChain, MCP) with Business Intent Reconstruction as a first-class layer -- improving end-to-end task success rate by 18% and achieving 96% answer groundedness
Enterprise
2 wks notice
7 yrs
JL
Jeff L.
AI Team Lead
AI/ML Agents AWS OpenSource Python
Lead the development of an LLM-powered enterprise AI Assistant Framework designed to fully harness the potential of agentic systems.
Enterprise, Ex Series A
2 wks notice
10 yrs
xHealth Group
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BrandSafway
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Avtal
IFF
Frame
xHealth Group
Cointracker
Airdri
Throne Sciences
BrandSafway
LiquidStack
Toyota Connected
Avtal
IFF
Frame

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