ENGINEERING
Finding the engineers who build what comes next.
The founding principle
The first engineering hires don't build products. They build companies.
The engineers who join at zero define technical standards, architecture and company trajectory. They are not hires. They are co-authors of what the company becomes.
Areas of search
What we search for.
Founding and senior engineering across AI native companies building at the frontier.
Founding Engineers
The first technical hires who set the standard for everything that follows.
Staff Engineers
Senior individual contributors who shape architecture and raise the technical bar.
Principal Engineers
Technical leaders at the intersection of depth and direction.
Applied AI
Engineers who translate research into production systems at scale.
Machine Learning
Practitioners who build, train and deploy models that matter.
AI Infrastructure
Builders who make AI systems fast, reliable and production ready.
Inference
Specialists in optimising and deploying models at the edge of performance.
Product Engineering
Engineers who build with product instinct and technical rigour.
Zero to One Builders
Engineers who thrive in ambiguity and build from nothing.
The Fudo approach
Engineering Judgment
We look beyond where someone worked. We assess how they think, build and lead.
Fudo Motion
The AI engineering market moves daily. Motion maps the companies, engineers and movement shaping it.
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Engineers mapped
Continuous
Market coverage
Live
Engineering signals
Proprietary insights · Market intelligence
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Tell us what you're building. We'll tell you who we'd look for.