Hiring AI talent is slow, and the résumé barely tells you anything. Litmus sends you remote AI engineers who have already passed a real technical screen, run by a working AI engineer. You skip the early rounds and meet only the people worth your time.
142 days to fill an AI role the usual way. We get you a ranked, vetted shortlist in 7.
Open any AI role and a hundred résumés land, all listing the same three things: LLMs, RAG, agents. Finding people was never the hard part. Telling who can actually ship is, and it keeps getting harder.
Senior AI roles sit open for months. Every week one stays open is a week of roadmap that doesn’t ship.
The few engineers who have really shipped get buried under look-alike profiles and AI-polished CVs.
Your best engineers burn hours screening strangers, most of whom were never going to clear the bar.
This isn’t a hunch. The gap shows up in every dataset on AI hiring.
Sources: CompTIA Tech Workforce Report; Employ Recruiter Nation; Gartner; LinkedIn Talent Insights, 2024–25.
We pin down what good looks like with you: the stack, the systems, what a yes really means.
We go to remote AI talent worldwide, not a generic job board, and chase people who have actually shipped.
A working AI engineer runs a live technical screen. Real code, real systems, real judgment. Only the ones who clear it move on.
You get a short, ranked list that has already passed the hard part. You run the one round that matters.YOUR STEP
Not a quiz. A practitioner pressure-tests the work an AI engineer does once they’re on the job.
Targets we calibrate with you per role and level, not promises pulled from thin air.
Litmus is a hiring partner, plain and simple. We find the person and prove they can build. You bring them on as your own remote hire. Everything after the offer is yours.
See two vetted profiles before you commit to anything. If neither fits, you’ve lost nothing.
Of first-year salary, billed only when you actually hire. No retainer, well under the usual 20–25% agency rate.
If a hire doesn’t work out inside 90 days, we run the role again, free.
You’re scaling and can’t afford a role open for three months, or a hire you have to undo.
The role ships product. The bar is real, and a generic recruiter can’t hold it.
Your few senior engineers are worth more than first-round screens.
If hiring AI engineers has felt slow and full of guesswork, that’s exactly what we fix.
Hiring systems that scale, plus technical judgment that doesn’t miss. That pairing is the whole point.
Fractional CHRO behind HR+. Builds the hiring systems and scorecards founder-led teams run on, so the bar is clear before we source anyone.
A working AI engineer who runs the technical screen. Reads real code and pressure-tests real systems, the way a strong final round would.
Send us one open AI role. You’ll get a calibration call, a clear bar, and a final-round-ready shortlist on a clock.