AI engineering search — Series A to C+
The AI engineers
your competitors
can't find.
Racehorse places senior AI and ML engineers in Texas & across the US. Retained, contingency, and embedded search & solutions, built around speed and signal.
AI Solutions for the enterprise
Median time to first offer
28d
from signed intake to accepted offer
vs. industry avg 67d
2.4x faster
Offer acceptance
94%
Retained repeat rate
3x
Active searches
6
this quarter
Placements YTD
19
AI eng roles
"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
One firm. Four solutions.
AI Engineering solved.
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.
Contingency search
Performance-based hiring for roles where speed matters. You pay on a successful placement only — no upfront risk, no retainer.
Embedded / RPO
We integrate into your team, build your recruiting process, and scale your AI org alongside you. Built for hypergrowth moments.
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.
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.
R
Ryan
AI Sloutions Architect
LLM Agents
RAG
ML Pipelines
Eval Frameworks
Langchain
Principal architect for the company’s MCP-first enterprise AI platform, designing authentication architecture with proper OAuth patterns for secure agent-to-service communication across environments.
Energy Sector
Passive
6 yrs
Y
Yu
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
K
Kyle.
Senior Applied AI
LangChain
MCP Servers
Vector Search
Retrieval Eval
FastAPI
Build AI-enabled workflows across products to user-facing product experiences
Fintech
Active
7 yrs
KS
Karan
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
H
Henry
Senior SE AI — agents
Agentic AI
Generative AI
NLP
Sagemaker
Python
Designed and implemented AWS-based intelligent document processing solutions that automated 90%+ of account
onboarding reviews, reducing turnaround time from 7 days to 1-3 days and generating approximately $1M in annual savings
Enterprise Finance
2 wks notice
9 yrs
J
Jeff
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
N
Nihar
Principal Engineer AI
Langchain
Coding Agents
Model Serving
RAG
Python
Led enterprise integration and productionization of open-source coding agents driving adoption
to 80% of global engineering talent
Big Tech
Passive
8 yrs
xHealth Group
Cointracker
AirDri
Throne Sciences
BrandSafway
LiquidStack
Toyota Connected
Avtal
IFF
Frame
xHealth Group
Cointracker
Airdri
Throne Sciences
BrandSafway
LiquidStack
Toyota Connected
Avtal
IFF
Frame
Ready to hire the AI engineers building your moat.
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