Hire a AI Engineer.

AI engineer is the market's newest title, covering engineers who build LLM-powered features: retrieval pipelines, agent systems, evaluation harnesses, and the product glue around foundation models. Because the discipline is young, credentials are unreliable and portfolios matter more than tenure. We screen with practical exercises — grounding, hallucination handling, cost-latency tradeoffs — and check for engineers who measure their systems rather than demo them. Demand here is currently the fastest-growing in our index.