Hire AI engineers who build for production, not demos.
Every résumé says “GenAI” now. Very few engineers have taken an LLM feature to production and kept it reliable. HiringEye separates the two with evidence-based sourcing, a role-specific AI voice interview and an expert review.
What a strong AI engineer does
They design and ship LLM-powered features end to end: retrieval, prompts and tools, agents, evaluation and guardrails, and the monitoring that keeps quality up after launch.
WHAT WE LOOK FOR
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with real data
- Agents and tool use with clear failure handling
- Evaluation pipelines and regression testing for LLM output
- Prompt, context and cost optimisation
- Production engineering: APIs, latency, observability
- Safety, guardrails and data privacy
The real builders show their evals, not their buzzwords.
Shipped products
Engineers behind LLM features that real users rely on.
Open-source tooling
Contributions to RAG, agent and evaluation frameworks.
Write-ups and talks
Engineers who explain what failed and how they measured it.
Warm introductions
Referrals from teams who've shipped with them.
AI runs Round 1. Our people make the call.
Production scenario
An LLM feature that degrades in production: what do they check?
Evaluation design
How they'd prove a change made answers better.
Coding fundamentals
Every candidate takes a coding assessment, not just a chat.
Hiring AI engineers: questions
How do you tell a real AI engineer from GenAI buzzwords?
We look for evidence of production work, such as shipped LLM features, evaluation pipelines and open-source contributions, then test it with a role-specific AI voice interview, a coding assessment and an expert review.
What skills should an AI engineer have in 2026?
RAG with real data, agents and tool use, evaluation and regression testing for model output, cost and latency optimisation, and solid production engineering.
How quickly can HiringEye deliver AI engineer candidates?
For most AI engineering roles, the first ranked shortlist arrives within 48 hours of a locked brief.
Hiring AI engineers? Skip the buzzword résumés.
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