$ nothiring — ai-native recruiting agency
We hand you candidates that fit — validated by engineers, ready to interview. You only pay if you hire.
no retainer · 15% on signing · 3-month guarantee
$ cat brief.md role: Product Engineer stack: Python, FastAPI, Next.js team: product — 6 engineers scope: full-stack · ships end-to-end level: senior $ nothiring run --source --score --review # your turn — edit the role, hit ↺ replay. the pipeline reruns on your brief.
“Shipped a full feature end-to-end in the take-home — clean API, sane UI, good trade-offs under ambiguity. Real product instinct, not a keyword match. Would hire.” — J. López
3 finalists, validated and ready. Suggested next step: one 45-min product + system-design chat each. You pick who to meet.
teams we've hired engineers for
Embat 
Fence 
git diff agencies..nothiring
how it works
From your brief to a validated finalist — without interviewing ten people who don't fit.
Over Slack or a 20-minute call. Stack, seniority, team context. We get the brief right.
Our AI sources and scores thousands of engineers against your brief. Then a senior engineer validates each finalist by hand — technical skill, AI fluency, team fit, and what a CV won't tell you: attitude, energy, soft skills and trajectory.
how it works inside ↓We hand you 1–3 pre-validated finalists. You make the offer. You pay 15% on signing, and get a free replacement for 3 months.
02 · pipeline --verbose
This is how the “we source & validate” step works under the hood. Four stages, each cuts hard. Nothing reaches your calendar that a senior engineer hasn't validated first.
LinkedIn, GitHub, the open web, proprietary databases, our own network and tech communities — queried simultaneously by AI agents we built ourselves. Including the engineers who'll never show up on social media.
AI scores every profile against your brief, the notes from our kickoff with you, and what we've learned evaluating engineers like this before. Calibrated to real engineering ability, not keywords. Strong fundamentals win here — a matching buzzword on its own doesn't.
A senior engineer pressure-tests each finalist personally — system design, product sense, depth, and how they actually build with AI: agents, evals, judgment on where AI gets it wrong, not just autocomplete. And they read what a CV won't tell you: attitude, energy, soft skills and trajectory. AI proposes; an engineer decides.
Finalists arrive validated — skills screened, level verified, team fit checked. First validated candidate inside the first week. Your job is to choose, not to filter.
outreach --1:1
The best engineers are employed, busy, and ignoring recruiters. We reach them 1:1 and through references — from people who can talk about their actual work. That's why they reply.
git log --founders
We built teams and shipped code at Cloudflare, Cabify and Amazon. We judge skill, architecture and system design — not buzzwords on a CV. Behind us: a network of senior engineers across AI, software and data for extra validation.
$ git log --oneline --authors=founders
ls roles/
Product Engineers · Backend ·
Frontend · Full-stack
CTO · Engineering Managers ·
Tech Leads · Staff / Principal · VP Eng
Data Scientist · Data Engineer ·
ML / GenAI · MLOps
Platform Engineers · DevOps ·
Cloud Architects
CPO · Product Managers ·
Product Owners
QA Automation ·
SDET
We find them.
// and the profiles reshaping engineering teams
code + product — owns the outcome, not the ticket
ships LLM features to production, not notebooks
writes code in your product and talks to your customer
Everyone we put in front of you — engineers, data scientists, PMs — is screened for real engineering fundamentals and how they build with AI agents: not whether they 'use Copilot', but whether they write evals, build harnesses and know where AI breaks. That's the scarce part.
cat invoice.txt
Of first-year gross salary. Charged on signing.
If you don't hire, you pay nothing. The search risk is ours.
Free replacement if it doesn't work out.
// all the risk is ours.
geo --base es
Spain is what we know cold — the companies, the engineers, the comp, the market. Whether you're a Spanish company, hiring remotely into Spain, or opening a satellite office here, we already know who's good and how to reach them. We work across the rest of Europe today, too — and we're going worldwide soon.
faq
15% of first-year gross salary, and only if you hire. No retainer, no upfront fees: if you don't hire, you pay nothing.
We don't send you 100 unfiltered CVs. Our AI sources and scores thousands of profiles against your brief, and a senior engineer validates each finalist by hand. You get 1–3 people, not 30.
The first validated candidate usually lands within 1–2 weeks. Pace depends on the role, but we won't leave you waiting a month to see the first profile.
You're covered by a 3-month guarantee: a free replacement if it doesn't fit.
No. AI proposes; an engineer decides. We use AI to source and score at scale, but every finalist is validated by hand by a senior engineer who has built real systems.
Technical roles: software engineering, leadership, data & AI, cloud/infra, product and QA. If it's a technical role, we find them.
whoami
// you don't hire. we do.
run --start
// first validated candidate inside the first week
Are you an engineer? There's a community behind every hire → /community