The Frontier Talent Engine

We Find the Builders
No One Else Can

We map the top 1% of AI builders and connect them to the companies pushing the frontier.

Design PartnersPerplexitySierraTuringInception
100K+
builders mapped across the AI frontier
1 Day
to your first calibrated candidate slate
8+
data sources per candidate profile
The Challenge

The Best AI Talent Is Invisible

The best AI talent doesn’t apply to jobs, doesn’t respond to recruiters, and doesn’t show up in any database. The tools designed to find them were built for a different market.

Scarce

Under 2% of AI practitioners have the skills to build, deploy, and scale frontier systems. Companies intensely compete for this small group. Every open week is a week your competitors are closing.

Noisy

Traditional tools optimize for volume over relevance, flooding candidates with low-signal outreach. Great builders learn to ignore everything. So the person you actually need never sees your message.

Hidden

The best builders rely on trusted peers for new opportunities. Many never formally enter the market, making them invisible to standard recruiting. Your pipeline was outdated before your recruiter started building it.

The Frontier Talent Graph

A Living Map of Builders

We combine a patent-pending search engine with proprietary datasets built from hands-on recruiting at the AI frontier. The result: continuously evolving profiles that capture what no traditional tool can.

How It Works

From Brief to Hire

01
Calibrate

You describe the role and what you’re building. We go deep — not just on skills, but on what makes someone thrive in your specific environment.

02
Search

Our engine surfaces high-match candidates with full context on fit, availability, and warm introduction paths across our network.

03
Connect

We make warm introductions through our network and the graph. No cold outreach. No recruiter spam. Real conversations.

04
Close

We support through the finish line — candidate preparation, compensation strategy, offer negotiation, and onboarding.

Testimonials

From Brief to Hire

“Post-training roles are notoriously hard to calibrate, and most recruiters never get there. Superlink was fast. They generated a precise, high-signal map of the candidates we wanted across top labs and AI companies, made warm introductions, and we’ve already hired through them.”

CT
CTO
Turing

“For a CTO search at a deep-tech startup, Superlink produced in a single day what would normally take me weeks of hands-on work. The rigor and depth of the candidate slate was far beyond what I could have done.”

TP
Talent Partner
A* Capital

“Superlink has been a solid partner in the search for exceptional technology talent. Their deep industry experience and proprietary technology enable them to quickly ramp on hard to fill roles and pivot across varied domains with ease.”

HR
Head of AI & Exec Recruiting
Perplexity
The Superlinkers

Built by People Who’ve Done This

We’re not recruiters who learned AI. We’re AI builders who learned recruiting. Our team has built and scaled products and teams at the frontier firsthand.

Peterson Conway
Peterson Conway
Paypal Mafia Talent
Founders Fund8VCA* Capital
Kumar Chellapilla
Kumar Chellapilla
VPE
InceptionStripe
Jennifer Anderson
Jennifer Anderson
VPE / Stanford PhD
GoogleUber
Thuan Pham
Thuan Pham
CTO
UberCoupang
Akash Garg
Akash Garg
CTO
MoonPayAfterPay
Wayne Chang
Wayne Chang
Early FB Engineer
OpenAIFacebook
Gautam Gupta
Gautam Gupta
CFO
UberOpendoor
Eric Ries
Eric Ries
Lean Startup Author
LTSE
Shaherose Charania
Shaherose Charania
Partner
Unshackled Ventures
Kittu Kolluri
Kittu Kolluri
Founder
Neotribe Ventures

Let’s Find Your Next Builder

If you’re hiring at the AI frontier, let’s talk.