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LLM Engineers
Engineers who fine-tune, prompt, evaluate and integrate large language models into products.
Applied AI & Agents
Generative AI recruitmentfor products built on LLMs and agents.
Lio recruits engineers and product-minded specialists for companies building with large language models and AI agents. The field moves quickly, so we focus on people who have shipped LLM features, evaluated them rigorously and can tell a working demonstration from a reliable product.
Who we recruit
The people we recruit
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AI Agent Developers
Engineers building agentic systems that plan, call tools and recover from failure, with close attention to reliability.
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Applied AI Engineers
Builders who connect models to real workflows, company data and user experience.
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Retrieval and Search Engineers
Specialists in retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and ranking that ground model outputs in trusted data.
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Evaluation and Safety Specialists
Engineers who design evaluation suites, red-teaming and guardrails for how models behave in production.
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Generative AI Product Leaders
Product and engineering leads who define what generative features should do and how their success is measured.
Our perspective
Why generative AI roles are hard to fill
The skills in this market are new and job titles are inconsistent. Many candidates have built impressive demonstrations but have not yet kept a system reliable under real usage. We look for evidence of production work, including how candidates measured quality, managed cost and closed the gap between model behaviour and user expectations.
Generative AI hiring also spans very different needs. A company fine-tuning models needs different people from one building agents on top of a hosted model API. We help hiring teams define the work precisely, so the search targets the right profile rather than the most fashionable title.
We support companies hiring across the US.
Challenges
Hiring challenges we help with
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Separating hype from delivery
Strong candidates explain their trade-offs. We look for people who can describe what went wrong, how they measured quality and what they would change next time.
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Keeping pace with a fast-moving field
Tools and techniques change every few months. We assess engineering judgement and learning ability alongside current tooling.
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Balancing seniority and hands-on skill
Many generative AI leaders are strategists and builders at once. We help companies find people who can do both at the level the roadmap requires.
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