Superposition for AI Startups
Hire builders who ship AI products, not resume keyword-stuffers.
Hiring for an AI startup in 2026 is uniquely hard
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Every engineer's LinkedIn now says 'AI.' Every recruiter pitches 'AI-ready candidates.' The signal-to-noise ratio in AI hiring has collapsed.
Meanwhile, the actual people you need — engineers who've shipped evaluated, production-grade AI systems — are rare and in demand. They're not job-hunting. They're building.
You need sourcing that speaks the language of frontier models and can actually evaluate who's shipped what.
How Superposition finds AI talent
Frontier-fluent agent
Our agent understands MCP, tool use, evals, retrieval, and caching — and evaluates candidates on real shipping signal in those areas.
Intake that speaks the stack
Voice intake captures whether you need a researcher, an applied ML engineer, or an agent builder. Different pools, different sourcing.
Cuts through resume noise
We filter out candidates whose 'AI experience' is a single tutorial. You see people with demonstrable shipped work.
Speed in a hot market
Curated shortlists in weeks, not months. Because in AI, the best candidates don't stay available long.
Questions.
Answered.
Traditional recruiters charge 20–30% of first-year salary and run a generic search across multiple clients at once. Our agent goes deep on just your company — researching thousands of candidates and bringing back people who are specifically a fit, not just generically good.
$500 per agent per month operational, plus a 15% success fee on first-year base salary only — not equity, not bonus. No retainer, no upfront commitment, no percentage-of-OTE gotchas.
Most searches produce a curated shortlist within 2–3 weeks. Signed offers range from 5 to 12 weeks end-to-end, depending on role seniority and your interview cadence.
We offer a 90-day replacement guarantee. If they leave for any reason within 90 days, we re-run the search at no additional cost.
There's an initial voice intake — usually 30–45 minutes — where the agent learns your company, values, and the specific shape of who you're hiring. After that, you review curated candidates as they come in. No daily standups.
Superposition for Founders
You should be building your company, not reading resumes.
Superposition for Talent Leads
Multiply your sourcing capacity without multiplying your headcount.
Superposition for Technical Cofounders
You should be in the codebase, not LinkedIn Recruiter.
Hire for your AI startup.
Get engineers who've actually shipped production AI — not resume-updaters.