HeadHunted AI helps Australian companies hire the engineers behind production-grade AI systems — from GenAI and agentic AI to ML engineering, MLOps, data platforms and applied AI leadership. We help you clarify the role, understand the market and reach candidates who are unlikely to apply through job ads.
Our network includes AI, ML and data professionals from companies such as
Fluent on the latest model, paper or framework, but light on production ownership. Strong interview, weak first 90 days.
An ML Engineer hired into an AI application role, or a GenAI app builder hired for deeper ML engineering. Different skill sets, different hiring bar.
Good at demos and API wrappers, but weak on retrieval, evaluation, infrastructure, monitoring and safe execution. Fine for a proof of concept. Risky for a system the business depends on.
For companies making early AI hires where one person may need to build, scope, influence and lead from zero.
For organisations moving from pilots to production AI across products, operations, customer experience or internal platforms.
For teams that need stronger engineering capability around model deployment, data pipelines, ML platforms and production ownership.
For firms needing AI, data and MLOps contractors who can operate in client-facing delivery environments.
For teams translating research, prototypes or experimental AI work into reliable products and systems.
A technology team needed to grow beyond data science experimentation and hire engineers who had owned models in production.
We helped clarify the profile, mapped the relevant market and shortlisted candidates with deployment, monitoring and stakeholder delivery experience.
Team scaled with engineers who could ship and operate models, not just experiment. Each shortlist landed under five candidates.
A growing company needed its first senior AI hire — someone hands-on enough to build, but commercially mature enough to guide product and technical direction.
We helped separate GenAI application experience from deeper ML requirements and targeted candidates who had shipped real AI features in production.
Hire made within the search window with a clear remit, role calibration agreed up-front and offer accepted without counter-offer drift.
A data science function had models and experiments, but lacked the engineering layer to deploy and maintain them reliably.
We sourced candidates with ML platform, CI/CD, cloud, observability and production workflow experience — not just data scientists with infra exposure.
Engineering layer in place to deploy and operate models with confidence. Production support and release process owned by named engineers.
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