Roles we place
Cadre has placed engineers at high-growth startups since 2007 — one specialty, every flavor of it. 84% of the candidates we submit are ones our clients want to interview: our published standard on every search. 80% of our current searches are for AI companies.
These are capability pages, not job posts — we have never posted a job in our history. Every engineer we represent is sourced directly.
The center of gravity of our current work — from applied ML at product companies to the infrastructure behind the models.
Applied ML, model training and serving, ML systems in production at scale.
Hire ML engineers →LLM-powered products, agents, RAG systems, evals, and prompt-to-production pipelines.
Hire AI engineers →Inference at scale, GPU orchestration, training infra, model deployment platforms.
Hire ML infra engineers →Perception, multimodal systems, and language pipelines beyond the API call.
Hire CV & NLP engineers →Perception, controls, and autonomy software for hardware that ships.
Hire robotics engineers →Experimentation, causal inference, and decision science embedded with product teams.
Hire data scientists →The builders — from first commit to hundred-engineer codebases.
Distributed systems, APIs, and the services everything else stands on.
Hire backend engineers →Product-quality UI at speed — React, performance, and design sensibility.
Hire frontend engineers →End-to-end owners for teams where everyone ships everything.
Hire fullstack engineers →Native iOS and Android engineers who treat the app as the product.
Hire mobile engineers →Pipelines, warehouses, and the data platforms ML teams live on.
Hire data engineers →The customer-facing builders AI companies are hiring hardest right now.
Hire FDEs →The roles every AI-era startup suddenly needs — and struggles hardest to close.
CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and the paved roads engineers actually use.
Hire DevOps engineers →Uptime as a discipline: observability, incident response, scale.
Hire SREs →Internal developer platforms that turn 10 engineers into the output of 30.
Hire platform engineers →Product, cloud, and infrastructure security before it becomes a headline.
Hire security engineers →Security built into the pipeline, not bolted on after.
Hire DevSecOps engineers →Automation-first quality engineering for teams that ship daily.
Hire QA engineers →Senior judgment and rare specialties — the searches that go to a boutique because volume shops can’t touch them.
The half-CTO first hire who builds version one of everything.
Hire founding engineers →Force multipliers who set the technical bar across teams.
Hire staff engineers →Leaders who keep shipping while growing the team beneath them.
Hire eng managers →Org builders for the scale-up chapters — process without bureaucracy.
Hire a VPE →Kernels, compilers-adjacent optimization, and making inference cheap.
Hire performance engineers →The engineers other engineers depend on — languages, tooling, DX.
Hire dev-tools engineers →If the job is building software, we’ve almost certainly placed it. And if it’s truly outside our lane, we’ll say so and point you to someone good.
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