# Niuro · The Talent Engineering Company > Engineers who recruit engineers. AI agents + a 1,000,000-strong network turn your hiring need into an evidence-backed shortlist within 5 business days. Canonical page: https://niuro.io/ Machine-readable index: https://niuro.io/llms.txt ## The talent engineering company Hire the right talent, right when you need it. A proven shortlist, built by talent engineers and AI agents. - 1,000,000+ talent in the network - 13,000+ interviews & qualifications - 17+ countries · operations - 5 business days from approved intake to shortlist ## How it works: Describe. Decide. Done. Unlimited job postings. Describe what you need, decide between finalists, and we handle the rest. API and MCP access are available. ### Describe Tell us who you need, the problem you want solved, or upload the JD. Approve the structured intake, success criteria, compensation, and engagement model before anything moves. ### Decide Meet evidence-backed finalists and choose. The shortlist lands within 5 business days of your approved intake, on the terms you already selected. ## Evidence, engineered: Real signals before your first interview. Resumes and interviews can be polished. **Evidence shows the work behind them.** The Niuro system matches candidates to your role, and talent engineers verify every finalist. Your team starts with **proven options, not a screening queue.** - **Your criteria:** Stack, seniority, working style, and compensation matched to what you approved. - **Prior proof:** Recordings, scores, and real work that predate your search. - **Human review:** A talent engineer signs off on every finalist. - **Your Fit outcomes:** Outcomes matched to your approved criteria, with interest, availability, and compensation confirmed upfront. ## The Hiring OS: Every cycle sharpens the next. Your decisions calibrate the system to your team. Who you met, who you passed on, and why stays structured, so the next search starts from what the system already knows about your bar. Your engagement data stays private to your work with Niuro. The matching process, questions, and playbooks keep improving inside the OS. ## Ways to work with Niuro: One system. Three ways to put it to work. ### Headhunting — hire directly into your team **One-time success fee** (12–20% of first-year salary) - No retainers. Pay only after you hire the right person. - Evidence-backed candidates; you hire directly. - Set by role complexity, urgency, seniority, and exclusivity. - Replacement service included for up to one year. - Flexible payment terms. ### Staffing — technical capacity without headcount **Flat monthly rate** (per engineer, set by seniority and role, quoted at calibration) - No retainers. Pay only once your engineer is working with you. - Work with Niuro Engineers who passed the same evidence bar shown on this page. - Everything handled: contracts, payments, replacements, support. - Month-to-month: scale up, scale down, replace. - Matching pauses while the engineer is engaged with your team. - Buy out: 20% of annual salary after year one. ### Agentic Hiring OS — for teams that hire repeatedly **Outcome-based** (installation, a monthly fee, and a success component per hire) - A Niuro forward-deployed engineer installs the harness around your process. - Installed and operated on ourselves first. - Scoped with your FDE at calibration. - Month-to-month, cancel anytime. - Your team's calibration carries into every new role. ## FAQ ### Is this just another agency? We sell the output of a system, not effort. You see candidate evidence before any interview, and the same system that serves you runs our own talent operation. Niuro is its own first customer. Every claim we make comes with an artifact you can inspect. ### Can AI actually judge engineers? Judgment stays human. Agents do the structuring (sourcing, screening logistics, interview capture, evidence assembly) and our talent engineers and your team make every call. You see exactly which is which in the shortlist. ### How established is this? The operation is proven: 200+ engineers placed through successive versions of this system, 130 active today. And Niuro is its own first customer; our talent operation runs on it. What’s new is offering the system to you as a product. And on that part, the terms carry the risk, not you: month-to-month engagements, a replacement service on direct hires. ### Your fee depends on me hiring. Why should I trust your vetting? Because the shortlist shows its work: every candidate arrives with strengths and the open questions we’d still probe in your interview. And the terms align us: replacement service and month-to-month engagements mean we win by you running the next search here, not by closing one fast. ### What if the hire doesn’t work out? You’re covered: headhunting includes a replacement service of up to one year, and Niuro Engineers are month-to-month with replacement built in. And because evidence arrives before the first interview, engagements last. The average runs past 18 months. ### What happens to our data? Your engagement data stays private to your work with Niuro. It is never shown to or reused for another client's search. Candidates own their proof profiles. Niuro retains the platform and system-level improvements: the process, questions, and playbooks. ### Which roles does Niuro cover? Software, AI, data, cloud, and QA engineering roles. ### Where is the talent located? The network is global by design: engineers join from anywhere, and quality is the only bar. Most of today’s active network works in US-aligned time zones. ### Is contract-to-hire possible? Yes, month-to-month engagements can convert. A buy-out option (20% of annual salary after the first year, in up to three payments) is built into the terms. ## Start Start my shortlist: https://app.niuro.io/portal/start Self-serve, no call required. A human is one message away when you want one.