AI talent.
Employed globally. Deployed to you.

We place ML engineers, research scientists, and data specialists at AI companies building production systems. We employ them as their employer of record in 100+ countries. You direct the work.

Currently placing talent at teams backed by Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and sovereign wealth funds.
100+

Countries with owned employment infrastructure

48 hrs

Typical time to first candidate shortlist

94%

Placements still engaged at 12 months

$0

Client liability for employment compliance

We find the talent. We employ them. You build.

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You tell us what you're building and what expertise you need.

We search our network of pre-vetted AI specialists, surface candidates within 48 hours, and handle technical screening.

When you select a candidate, we become their legal employer. We run payroll, withhold taxes, provide benefits, and ensure compliance with local labor law.

You retain full direction over their work. No entity setup. No legal exposure. No HR overhead.

Talent Sourcing

We maintain an active network of ML engineers, data scientists, and AI researchers across 80+ countries. Every candidate has shipped production systems. We screen for technical depth, communication clarity, and timezone fit before they reach you.

Global Employment

We operate employment infrastructure in 100+ jurisdictions. When you hire through us, we're the employer of record. We handle offer letters, onboarding, payroll, statutory benefits, tax withholding, and termination if needed. You're not a co-employer. You have no compliance exposure.

Ongoing Operations

Payroll runs automatically. Benefits stay current with local requirements. We handle expense reimbursement, equipment provisioning, and employment documentation. If local regulations change, we adapt. You don't need to track it.

Scope to start in under two weeks

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Share your requirements

Role, technical stack, experience level, timezone, start date. A 30-minute call or a detailed brief. Either works.

Receive matched candidates

Within 48 hours, you'll have 3-5 candidates with relevant experience. Each profile includes work history, technical assessment results, and a recorded interview.

Interview and select

Run your own technical process or use ours. When you've made a decision, we move to employment.

We handle employment

Offer letter, background check, contract, onboarding, payroll setup. The candidate starts as our employee, working under your direction. Typical time from selection to start: 5-7 business days.

Specialists across the AI stack

We focus on technical roles that require domain expertise, not generalist staffing.

Machine Learning Engineers

Training pipelines, model optimization, inference at scale. PyTorch, JAX, distributed training, CUDA.

Research Scientists

Novel architectures, frontier capabilities, published work. PhD-level expertise in specific domains.

Data Scientists

Experimentation infrastructure, statistical modeling, causal inference. Production analytics systems.

Data Operations

Training data pipelines, annotation workflows, quality assurance. RLHF, preference labeling, red-teaming.

MLOps & Infrastructure

Model serving, monitoring, CI/CD for ML. Kubernetes, Ray, MLflow, feature stores.

Applied AI Engineers

LLM integration, RAG systems, agent frameworks. Turning research into products.

We've done this before

Our clients include companies with complex vendor requirements. We maintain the documentation, insurance, and compliance infrastructure that enterprise procurement teams expect.
Master Services Agreement templates for US, UK, EU, and MENA jurisdictions
Certificate of Insurance (General Liability, Professional Liability, Cyber)
SOC 2 Type II report
Completed security questionnaires (SIG, CAIQ, custom)
Data processing agreements and privacy documentation
Banking details, W-9, and entity verification documents
References from comparable engagements
If your procurement team needs something not listed here, we'll turn it around within 48 hours.

Simple pricing. No hidden fees.

We charge a placement fee when a candidate starts, plus an ongoing margin on compensation. The margin covers employment costs, compliance, payroll operations, and benefits administration. No setup fees. No monthly minimums. No termination penalties.
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Total compensation includes:
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Base salary, bonuses, and cash-equivalent value of equity at fair market value

From teams we've worked with

"We needed to spin up a data labeling team in Southeast Asia without setting up an entity. Tensais had the infrastructure already in place. We had twelve people onboarded in three weeks."

— VP of Operations, Series B AI Company

"Their candidates actually understood our technical requirements. We weren't explaining what fine-tuning meant. That saved us weeks of screening."

— Engineering Lead, Foundation Model Lab

"Procurement took two days. They had every document we asked for, formatted correctly, ready to go."

— Head of Vendor Management, Enterprise AI Division

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