We’re Not Recruiters. We’re Engineers Who Recruit.

We built Thinkteks because we were tired of interviewing candidates who looked good on paper but couldn’t ship. Our team comes from engineering backgrounds, so we know how to spot the difference between a prompt engineer and someone who can actually deploy a custom LLM stack in prod.

Here’s How It Works

 

1. We sit down and talk like founders.
No forms. No fluff. Just a 30-minute call to understand what you’re building, who you’re hiring, and what success looks like.

2. We go to our network.
That includes ML engineers, applied scientists, backend devs with AI experience, and ex-Big Tech folks looking for their next zero-to-one challenge.

3. You get intros. Real ones.
Clean resumes. Technical notes. No copy-paste messages. You pick, we schedule, you hire.

Oh and we only charge 10% commission. No 30% recruiter markup, ever.

    “Tony is a consummate professional with an eye for talent. He helped our team recruit IT candidates in a hyper competitive talent market. Thanks for a job well done! “

    Aseem Kapur
    Energy & eMobility Executive, Clean Energy Con Edison

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    Who’s Behind Thinkteks?

    Tony Kochhar

    Our Hiring Expert

    Trusted Customers

    The Talent We Deliver

    At Thinkteks, we specialize in connecting innovative companies with high-performing, technically-vetted talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data, and AI. Whether you’re building core products, scaling infrastructure, or integrating cutting-edge AI solutions, we deliver professionals who not only meet technical requirements but understand your business goals from day one.

    Software Engineering & Development

    We recruit engineers across the full software stack, experts in building scalable, high-performance systems with modern frameworks and cloud platforms.

    – Full-Stack Developers – React, Angular, Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails

    Core Java Developer, Java Web Developer

    Backend Engineers – Python, Java, Go, .NET, Rust

    Frontend Engineers – TypeScript, React.js, Vue.js, Svelte

    Mobile Developers – Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter

    – PHP Developer, WordPress Development, Laravel , Magento , Drupal Developers

    – Embedded Systems Engineers – C/C++, ARM Cortex, IoT, RTOS

    Data Science & Engineering

    Data is at the heart of product and business strategy—we help you build teams that unlock insights and drive data-driven decision making.

    – Data Engineers – SQL, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, dbt

    – Data Scientists – Predictive modeling, statistical analysis, Python, R

    – Analytics Engineers – BI tools, metrics development, modern data stack (Looker, Tableau, dbt)

    Cloud, DevOps, and Infrastructure Solutions

    Want to improve your cloud-native apps or need a solid infrastructure? We connect you with engineers who excel at building and maintaining scalable systems.

    – DevOps Engineers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines.

    – Site Reliability Engineers (SREs): Observability, incident management, infrastructure as code.

    – Cloud Architects: Cloud migration, architectural design, cost optimization.

    – Cybersecurity Engineers: Threat modeling, penetration testing, SOC integration.

      Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

      AI is no longer experimental—it’s core. We connect you with top talent in applied ML, LLM development, and generative AI who can bring intelligent systems to life.

      ML Engineers – Model training, deployment, optimization (TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow)

      – LLM & GenAI Developers – LangChain, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, prompt engineering

      RAG Engineers – Vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS), knowledge retrieval, semantic search

      NLP & Computer Vision Engineers – Text generation, sentiment analysis, object detection

      AI Product Managers – AI-first roadmaps, UX for AI, business integration

      – Ethical AI Experts

        Year's of Experience

        Candidates Hired

        Our Candidate Network

        The U.S. Engineering Talent Gap Is Growing And AI Roles Are at the Center of It

        The U.S. engineering workforce includes more than 5.3 million professionals, yet it’s not enough. Every year, the market opens up 195,000 engineering roles, driven by innovation, expansion, and the retirement of senior talent. But universities are only graduating around 141,000 engineers annually, leaving a shortfall of 54,000 unfilled roles every single year.

        This gap is especially sharp in AI and data-driven engineering, where demand is surging faster than traditional programs can train for. From AI software engineers and ML ops specialists to LLM experts and data pipeline architects, the market simply can’t keep pace with how fast AI is reshaping products and infrastructure.

        If you’re trying to hire in this climate, you’re already feeling it: longer hiring cycles, weaker candidate pools, and increased pressure to compete for experienced, qualified engineers.

        At Thinkteks, we specialize in navigating this exact environment, delivering AI talent that’s not just available, but production-ready.

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          Annual Job Openings: 195,000

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          Annual Engineering Graduates: 141,000

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          Talent Shortage: 54,000 per year

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        AI Recruitment Services, Rewired by Engineers

        We’re not traditional recruiters — we’re engineers who recruit. Our tech-driven process skips fluff, screens deeper, and sends only job-ready talent your way. Faster hires. Better fits.

        The Problem
        Recruiters lack technical depth. Resumes don’t show real skill. Interviews take too long.
        Our Solution

        As a trusted name in artificial intelligence staffing, Thinkteks combines engineering expertise with hands-on evaluations and efficient screening — delivering top candidates with zero wasted time.

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        Transparent Pricing Only 10% Commission

        Problem

        AI talent recruiting recruiting agencies charge excessive fees, typically between 25-30% of a candidate’s first-year salary, making hiring costly.

        Solution

        At Thinkteks, we keep things simple and fair with a low 10% commission rate, offering a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to traditional recruitment firms.

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        Three Simple Steps to Hire Candidates with Thinkteks

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          Step 1: Discover Your Needs

          As a AI recruitment company, we do a deep intake call to understand your engineering needs, culture and goals so we can target the right talent for your team.

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          Step 2: Match with Precision

          Using our in-house engineering expertise and exclusive talent network we match you with top engineers who fit your requirements, fast.

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          Step 3: Hire with Confidence

          We handle the hiring process for a flat 10% fee, interviews, onboarding and more so you can focus on growing your business.

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        Reviews from Clients

        Tony is the kind of recruitment leader every team DREAMS of. He is a relentless hustler who works tirelessly to build the precise team every functional leader is looking for. Tony was assigned to my team at Trilogy at a pivotal point. We had long broken the limits of what our scrappy team could do — and we needed to expand FAST. Days upon his arrival, he was tasked with helping us to hire dozens of people in roles for which we only had a semblance of a template. Despite the ambiguity of our ask, we knew these roles were mission-critical for our organization’s success.

        Tony took the challenge in stride and worked many days and nights (to our surprise!) sourcing leads, passing them our way, iterating on the feedback, and continuing to push until the job was done. Even for a skeptical manager like myself who took pride in “doing my own recruiting,” — Tony quickly demonstrated the exponential effect that comes from working with a real seasoned professional who knows how to add value even in a crazy start-up environment.

        Tony is humble, positive, and truly ambitious. He is a phenomenal collaborator and an exceptional driver of success. I know that the next organization that takes him in is in for a MASSIVE lift. Trust me. You won’t know what hit you.

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        Ahmed F. Haque

        I had the pleasure of working with Tony at Agoda. He is very effective at building pipelines for hard to fill software engineering positions. His ability to work with and create strong relationships with hiring managers and the business as a whole was key to his success. Due to his tech background he was able to hit the ground running for us, which is another strength of his. What I like the most is his enthusiasm for the job. He worked remotely from NY for us, but still made himself available for his managers in Bangkok. The guy lives and breaths recruitment!.

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        Tony is a consummate professional with an eye for talent. He helped our team recruit IT candidates in a hyper competitive talent market. Thanks for a job well done!

        Aseem Kapur

        Tony is a talented and professional individual who is a pleasure to work with. He combines a seasoned sales approach with great relationship management skills and a strong understanding of recruitment based business. He is creative, dauntlessly positive and an excellent presenter. He will have an immediately positive impact on any environment where these skills are prerequisites for success.

        Gideon Harris

        I first met Tony when our company was outsourcing some recruiting efforts and he helped us find a few key individuals in our engineering organization. Not too long thereafter, Tony came aboard as a full time recruiter for our org and eventually was running the recruiting team.

        Engineering management in my group always had an easy time working with Tony. His methods seemed well established and effective and his process was transparent. Tony understands the concepts of software engineering and what we are looking for at a higher level than most non-engineers.

        Tony is an eaay going well, a team player and a pleasure to work with.

        Jim Mortko

        Tony and I were colleagues for four years at Hearst and he was amazing to work with. Tony is professional, focused, driven and also really fun. He was able to recruit top talent, while focused on the business profitability, wellbeing, diversity, and overall success. He is a positive team builder – and social coordinator on top of that! I hope to work with Tony again in the future.

        Renetta Welty

        Tony is an invaluable resource for building fantastic teams. He takes his time to truly understand the role responsibility and more importantly what persona will fit best on my team. He works tirelessly to accommodate last-minute changes to job descriptions. Tony’s upbeat “we can do that” attitude makes the hiring process a breeze for me as a hiring manager.

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