AI & tech staffing — contract, contract-to-hire & direct hire

The right AI talent, matched by people who know the work

ThinkLabs connects US companies with AI, data, and cloud engineers in the US and India — and helps engineers find their next role. Every candidate is screened by engineers, not keyword filters.

Trusted by teams in

Series-B & C fintechsClinical research organizationsOmnichannel retailersLast-mile logistics networksEdTech platforms at scaleEnterprise BFSI institutions

Featured partner

Enterprise technology partner

The Clorox Company
How you can hire

Three ways to bring on great engineers

Pick the model that fits the role — and change it as your needs change.

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Contract

Vetted AI, data, and cloud engineers on your team for a defined term — the first one typically onboarded within 10 business days.

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Contract-to-hire

Start on contract, convert to full-time once you're sure of the fit. Conversion terms agreed upfront.

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Direct hire

We source and technically screen; you hire straight onto your payroll for a one-time placement fee.

Talent we place

The AI and tech roles that are hardest to fill

From LLM engineers building agents to the data and platform engineers underneath them.

AI / ML Engineers

Build, train, and ship models into production systems.

PyTorchscikit-learnModel serving

LLM & GenAI Engineers

RAG pipelines, agents, MCP tooling, and LLM evaluation.

RAGAgents & MCPLLM evals

Data Engineers

The pipelines and warehouses every AI feature depends on.

SparkAirflowdbtKafka

MLOps & AI Platform Engineers

Deploy, monitor, and scale models reliably.

KubernetesMLflowCI/CD for ML

Data Scientists

Forecasts, experiments, and models that drive decisions.

PythonStatisticsForecasting

Cloud & DevOps Engineers

Infrastructure for AI workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

AWSTerraformKubernetes

Full-stack Engineers

The products and interfaces AI features live inside.

TypeScriptReact / Next.jsNode.js

QA & AI Evaluation Engineers

Test automation and evaluation harnesses for AI releases.

PlaywrightTest automationLLM evals
Why ThinkLabs

A staffing partner that understands the work

Screened by engineers

Candidates are assessed on the actual work by people who do it — not by keyword filters.

US and India talent

Onsite in the US, or from our Hyderabad office with an agreed overlap with US hours.

Fast starts

For contract roles, the first engineer is typically onboarded within 10 business days.

One partner, three models

Contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire — switch as your needs change.

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For job seekers

Looking for your next AI or tech role?

Tell us what you want to work on next. We match AI, data, and cloud engineers to roles with our clients and on ThinkLabs' own team.

  • Contract and full-time AI, data, and cloud roles
  • Positions with US companies, onsite in the US or from India
  • No fees for candidates — ever
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Skills we hire for

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsGoPythonKubernetesAWSGCPTerraformKafkaPostgreSQLpgvectorClaude APIMCP

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