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For hiring teams. Invite-only. $150K+ roles.

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Everyone in the pool is vetted, priced, and open to the right offer before you get here. You write the req and read scored matches the same day.

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Your req

Staff platform engineer, AI infrastructure

Band
$250,000 to $300,000
Must have
GPU fleets, Kubernetes, inference infra
Background
Hyperscaler or neocloud
Team
Small, senior, written-first

14 vetted candidates match today

Nobody here needs finding, screening, or a price.

This is a search result, not a lead list. Every listing you can open has already cleared vetting and already carries the number its candidate will say yes to, so the first thing you do is compare people rather than chase them.

The pool$150K+ onlyPassive, not applyingVetted before listingNeocloud, AI infra, and security

14 results

Sorted by best match

  • ◆ D4W7

    Principal / Staff11 yrsRemote

    • Neocloud / AI infra
    • GPU fleets
    • Kubernetes
    • Inference infra
    • References
    • Background
    • Skills
    • Panel

    $285,000Open to bids

    Match

    79/100

  • ◆ B9X2

    Principal / Staff14 yrsHybrid, NYC

    • Neocloud / AI infra
    • Distributed training
    • Networking
    • Terraform
    • References
    • Background
    • Skills

    $310,000Hire-Now only

    Match

    74/100

  • ◆ K3TQ

    Director9 yrsRemote

    • CISO / AI security
    • Model security
    • Threat modelling
    • Compliance
    • References
    • Background
    • Skills

    $268,000Open to bids

    Match

    71/100

Each score breaks down across five variables, and a variable with no signal yet says so rather than guessing. Ranking never blocks the search: if scoring is slow, results still come back.

You arrive three months in.

A senior search is mostly the part before the interview: finding people who are not looking, screening them, checking references, and settling on a number. Here that work is finished on the candidate's side, once, long before your req exists.

Sourcing a passive senior hire yourself

About 18 weeks

  • Source6 wks
  • Screen and reference5 wks
  • Interview4 wks
  • Agree a number3 wks

The same hire on CouchHire

About 2 weeks

  • Interview2 wks
  • Offer and accept3 days
  • and roughly 16 weeks you never spend
  • Already done, on the candidate's side
  • Yours to run
  • The close

Weeks are illustrative and every search is its own animal. What is not illustrative is which steps you still own.

Two ways to close, and one you cannot buy.

The price is on the listing, so the negotiation is short and the rules are the same for everyone.

Hire Now
Pay the number on the listing. It is the strongest signal you can send and the shortest route to a match.
Place a bid
Only where the candidate opened the door to it, and never under the floor they set. A bid below it is flagged and cannot be accepted as it stands.
Request panel interview
You can ask, not buy. The candidate books the session, pays for it, and decides whether you ever see the result. You never learn who ran it.
Shortlist
Hold on to a listing without touching it. Nothing you do reaches the candidate until you actually make an offer.

Whichever route you take, the name comes last. Identity opens when both sides accept, to you and to no one else.

Your own VPs can earn here.

Senior people on your side can join the panel and run ~45-minute neutral interviews in their field for $250 a session. They see where the market is going, and they never interview for a role they are hiring on.

Ready when the role can't wait.

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