Technical recruiting for engineering, construction, manufacturing & AI teams
Spend your time growing your company, not screening résumés.
Most recruiters can’t judge technical skill. They rely on a short phone screen or entirely on AI. We can. Every finalist is interviewed by an experienced engineer and background-checked before you meet them, so you spend less time hiring and more time growing your company.
Hire betterengineerstechniciansproject managersAI developersproduction leadersin less time,
vetted by an engineer and background-checked.
60 min
Final interview conducted personally by an engineer
~1 week
Typical time for clients to see qualified candidates
100%
Of presented candidates pass a national background check
The problem
Most recruiters can’t tell a strong engineer from a strong résumé.
Most recruiters don’t have the technical background to judge whether someone can actually do a technical, construction, or manufacturing job.
AI has made it worse. It’s easy for candidates to use it to mislead a recruiter, and recruiters who lean on AI make it easy for candidates to cheat.
The result: you and your team spend hours reviewing unqualified candidates instead of doing the work that moves your business forward.
How we recruit
How every candidate earns a place on your shortlist
01
Screen
A short screening call to confirm experience, availability, and genuine interest in your role.
02
Preliminary interview
A one-hour deep dive into skills and experience, monitored to make sure candidates aren’t leaning on AI to answer.
03
Final interview by an engineer
A one-hour interview conducted personally by an experienced engineer: technical skills, soft skills, cultural fit, and motivation.
04
Background check
Every qualified candidate passes a comprehensive national background check before we present them to you.
The result
Less time hiring. More time growing.
When every finalist has already been interviewed by an engineer, you skip the stack of mismatched résumés and the wasted interviews.
Your team gets back to what matters: growing the company and meeting the requirements of your own customers.
Hiring for AI roles
We know AI talent because we build with AI every day.
Our founder uses AI far beyond a chat window: coordinated multi-agent systems, AI-assisted engineering analysis, and production software, running every day and multiplying output more than 20 times over.
So when you need AI engineers, we can tell who has actually built real systems and who has only used a chatbot.
Agents & automation
Multi-agent systems, task automation, and integrations with the tools teams already use.
AI-driven engineering
AI-assisted FEA and design optimization for real engineering problems.
Production software
Python and full-stack commercial applications, built to ship, plus self-hosted infrastructure.
In their words
What clients and candidates say
We were overwhelmed and struggled to find great candidates. Every recruiter we used before Austeva, wasted our time and sent us unqualified people. Had Austeva start mid-week, by Tuesday the following week, they found 3 great candidates. We'll definitely use Austeva to help fill other roles.
We needed a specific candidate with deep experience with video compression experience in the medical industry. We couldn't find the right person after using several recruiters. We didn't have high expectations for Austeva, but that quickly changed. They delivered the right person in about a week, which blew my mind and made all other recruiters look bad. These guys are truly different.
The interview went incredibly well. I wasn't expecting several highly technical questions from a recruiter. The recruiter recognized my servant leadership strengths and my technical proficiency. I've never experienced that kind of interview with a recruiter before my interview with Austeva. They placed me with a great company - I love my new job!
I've never been interviewed more thoroughly by a Technical Recruiter in my life. Most recruiters only conduct a quick phone screen then I interview with the company. Austeva helped me find a great job with an awesome company.
Built by an engineer
Meet Daniel D’Agostino
Austeva’s founder is an engineer with decades of manufacturing and product design experience and many patents to his name. He built Austeva on a simple idea: the person deciding whether a candidate can do the job should understand the job.
When you work with Austeva, you work directly with him.
Spend less time hiring and more time growing.
“Do what you do best and outsource the rest.”
— Peter Drucker, father of modern management