A network built for the frontier.
OpenTalent is the world's most rigorous AI engineering network. We connect frontier labs and AI-native teams with the top 3% of engineers -- pre-training researchers, agent builders, RL specialists, and applied AI engineers -- vetted, matched, and shipping within days.
Mission
Match the world's best AI builders with the work that matters.
Most hiring is a game of logos. We think that's the wrong game. The engineer who shipped a transformer variant in a side project beats the one who listed it on a resume. We built OpenTalent to find the first kind.
Our network isn't a database -- it's a continuously maintained community of engineers who have passed one of the most demanding technical screens in the industry. Every member is reviewed on entry and re-evaluated through every engagement.
We exist to make the next great AI hire feel obvious, fast, and right -- not like a gamble.
// Vision
We believe the best AI engineering work in the world is done by a small number of people who think deeply, move carefully, and ship things that actually work. Those people deserve a network that respects their time and matches them to work worthy of their ability.
We believe frontier teams -- the labs, the AI-native startups, the ambitious product companies -- deserve access to engineers who have already been proven, not just pitched.
The most thoughtful AI work, by the most thoughtful AI builders, for the teams that take the work seriously.
Where we are today
A network, by the numbers.
Five years of investment in vetting pipelines, lab partnerships, and the back-channels that make great matches happen.
40K+
Vetted AI engineer profiles in our network
3%
Acceptance rate after the 5-stage screen
97%
Trial-to-hire success on matched engagements
~4d
Average scope-to-start time for new roles
What we offer
Three ways frontier teams work with us.
Whether you need one senior engineer tomorrow or a full pod for a defined outcome, we have a model that fits.
// Engagement model
Individual AI engineers
Hand-picked AI-native engineers -- full-time, fractional, or project-based -- embedded directly into your team.
- Match a senior engineer within 72 hours
- Risk-free 2-week trial period before commitment
- Specialists across pre-training, agents, RL, infra, multimodal, applied AI
// Engagement model
AI-native pods
Pre-formed teams of researchers, engineers, and TPMs ready to plug into your stack and ship a defined outcome.
- Composed for your problem shape -- model work, agent stack, evals, infra
- Senior tech lead included, owns delivery against your milestones
- Spin up in days; scale up or down without HR overhead
// Engagement model
Trial-to-hire
Hire one of our engineers as a full-time employee on your team after a successful trial period -- no separate placement fee.
- Try before you hire, on a real project
- Transparent, flat conversion terms
- Post-conversion onboarding support included
// Engagement model
OpenTalent for engineers
The career copilot for AI-native engineers -- the network handles outreach, vetting, contracts, and reviews so engineers can focus on the work.
- Curated engagements at frontier labs and AI-native startups
- Compensation benchmarking and contract support
- Long-term portfolio of work, not one-off gigs
The story so far
From engineering services to AI talent infrastructure.
A decade of building, vetting, and shipping -- and the conviction that the best AI talent in the world deserves a better way to work.
2015
Gravity Engineering is founded
Gravity Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. is set up in Bengaluru to build product engineering pods for global tech companies. The seed of what becomes OpenTalent: vetting hard, matching well.
2021
The AI specialization
Our engineering teams ship ML and applied AI work for fast-scaling product companies. We learn what frontier teams actually need -- and how scarce the talent is.
2023
OpenTalent launches
The OpenTalent network is launched as a focused AI engineering platform. The five-stage screening is formalized. Acceptance rate settles below 3%.
2025
Frontier partnerships
Engagements expand into pre-training research, agent infrastructure, RL environment design, and multimodal evals. The network passes 40,000 vetted engineers.
2026
The next chapter
OpenTalent expands into full AI-native pods, trial-to-hire, and the career copilot for engineers. The thesis is unchanged: the best AI work, by the best AI builders.