The CTO’s Hiring Framework: AI & Data Engineers
Hiring AI and data engineers is high-stakes—this framework gives you the confidence to do it right. Built from hundreds of successful placements, it provides benchmarks, screening questions, and cheat sheets that help you separate hype from real skill. Whether you’re scaling your team or making your first AI hire, this system ensures faster, smarter, and lower-risk decisions.

Role benchmarks & frameworks
7 high-signal screening questions
Tech-stack cheat sheets

De-Risk AI & Data Engineering Hires
CTOs using this framework have hired over 300 engineers with a 97% retention rate. It reduces the risk of expensive mis-hires in high-stakes technical roles, while speeding up time-to-hire by as much as 75%.


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It’s a hiring playbook built specifically for AI, data, automation, and no-code engineering roles. It provides clear role definitions, evaluation benchmarks, and practical screening methods.
Because it combines technical depth with market relevance. It doesn’t just tell you what to ask—it shows you how to recognize meaningful signals, which stacks matter right now, and how to separate hype from real skill.
You’ll identify top candidates faster, reduce interview waste, and make hiring decisions with confidence. It ensures consistency across hiring teams and protects against mis-hires in critical roles.
The framework was built after placing hundreds of engineers into AI and data roles. Every benchmark, question, and cheat sheet reflects what real CTOs needed to make faster, more accurate hiring calls.
Hiring your first AI engineer, scaling a data science team, or replacing a failed hire in a critical role.
CTOs, heads of data, or any engineering leader hiring AI and data specialists.

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Hire world-class AI & data engineers with confidence.