A private technical talent network

Where frontier teams find exceptional engineers.

Access the ICPC, olympiad, research and engineering communities that traditional recruiting never reaches.

AI
Research Engineer
TC 460k
Candidate Frontier lab
Known across the research community, not on any job board.
COMP
$340–460k
STACK
PyTorch · CUDA
REACH
Referral
STATUS
Passive
WILDCARD wildcard012/247
Built inside technical communities
100+
Technical hires
ICPC
Olympiad & competitive-programming networks
Research
PhDs & frontier-lab engineers
800+
Engineers, researchers & olympiad alumni
AI & HFT
Direct hiring across both
01 · Why Wildcard

Why Wildcard?

Most technical hiring starts with a search.
Ours usually starts with a community.

Traditional Search

Search first. Relationships later.

· Cold LinkedIn outreach
· Job boards and inbound applicants
· The same names everyone already sees
Wildcard

Communities first. Search second.

ICPC and IOI medalists we already know
Research engineers, PhDs and C++ developers
Warm intros through people they trust

ICPC

We've followed these contestants for years. The medalists most firms only read about, we already know.

Olympiads

IOI and national olympiad alumni who went on to build, reachable because the community vouches for us.

Research

PhDs and frontier-lab engineers find us through people they already trust, not a recruiter's inbox.

Universities

Standing relationships with the departments and student groups that produce the strongest engineers early.

Referrals

Great engineers know other great engineers. Most of our best introductions come from inside the network.

Conferences

We show up where this talent already gathers, so when you need them, the relationship is already there.

02 · Where we help

Where we are most useful.

For the roles where a job post isn't enough.

AI Startups

Founding ML EngineersApplied AIAgents

Research Labs

Research EngineersScientistsPhDs

Infrastructure

Distributed SystemsPlatformPerformance Engineering

Quant & Trading

C++ EngineersQuant DevelopersLow-Latency Systems

Developer Tools

Founding EngineersProduct EngineersDeveloper Experience

Recent searches

Active in the network
AI
AI Engineer
(Audio)
Speech & audio models
Paris / London · Onsite
OpenSR-114
RESEARCH
Research
Engineer
Frontier lab
SF · Onsite / Remote
HiredSR-118
AI SAFETY
Head of
Safety
Leadership search
Cyprus · Onsite
HiredSR-121
TRADING
Quant
Developer
Prop trading firm
Amsterdam · Onsite
HiredSR-126
ENGINEERING
C++
Engineer
Low-latency systems
Amsterdam · Onsite
OpenSR-129
03 · Services

How companies work with us.

Some teams need a few introductions. Others need a full hiring partner. We work across both.

Technical Search

S/01

The hires that set your technical bar, found through people who vouch for them.

FoundingResearchMLInfraQuant

Founding Hiring Advisor

S/02

Set up how you hire before you scale. The rubrics and signals that make strong hires repeatable.

Hiring systemsInterviewsScorecardsComp

Campus & Olympiad

S/03

Meet the strongest students years before the market does, through the contest world we live in.

ICPCUniversitiesScholarshipsPrograms

Engineering Brand

S/04

Become the team strong engineers already respect, in the places reputations get made.

ConferencesCommunitiesReputation

Hiring against an impossible bar?

Tell us the role. We'll tell you who in the network fits.

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04 · Contact

Access the network.

Tell us who you're trying to reach. We'll show you the communities and the shortlist they lead to, usually within a week.

Start a search

Replies within one business day. No spam, no shared lists.

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