Hire AI agent engineers
Agents are the most oversold and least understood thing in the stack. A working agent is a boring loop with excellent tools, tight scopes and a plan for when a step fails; a broken one is a demo that works on the third try. Hire for the difference.
Free to search, every filter open · opens filtered to AI Automation & Agents.
11 scored profiles match — here are the top 6
How to tell a real one from a résumé that says the words
- Scoped narrowly. People who have shipped agents make them do less, not more.
- Has a retry and failure story — what happens when step four returns nonsense.
- Tool design over prompt cleverness. Most agent quality is in the interface the agent is handed.
- Watches cost per completed task, not per call.
How to hire AI agent engineers with this database
- Filter by the AI Automation & Agents capability rather than by the word agent, which now appears on most profiles.
- Cross-check with the tools you actually use — MCP, LangGraph, n8n, custom orchestration.
- Ask for a task their agent handles end to end, and what percentage of the time it needs a human.
Every filter is free and each search shows the top 10 matches with the true total. The full ranked list is a single one-time payment — see pricing.
Questions about hiring AI agent engineers
What is an AI agent engineer?
Someone who builds systems where a model plans and executes multi-step work using tools — calling APIs, reading files, running code — with orchestration, memory and error handling around it.
How do I check someone has really built agents?
Ask what their agent does when a tool call fails, and how they measure whether a run succeeded. Demo-level builders have no answer to either; people who have run one in production have both immediately.
Do I need an agent engineer or a workflow automation person?
If the steps are known in advance, a deterministic workflow is cheaper, faster and more reliable — hire automation. Agents earn their cost only when the path genuinely varies per request.
Other AI skills people hire for
Or search by role
Everyone in here is scored 0–100 on what they have demonstrably shipped, with the reason behind every number.
Search the database →Scores reflect public professional signals only, and anyone can ask to be removed. Hiring decisions stay yours — this is a starting point, not a verdict on anyone's ability. Being hired for AI work yourself? Score your own profile.