Engineering search for funds & finance firms
AlphaHire is a two-person search firm placing data, AI and software engineers into venture capital firms, private equity firms, and the companies they back. Every shortlist is read by someone who knows the code — and someone who’s sat on the fund side.
The two of us
Most recruiters are good at one side of this — judging engineers, or speaking to a finance buyer. We’re two people who do one each.
The engineer
Screens every candidate
A practising senior data engineer with a finance education. Reads the actual code, tells a real ML pipeline from a buzzword, and asks the question that exposes a weak claim in thirty seconds.
The investor
Owns the client relationship
Three years inside a boutique private equity firm, with a mathematics background. Knows how a partner thinks, what they mean by “someone technical,” and how to turn a vague need into a real brief.
Every shortlist passes a technical and a finance check before it reaches you — from people who’ve actually done each job.
How we work
Network, live job-market signals and referrals.
An engineer reads the work — depth over keywords.
Mapped to what the fund actually needs.
Interviews and feedback, run end to end.
A short shortlist, and support through offer.
Who we place
Junior through Head of Engineering — mid-to-senior is our sweet spot.
Who we serve
Venture capital and private equity firms, and their portfolio companies — building or scaling engineering without the in-house fluency to vet it themselves.
Recent work
Built the engineering bench — data scientists, AI and backend engineers, iOS, and a Head of Engineering — for a profitable, bootstrapped private-markets firm scaling toward $1bn AUM.
Get in touch
One conversation usually tells you whether we’re the right firm for the search.
hello@alphahire.dev