IT Staffing
Technical talent, vetted and ready. Not in months — in days.
Zenaide's IT staffing service places pre-vetted ML engineers, AI specialists, DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and data engineers on your team — typically within 5–10 business days.
What does Zenaide's IT staffing service do, and how fast can it deliver?
Zenaide places pre-vetted contract and contract-to-hire engineers — AI/ML, DevOps, Cloud, Data, Software Engineering, IoT, and QA — onto client teams, typically within 5–10 business days of intake. Candidates are technically screened against the actual stack and role bar, not generic skills tests, and Zenaide stays engaged through the engagement to handle scope, replacement, or conversion.
- First qualified candidates in 5–10 business days for core specialties
- Contract, contract-to-hire, and team-augmentation engagement models
- Technical screening on the real stack — not generic skills tests
- 20+ years recruiting Silicon Valley's most demanding engineering teams
- Backfill guarantee if a placement isn't the right fit
- BBB A+ rated, San Jose headquartered, serving the US nationally
The talent gap is costing you velocity.
Every open role on your engineering team is a feature not shipped, a migration delayed, a system not monitored. Internal recruiting pipelines take 45–60+ days for technical roles. External recruiters flood your inbox with irrelevant resumes.
You need candidates who match your technical requirements, fit your team, and can contribute quickly. You need them now — not in two months.
How Zenaide IT staffing works.
Technical requirements intake
A real conversation about your stack, team, standards, and what “great” looks like for this role — not a generic job description form.
Sourcing and vetting
We pull from our pre-vetted bench and actively source from our network. Every candidate goes through technical screening aligned to your specific requirements.
Candidate presentation
You see a shortlist with assessment notes, technical evaluation results, and fit analysis. Typically 5–10 business days from intake.
Engagement and support
Your team interviews and selects. We coordinate everything. Once engaged, we provide ongoing check-ins, performance tracking, and flexibility to adjust.
Roles we place.
| Discipline | Example Roles |
|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | ML Engineers, AI Engineers, MLOps Engineers, LLM/GenAI Specialists, NLP Engineers, Computer Vision Engineers |
| DevOps & Platform | DevOps Engineers, SREs, Platform Engineers, Build/Release Engineers |
| Cloud | Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers, Solutions Architects, Migration Specialists |
| Data | Data Engineers, Data Analysts, BI Developers, ETL/ELT Engineers |
| Software Engineering | Full-Stack Developers, Backend Engineers, Frontend Engineers, Mobile Developers |
| IoT | IoT Engineers, Embedded Systems Engineers, Edge Computing Specialists |
| QA & Testing | QA Engineers, SDET, Test Automation Engineers, Performance Test Engineers |
| Leadership | Technical Project Managers, Scrum Masters, Engineering Managers |
Flexible engagement options.
Contract staffing
Talent placed on your team for a defined period. Extend, convert, or transition as needs change.
Contract-to-hire
Start with a contract engagement with a built-in path to permanent hire — reducing the risk of a bad full-time commitment.
Team augmentation
Multiple contributors placed together to accelerate a specific initiative, workstream, or project.
We were three months into a search for a senior platform engineer with no results. Zenaide presented two strong candidates in a week. We hired one and she\u2019s been our highest-performing engineer.
IT staffing questions.
We place talent from mid-level individual contributors through senior and principal-level engineers, as well as technical leads and engineering managers.
Yes. Contract-to-hire is one of our standard engagement models, and we support conversions on standard contract engagements as well — with a straightforward conversion process.
Technical depth in vetting, speed from a maintained candidate pipeline in our core specialties, and ongoing accountability — not just placement and disappearance.
We address performance concerns quickly. If a replacement is needed, we prioritize backfill from our pipeline at no additional sourcing cost within the guarantee period.
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Stop waiting. Start building.
Tell us the role, the stack, and the timeline. We'll show you candidates who can actually do the work.