We Make Hiring Top Engineering Talent Easy

At Thinkteks, we specialize in recruiting elite engineering talent—fast, efficiently, and with precision. As we are engineers turned recruiters, we understand both the technical and human side of hiring. Here’s what you can expect when you work with us:

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    A dedicated hiring partner who handles the entire process from intake to onboarding

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    Access to a deep, curated network of pre-vetted engineering professionals

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    Fast placements—hire the right talent quickly

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    Transparent, below-market 10% placement fee

“Tony is a consummate professional with an eye for talent. He helped our team recruit IT candidates in a hyper competitive talent market. Thanks for a job well done! “

Aseem Kapur
Energy & eMobility Executive, Clean Energy Con Edison

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Scale Your Business with the ROI-Driven Engineering Talent Agency

The demand for top engineering talent has never been higher, and scaling your startup or enterprise requires the right experts to drive innovation. Thinkteks helps you build high-performing engineering teams with specialists in AI, machine learning, cybersecurity, blockchain, cloud computing, and embedded systems. Our network includes DevOps engineers, full-stack developers, data scientists, robotics experts, and quantum computing professionals—ensuring you have the skills to scale efficiently.

  • Targeted Hiring for Growth

    Need to accelerate product development or expand your technical capabilities?

  • Guaranteed Success

    Whether you’re launching, scaling, or optimizing, we connect you with the right talent to fuel your growth.

This positions Thinkteks as the go-to partner for startups and enterprise tech companies looking to scale with the right talent. Let me know if you’d like any refinements!

State of Tech Staffing

Key Hiring Challenges & Solutions

Who’s Behind Thinkteks?

Tony Kochhar

Thinkteks is led by Tony Kochhar, a seasoned hardware and software engineer with 20 years of experience. Tony has personally hired over 1,000 engineers across startups, small businesses, and enterprise-scale companies. His deep industry knowledge ensures that our recruitment process is tailored to the real-world needs of engineering teams.

Our Hiring Expert

Year's of Experience

Candidates Hired

Our Candidate Network

Tech Recruiting, Rewired by Engineers

We’re not traditional recruiters — we’re engineers who recruit. Our tech-driven process skips fluff, screens deeper, and sends only job-ready talent your way. Faster hires. Better fits.

The Problem
Recruiters lack technical depth. Resumes don’t show real skill. Interviews take too long.
Our Solution

Thinkteks combines engineering expertise with hands-on evaluations and efficient screening — delivering top candidates with zero wasted time.

Transparent Pricing Only 10% Commission

Problem

Traditional recruiting agencies charge excessive fees, typically between 25-30% of a candidate’s first-year salary, making hiring costly.

Solution

At Thinkteks, we keep things simple and fair with a low 10% commission rate, offering a high-quality, cost-effective alternative to traditional recruitment firms.

U.S. Engineering Sector

The U.S. engineering sector is experiencing a significant talent gap, with demand outpacing supply. While the workforce consists of about 5.38 million engineers, the industry faces 195,000 annual job openings, driven by growth and retirements. However, only 141,000 engineering graduates enter the workforce each year, leaving a 54,000-person shortfall.

Key figures:

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    Annual Job Openings: 195,000

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    Annual Engineering Graduates: 141,000

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    Talent Shortage: 54,000 per year

Simple Three-Step Hiring Process for Thinkteks

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    Step 1: Discover Your Needs

    We conduct a deep intake call to understand your engineering needs, culture, and goals, ensuring we target the right talent for your team.

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    Step 2: Match with Precision

    Using our in-house engineering expertise and exclusive talent network, we match you with top engineers who fit your requirements, delivering quality candidates fast.

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    Step 3: Hire with Confidence

    We streamline the hiring process at a flat 10% fee, handling interviews, onboarding, and more; so you can focus on growing your business.

The Talent We Deliver

At Thinkteks, we specialize in connecting innovative companies with high-performing, technically-vetted talent across software engineering, infrastructure, data, and AI. Whether you’re building core products, scaling infrastructure, or integrating cutting-edge AI solutions, we deliver professionals who not only meet technical requirements but understand your business goals from day one.

Software Engineering & Development

We recruit skilled engineers across the full software stack—experts in building scalable, high-performance systems with modern frameworks and cloud platforms.

  • Full-Stack Developers – React, Angular, Node.js, Django, Ruby on Rails
  • Backend Engineers – Python, Java, Go, .NET, Rust
  • Frontend Engineers – TypeScript, React.js, Vue.js, Svelte
  • Mobile Developers – Swift, Kotlin, React Native, Flutter
  • Embedded Systems Engineers – C/C++, ARM Cortex, IoT, RTOS
Data Science & Engineering

Data is at the core of product and business strategy—we help you build teams that unlock insights and enable data-driven decision-making.

  • Data Engineers – SQL, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, dbt
  • Data Scientists – Predictive modeling, statistical analysis, Python, R
  • Analytics Engineers – BI tools, metrics development, modern data stack (Looker, Tableau, dbt)
Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure

From cloud-native applications to scalable infrastructure, we source engineers who build and support reliable systems at scale.

  • DevOps Engineers – AWS, GCP, Azure, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines
  • Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) – Observability, incident response, infrastructure as code
  • Cloud Architects – Cloud migration, architecture design, cost optimization
  • Cybersecurity Engineers – Threat modeling, penetration testing, SOC integration
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

AI is no longer experimental—it’s foundational. We connect you with elite talent in applied ML, LLM development, and generative AI who can bring intelligent systems to life.

  • ML Engineers – Model training, deployment, optimization (TensorFlow, PyTorch, MLflow)
  • LLM & GenAI Developers – LangChain, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, prompt engineering
  • RAG Engineers – Vector databases (Pinecone, FAISS), knowledge retrieval, semantic search
  • NLP & Computer Vision Engineers – Text generation, sentiment analysis, object detection
  • AI Product Managers – AI-first roadmaps, UX for AI, business integration
  • Ethical AI Experts

Review from Clients

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I first met Tony when our company was outsourcing some recruiting efforts and he helped us find a few key individuals in our engineering organization. Not too long thereafter, Tony came aboard as a full time recruiter for our org and eventually was running the recruiting team.

Engineering management in my group always had an easy time working with Tony. His methods seemed well established and effective and his process was transparent. Tony understands the concepts of software engineering and what we are looking for at a higher level than most non-engineers.

Tony is an eaay going well, a team player and a pleasure to work with.

Jim Mortko

Tony and I were colleagues for four years at Hearst and he was amazing to work with. Tony is professional, focused, driven and also really fun. He was able to recruit top talent, while focused on the business profitability, wellbeing, diversity, and overall success. He is a positive team builder – and social coordinator on top of that! I hope to work with Tony again in the future.

Renetta Welty

Tony is a consummate professional with an eye for talent. He helped our team recruit IT candidates in a hyper competitive talent market. Thanks for a job well done!

Aseem Kapur

Tony is the kind of recruitment leader every team DREAMS of. He is a relentless hustler who works tirelessly to build the precise team every functional leader is looking for. Tony was assigned to my team at Trilogy at a pivotal point. We had long broken the limits of what our scrappy team could do — and we needed to expand FAST. Days upon his arrival, he was tasked with helping us to hire dozens of people in roles for which we only had a semblance of a template. Despite the ambiguity of our ask, we knew these roles were mission-critical for our organization’s success.

Tony took the challenge in stride and worked many days and nights (to our surprise!) sourcing leads, passing them our way, iterating on the feedback, and continuing to push until the job was done. Even for a skeptical manager like myself who took pride in “doing my own recruiting,” — Tony quickly demonstrated the exponential effect that comes from working with a real seasoned professional who knows how to add value even in a crazy start-up environment.

Tony is humble, positive, and truly ambitious. He is a phenomenal collaborator and an exceptional driver of success. I know that the next organization that takes him in is in for a MASSIVE lift. Trust me. You won’t know what hit you.

Ahmed F. Haque

Tony is an invaluable resource for building fantastic teams. He takes his time to truly understand the role responsibility and more importantly what persona will fit best on my team. He works tirelessly to accommodate last-minute changes to job descriptions. Tony’s upbeat “we can do that” attitude makes the hiring process a breeze for me as a hiring manager.

Linda K. Kirk M.Ed. (She/Her)

Tony is a talented and professional individual who is a pleasure to work with. He combines a seasoned sales approach with great relationship management skills and a strong understanding of recruitment based business. He is creative, dauntlessly positive and an excellent presenter. He will have an immediately positive impact on any environment where these skills are prerequisites for success.

Gideon Harris

I had the pleasure of working with Tony at Agoda. He is very effective at building pipelines for hard to fill software engineering positions. His ability to work with and create strong relationships with hiring managers and the business as a whole was key to his success. Due to his tech background he was able to hit the ground running for us, which is another strength of his. What I like the most is his enthusiasm for the job. He worked remotely from NY for us, but still made himself available for his managers in Bangkok. The guy lives and breaths recruitment!.

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