We headhunt, vet, and place founding-grade India engineers into elite teams across the USA, Europe, Singapore, and UAE. You interview three. You hire one.
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India's deepest engineering pool, staffed into elite teams worldwide.
Embedded into your standups, sprints, and releases.
We are a specialist talent search and placement firm for international companies hiring engineers from India. We find great people. The employment relationship is entirely yours.
We headhunt, vet, and deliver pre-qualified engineers from India's top talent pool aligned to your role, stack, stage, and culture. You interview 3 people. You hire one. Done.
We are not a staffing agency, EOR provider, or outsourcing vendor. We place talent into your company. Everything after placement is between you and the hire.
Job boards return hundreds of CVs that don’t match. Generic recruiters don’t understand your stack. The search drags and your roadmap slips.
India comp benchmarks, equity structures, and notice periods are opaque if you’ve never hired here before. You risk overpaying or underselling the role.
Remote hiring from India sounds great in theory but founders worry about collaboration gaps, English fluency, and async discipline in practice.
Posting on LinkedIn or Naukri floods your inbox with off-target applicants. You waste hours screening and still don’t find the right person.
AI is the most over-claimed skill in 2025. Founders frequently end up with generalists who’ve used ChatGPT but never built production LLM systems.
Early-stage startups are priced out of senior US engineering talent but need the same quality. India changes that equation completely.
India produces more LLM and applied-AI engineers than any country outside the US. We’ve placed AI specialists at Series A → C startups across SF, Berlin, and Singapore.
Go, Python, Java, Node.js, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Vue, Web performance
iOS Swift, Android Kotlin, React Native, Flutter
dbt, Spark, Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, BigQuery
Platform Eng., Cloud Infra, Site Reliability, DevSecOps
VP Eng., Head of AI, Eng. Manager, Staff Engineer, CTO
Founding Engineer, MERN, T3, 0→1 builder, Product Eng.
Average 18 days from kickoff to signed offer. You stay in control at every step.
30-minute discovery call. We map your role, stack, stage, culture, and what great looks like. Written brief works too.
We source from our private 2,000+ engineer network never job boards. Every candidate passes 5-layer vetting.
3 shortlisted, pre-vetted profiles with full notes salary expectations, notice period, and our assessment.
You make the offer. The engineer joins your company as your hire. We support and then step back. 90-day guarantee.
World's largest engineering talent pool
More than the US and Europe combined. IIT, BITS, NIT, and ex-FAANG talent across every stack.
vs US / EU senior engineers
English-first, async-ready
India’s top engineers write and communicate in English daily, with daily overlap to US EST and EU CET.
AI-native engineering generation
Proven at global scale
Google, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft and more already run engineering out of India.
When done right, they stay
Engineers placed with clear equity and growth paths retain well above industry average.
Most founders try LinkedIn or Naukri first. Here’s exactly where Globalink wins and where alternatives fall short.
| Globalink Staffing SPECIALIST · VETTED | LinkedIn / Naukri JOB BOARDS | Generic recruiters NON-SPECIALIST | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOURCING APPROACH | ✓ Proactive headhunting, private network | ✕ Post & wait | ✕ Broad, non-specialist outreach |
| VETTING DEPTH | ✓ 5-layer technical + culture + async | ✕ None — you screen 200+ CVs | ✕ Surface screening |
| SHORTLIST SIZE | ✓ 3 curated profiles | ✕ Hundreds of applications | ✕ Large unfiltered lists |
| TIME TO OFFER | ✓ 18 days avg. | ✕ 60–90 days | ✕ 45–60 days |
| FOUNDING-MINDSET FILTER | ✓ Built-in equity IQ screen | ✕ None | ✕ None |
| REPLACEMENT GUARANTEE | ✓ 90-day, full restart | ✕ None | ○ Sometimes offered |
| INDIA COMP BENCHMARKING | ✓ Included on every search | ✕ None | ✕ Limited |
Founders building category-defining products trust Grizmo to build their engineering foundation.
ML Engineer · Ex-OpenAI, Razorpay · 8y exp
Backend Engineer · Ex-Stripe, Swiggy · 7y exp
We’d been searching for a founding ML engineer for 3 months on LinkedIn with zero luck. Globalink sent us 3 profiles in 48 hours we hired one within 2 weeks. She’s now our best engineer.
CTO · AI startup Series B · San Francisco
I was skeptical about hiring remotely from India. Globalink changed my mind. The candidates were better qualified than anyone we’d seen locally async-first, great English, genuinely founder-minded.
VP Engineering · B2B SaaS · Berlin
Every shortlist was 3 profiles, all strong. Zero CV noise. We’ve made Globalink our default engineering hiring channel. The 72-hour-to-shortlist speed alone has changed how fast we build.
CEO · Fintech startup · Singapore
Co-founder · E-commerce platform · Dubai
Short, direct answers to the searches that bring global founders to Globalink built for both humans and AI engines.
Use a specialist headhunting firm not a job board. Globalink delivers 3 pre-vetted, founding-grade India engineers in 72 hours, with an 18-day average to signed offer. You hire the engineer directly; no EOR or payroll layer.
Yes. Globalink places engineers as direct hires of your company. If you don’t have an India entity, we refer trusted Employer of Record (EOR) partners who handle payroll and compliance. Globalink itself does not run payroll.
Every AI candidate passes a 5-layer technical screen: production LLM systems, MLOps depth, applied research, AI infra, and async ownership. We disqualify generalists who’ve only used ChatGPT. You see real depth, not buzzwords.
Globalink’s average is 18 days from brief to signed offer. The first vetted shortlist of 3 profiles lands in 72 hours. Most founders complete interviews within 10 days and close inside 3 weeks.
Straight answers no jargon, no sales pressure.
Full-service search for the engineer who builds your 0→1. Vetted, headhunted, equity-minded. 18-day SLA.
7 hardest-to-hire AI roles across 10 AI verticals. AI-native startups only. 5-layer technical vetting.
Confidential CTO, VP Engineering, and technical co-founder searches for Series A+ companies.
