AI infrastructure advisory
People behind the infrastructure.
Kernavique builds the teams behind AI infrastructure. Advisory, permanent search and contract engineering capacity for the companies building and running it, and domain experts for the labs training the models.

- Data
- AI
- Infrastructure
What we do
Advisory, search and contract capacity for AI infrastructure.
Three of our four practices serve the companies building and running AI infrastructure: one plans the team, one hires it permanently and one supplies engineers on contract.
Advisory
Team design and market intelligence, fixed scope
Fixed-scope advice before the hiring starts: what team to build, in what order and what it costs in your market.
Advisory in detailSearch
Permanent leadership and engineering hires
Commissioning leads, mission-critical engineers, construction leads and AI platform leads, hired permanently.
Search in detailCapacity
Engineers on contract, individually or as a team
Foundry, AIP, LLM and MLOps engineers on contract through their own companies, for a defined scope and term.
Capacity in detail
Expertise
Qualified professionals for model training and evaluation
English-law solicitors and barristers, chartered accountants and tax specialists, clinicians, and front-office finance and compliance professionals, for AI labs, vertical-AI builders, and data and evaluation vendors. Vetted, conflict-checked and available per deliverable or as a managed team.
Every practice and service on one page: What we do
From the ground up
A data center goes up in layers. Each one needs different people.
- 01
Floor and structure
Construction and project leads - 02
Frame, racks and power
Mission-critical electrical engineers - 03
Cooling and controls
Mission-critical mechanical engineers - 04
Commissioning
Commissioning managers and agents




Who we work with
Five kinds of client, one market.
- 01
Data center developers, operators and contractors
Commissioning leads, mission-critical engineers and project leads for programs in Northern Virginia, Atlanta, Columbus, Phoenix and Dallas–Fort Worth. - 02
Engineering and commissioning consultancies
Permanent hires for the commissioning and MEP teams that carry your data center work, and market mapping before you open a new hub. - 03
AI platform consultancies and Palantir partners
Foundry, AIP and LLM engineers on contract, individually or as forward deployed teams, for programs you already hold. - 04
AI labs and data vendors
Vetted legal, finance, tax and clinical professionals for training and evaluation, sourced against your brief. - 05
Series A to C AI companies
A Capability Blueprint before your first platform hires, then the search or contract capacity to carry it out. Not sure where you fit?
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How we work
Two tracks, each with four steps.
Hiring and capacity work runs from a written brief to named people. Advisory runs from a diagnosis to a written plan you own.
Hiring and capacity
Search, Capacity and Expertise
- BriefA 30-minute call. We write the specification back to you.
- ShortlistNamed people, with our notes, to a timing agreed at the brief.
- InterviewsWe run the process. You make the decision.
- StartWe stay involved through the first 90 days.
Advisory
Fixed scope
- DiagnoseWhat you are building and what it needs.
- DesignRoles, sequence, mix and cost.
- RecommendA written plan you own.
- DeliverSearch and Capacity execute it, if you want us to.
Briefing
Sourced reads on the AI infrastructure hiring market.
Published by Kernavique Research. Every figure carries its source and date. All Briefing pieces
- Briefing
How AI labs source domain experts
How AI labs source qualified professionals for training and evaluation, what platforms publish on pay, and the UK checks for lawyers, accountants and doctors.
Read the piece - Briefing
How to hire a forward deployed engineer
What a forward deployed engineer does, what to screen for, how to interview, where these engineers come from and what employers publish on pay.
Read the piece - Briefing
Why commissioning agents are hard to hire
Why data center commissioning agents are scarce, from a long credential path and a small certified pool to record construction, and what hiring teams can do.
Read the piece
Contact
Talk to us
The simplest way to start is an email. We reply to arrange a 30-minute call, then write the brief back to you so you can check we have understood it.
- Hours
- 08:00 to 20:00 Eastern
Email us
Tell us what you need and we will reply to arrange a 30-minute call.
Useful to include
- What you are building
- The roles or experts you need
- Where, and by when