What we do
Four practices, sixteen services, one market
Kernavique has four practices. Three serve the companies building and running AI infrastructure: Advisory designs the team before hiring starts, Search makes permanent hires and Capacity supplies engineers on contract through their own companies. The fourth, Expertise, provides qualified professionals to the labs and vendors that train and evaluate models. Each practice has four services, each with its own page below.
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01 · For AI infrastructure
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 detail
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Capability Blueprint
A written org design for an AI platform practice, data center delivery team or expert program: roles, hiring sequence, contract and permanent mix. - 02
Compensation Benchmarking
What commissioning leads, mission-critical engineers and platform engineers cost in the main US data center hubs, each figure tied to a dated job ad. - 03
Expert Program Design
A written design for an expert training or evaluation program, yours to run with any supplier: pool, vetting, deliverables and legal structure. - 04
Market Intelligence
Hub reports, hiring-market reads and custom research questions on AI infrastructure people, answered with sourced, dated data.
02 · For AI infrastructure
Search
Permanent leadership and engineering hires
Commissioning leads, mission-critical engineers, construction leads and AI platform leads, hired permanently.
Search in detail
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Leadership search
A dedicated, committed search for directors, practice leads, heads of mission-critical and heads of AI platform, run by Kernavique from brief to start. - 02
Engineering search
Permanent commissioning, mission-critical MEP, construction, platform and forward deployed engineers, through a contingent or committed search. - 03
Team builds
Several permanent roles hired against one plan, in sequence, so the first hires shape the later ones. It starts with a Capability Blueprint. - 04
Market mapping
Who holds the role you need, where they are and what would move them, mapped before a search starts.
03 · For AI infrastructure
Capacity
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
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Platform engineers
Individual Foundry, AIP, LLM and MLOps engineers on contract for a defined scope and term, each matched to a written scope before they start. - 02
Forward deployed teams
Two to five engineers on contract who join a client program together under a lead, for programs that need a team from the start. - 03
Surge capacity
Short-notice engineers on contract for a program that has slipped or grown, scoped with you and proposed by name. - 04
Contract to permanent
Convert an engineer on contract to a permanent employee at the end of the term, after both sides have tested the fit on real work.
04 · For labs and data vendors
Expertise
Qualified professionals for model training and evaluation
Vetted legal, finance, tax and clinical professionals for AI training and evaluation programs.
Expertise in detail
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Expert sourcing
Named, vetted legal, finance, tax and clinical professionals for a defined evaluation or data program, introduced before they start. - 02
Evaluation panels
Small panels of qualified practitioners who grade, rank and write rubrics against your brief, where one expert’s view is not enough. - 03
Managed expert teams
A team of vetted professionals with a lead, delivering per deliverable rather than per hour, managed through one relationship. - 04
Program setup
The first stage of an Expertise engagement: we set the pool, vetting, deliverable units and conduct rules, then source the experts who work to them.
How we work
Two tracks, each with four steps.
Search, Capacity and Expertise run 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.
Explore
Browse by client, role and location.
Who we work with
The five kinds of company we work for, and what each is up against when it hires.Roles
The roles we fill, what each one does and what employers publish for it.Locations
The US data center hubs we hire in, with local market figures and published pay.Briefing
Sourced reads on the AI infrastructure hiring market from Kernavique Research.
Not sure which practice fits?
Tell us what you are building on a 30-minute call. We will say which practice fits, or that none does.