Connecting frontier companies with the people building the future of AI.
Tanoshii partners with early-stage AI labs and creative technology companies to identify exceptional engineers, researchers, product leaders, and designers. The best builders rarely apply for jobs. We meet them in research labs, open-source communities, and frontier technology companies.
Connecting frontier companies with the people building the future of AI.
Tanoshii partners with early-stage AI labs and creative technology companies to identify exceptional engineers, researchers, product leaders, and designers. The best builders rarely apply for jobs. We meet them in research labs, open-source communities, and frontier technology companies.
Tanoshii partners with early-stage AI labs and creative technology companies to identify exceptional engineers, researchers, product leaders, and designers.
The best builders rarely apply for jobs. We meet them in research labs, open-source communities, and frontier technology companies.
Where we work.
Tanoshii works with frontier AI labs and creative technology companies across the US, Europe, and China.
Services
How we work.
1. Founder-Led Search
Every search is led directly by Tanoshii’s founder.
2. Deep Networks
We identify exceptional talent through research labs, open-source communities, and deep industry relationships.
3. Focused Execution
Targeted searches designed to surface exceptional candidates quickly.
Where we work.
Tanoshii works with frontier AI labs and creative technology companies across the US and Europe, and China.
Selected Searches
Many of the roles we work on sit at the technical frontier of AI and creative technology.
Many of the roles we work on sit at the technical frontier of AI and creative technology.
ML systems engineers building real-time generative video pipelines
Research scientists working on multimodal foundation models
GPU/ Kernal engineers optimising training and inference infrastructure
Product leaders building AI creator platforms
Design engineers developing next-generation creative tools
Founding SWE’s
Trusted By.
Trusted By.
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Nick is amazing at what he does, his great attitude, top tier networking skills and ability to simply "deliver" can be easily seen from Google Earth! - He is persistent and gets the job done - I will definitely work with Nick again
Artur Urban
Head of Talent, Sportradar
Tanoshii helped us quickly hire our founding research scientists. They deeply understand the real-time AI space and consistently bring high-bar talent.
Lina Colluci
Co-Founder & CEO, LemonSlice
Tanoshii sent us three research scientists — we offered all three. They understood exactly what we needed.
Kfir Aberman
Director of Research, Decart
Nicholas is one of the sharpest and most diligent recruiters I've worked with. He's done a fantastic job helping us build our engineering and go-to-market teams. I recommend him whole-heartedly for any early stage tech company looking to grow their orgs
Diwakar Ganesan
CEO, Tumeke
We work with Tanoshii on a retained basis, they have been instrumental in connecting us to the people we need to push our company forward.
Fangchang Ma
CEO, Nuance Labs
Our Thinking.
Our Thinking.
Knowledge
We know where exceptional talent actually lives. Beyond job boards in research papers, open-source communities, and technical meetups.
Results
Access matters, but so does execution. We know how to reach exceptional candidates and how to close them.
Perspective
Talent is global. Our founder is British-born, of Ethiopian heritage, and based between Barcelona and New York.
Building something ambitious?
We help frontier companies hire the people capable of doing it.
Building something ambitious?
We help frontier companies hire the people capable of doing it.
Building something ambitious?
We help frontier companies hire the people capable of doing it.