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The Top Tech Recruiting Agency Serving San Francisco: Finding AI and Engineering Talent in a Brutally Competitive Market.
Edison & Black is a technical staffing and recruiting firm serving San Francisco and Bay Area companies nationwide. Focused on AI, engineering, and technical staffing, we source and place top talent for Bay Area teams and beyond.
Tech Recruiting for the San Francisco Market
No market in the country is harder to hire in than San Francisco right now. Applied AI companies, enterprise SaaS teams, and venture-backed startups are all competing for the same narrow pool of machine learning engineers, infrastructure specialists, and technical leaders, and compensation packages that would look absurd anywhere else have become the baseline here.
Edison & Black works with San Francisco companies to compete in that market. We focus on AI, engineering, and technical staffing, sourcing and placing candidates who can clear rigorous technical bars set by companies that have their pick of applicants.
Why San Francisco Companies Need a Specialized Tech Recruiter
Hiring in San Francisco means competing directly against the best-funded, highest-paying companies in the world for the same candidates. A generalist staffing approach doesn't work here. Companies need recruiters who understand equity structures, refresher grants, and total compensation packages well enough to make a competitive offer sound competitive, and who can evaluate technical candidates rigorously enough that engineering teams trust the pipeline.
Our recruiters bring that context to every San Francisco search, whether it's a founding engineer for a seed-stage AI startup or a staff-level infrastructure hire for a scaling SaaS company.
Hiring for AI, Infrastructure, and Enterprise SaaS
San Francisco's tech economy runs on a small number of categories that require deep specialization. Applied AI and machine learning companies need research engineers and MLOps specialists who understand production model deployment, not just research. Enterprise SaaS companies need backend and infrastructure engineers who can build for scale from day one. Fintech and developer tools companies need engineers who move at startup speed but build with enterprise-grade rigor.
We recruit across all of these categories: AI and machine learning engineering, backend and infrastructure engineering, data science, and the product and go-to-market roles every one of these companies is racing to fill alongside their technical teams.
A Local Presence in SoMa
Edison & Black is headquartered in New York City, with a co-working presence in SoMa giving us a real, local footprint in the San Francisco market. Our recruiters work directly with Bay Area hiring managers, understand local compensation benchmarks down to the equity structure, and source candidates who are already embedded in the San Francisco tech community.
Whether you're a Series A startup making your first ten engineering hires or an established company scaling out an AI team, we work as an extension of your hiring process, from initial sourcing through offer negotiation.
What Makes Us Different
We have over 10 years of experience placing highly qualified technical professionals, and we bring that same rigor to every San Francisco search. That means real technical screening, not just resume matching, and a recruiting process built around understanding your team's culture and technical stack before we ever send a candidate your way.
If you're hiring for tech roles in San Francisco and want a recruiting partner who understands the market, reach out to our team, and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.