A recruiting firm
built by researchers,
for researchers.
The best researchers are going to define what AI becomes. Microforge exists to help them get into the right rooms.
— Early partners & customers
The best researchers are going to define what AI becomes. Microforge exists to help them get into the right rooms.
We’re a team of researchers and engineers from Stanford and IIT, and only work with neolabs that make us want to quit our founder jobs and join them full-time. Our primary objective is to build a deep understanding of your research work, and help you find the right neolabs that will value those experiences.
And when something real shows up, we’ll help you think through the offer: compensation, equity, vesting, roles. We’ll help you negotiate what makes most sense for you, and will never push you to accept an offer when we believe you deserve better.
As researchers and engineers, we sit across from candidates and talk about their work in a way no other recruiter can. We know that access to top research talent is the biggest bottleneck — so we tap into our Stanford and IIT network to build real relationships with every researcher we meet.
Think of us as forward-deployed recruiters — cliché, we know. We’ve built AI agents that continuously track 200K+ researchers across papers, GitHub, Google Scholar, and ArXiv — and surface the 100 most relevant candidates for your role. That lets us move at a pace no other firm can replicate. If you’re building your research team, please reach out — we’d love to intro you to our customers.