Dex

What Dex does

Dex is an AI-powered recruiting startup that connects engineers with curated job opportunities and provides direct introductions to hiring managers. It aims to streamline the job search process by surfacing relevant, often unadvertised, engineering roles and accelerating the time from referral to offer. Dex is designed for engineers seeking the right career move, offering full context on roles and skipping traditional application and recruiter screening processes. The platform leverages AI to provide the judgment of a great recruiter at scale and speed, addressing issues like CV spam bots and dehumanizing AI interviewers in the current recruitment landscape.

Products

• DexAn AI-powered platform that provides engineers with a curated shortlist of roles and direct introductions to hiring managers, bypassing traditional job applications and recruiter screens.

Key capabilities

• AI-powered role matching
• Curated role shortlists
• Direct introductions to hiring managers
• Access to unadvertised engineering roles
• Upfront salary disclosure
• Skip recruiter screens
• Accelerated hiring process

Use cases

• Engineers seeking new job opportunities
• Companies looking to hire engineers efficiently
• Streamlining the recruitment process for high-quality candidates

AI approach

Dex uses AI to match engineers with suitable job roles, providing curated sets of opportunities and direct introductions to hiring managers. The team includes ML engineers with experience in LLMs, GenAI products, retrieval-augmented generation systems, multimodal learning, and full-stack AI product deployment. They also have a Human AI Interaction Engineer focused on how teams communicate and perform, and who has built vision, language, and multimodal Transformer models.

Tech named: LLMs, GenAI, retrieval-augmented generation systems, large language models, multimodal learning, Transformer models

What it says sets it apart

• Direct introductions to hiring teams
• Access to roles not publicly posted
• Faster time to offer compared to job boards
• Upfront salary information
• Bypasses traditional application and recruiter screening
• AI-driven matching providing 'judgment of a great recruiter'

Funding rounds we track

From the AI funding tracker — rounds as reported by the linked publications.