Justin Malki

What’s up everybody? Allow me to reintroduce myself. 🎤 My name is Justin Malki, "That AI Recruiter". If you’ve been seeing my posts lately, you know we just launched @StealthTalent — but today, I want to bring this back to me and you. Why am I here? Because I believe hiring is broken, and I’m on a mission to help fix it. That means I’m not just building a company — I’m building a community. What’s in it for you if you follow me: you’re going to get real-world job search advice. I want to give behind-the-scenes insights on where hiring is heading — especially how AI is changing the game. Raw, honest, practical stuff I use every day to help candidates and hiring managers win. Don’t believe me? Check out the 80+ 5-star reviews I’ve gotten from candidates I’ve helped over the years. We built Stealth to help great people get noticed, help teams hire faster, and create a better experience on both sides of the table. But this post isn’t just “check us out” — I want to engage with you. If you’re looking for a role, drop what you’re targeting. If you’re hiring, DM me directly — I’d love to connect or even help make an intro. If you want to see what we’re building, visit: hirewithstealth.com. And if you want the inside look at our launch, I’ll drop the YouTube video in the first comment. Thank you for being part of this journey — let’s keep building, learning, and lifting each other up. PVS 👏

At Stealth, we are dedicated to advancing deep technology, particularly in AI, machine learning, generative AI, and data engineering. We represent some of the most exceptional technical talent in the U.S., including engineers who have built scalable systems, implemented machine learning models in production, and contributed to cutting-edge large language models and agentic infrastructure. Each candidate we have personally met with and is ready for immediate opportunities. And unfortunately, because I can not find jobs for every single one of them, I’m committed to getting the best of them hired before the holidays. If you’re hiring in this space, message me, because I would love to share their profiles with you!

I'm hiring for 3 roles in San Francisco (hybrid). They're all on a team that is building some of the most compelling developer infrastructure I've seen, focused on the tools developers use to build in the AI + agentic era. 1. Platform PM — Developer Products Own the roadmap, define the tooling strategy, and shape how devs build with LLMs and integrations. It’s product work with real weight and depth. 2 & 3. Backend Platform Engineer & Principal Engineer — Developer Tools These roles sit in the same domain — dev-facing APIs, SDKs, sandboxes, model orchestration. The principal role goes deeper on system design and architecture. If you know a PM or Senior Engineers who are fluent in developer platforms, API ecosystems, extensibility frameworks, or LLM-powered tooling... I’d love to connect and we can offer a cash referral bonus, just in time for the holidays :) Please share and tag anyone you know! @StealthTalentSolutions

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I accepted a new job offer today. Less than 2 weeks after I started my job search. In the worst job market in 15 years, I had 5 official job offers, 2 verbal job offers, and even more "come join us whenever you want" pitches than I can count. Here's the roadmap of how I did it so you can implement it yourself: 1: It all came through networking I didn't apply to one single company. It all came through calling people I worked with in the past. And not just "ground level" referrals, but people with actual influence with decision makers, or are decision makers themselves. I figured, these people know who I am, and what I'm capable of. This was important because it will make rebuilding my political equity that much easier. Coming in and having someone of influence vouch for me and to help make introductions was a big factor for me. That, and I didn't have to go through any formal interview process. In fact, I only spoke to one recruiter throughout this whole thing. The actual decision makers themselves drove this process for every offer except one. So make sure you're focusing on building relationships internally - upwards, downwards, and sideways. You never know where some of these people end up in a few years. 2: Networking Internally Of course, this network wasn't built overnight. One of the many things my late father taught me was to build your network for the long term, because you never know what doors it can open up for you later on in life. So, when I first at started my old company 10 years ago, I made it a priority to network with the top performers in the office. When most people think of networking, they think of outside events our DMing people online. Now that stuff is important, but for the purpose of this post, all of my offers except for 2 were via people I worked with in the past. 3: Realizing Top mentors are busy I figured out pretty quickly that, if I’m reaching out and asking these people to mentor me, other people are too. So why should they mentor me over everyone else? My first move was to make sure I was the hardest worker there. I was the first one in the office, last one to leave. So they knew immediately I was willing to put in the work. The next was to offer to take them out for coffee, lunch, happy hours, you name it. I did this on my little $35k base salary. All the new hires had this salary, and they knew it too, so again, they knew I was serious when I told them I refused to let them pay for the bill. Slowly but surely I won them over. 4: Advice in real time I remember one senior recruiter quitting, who sat next to who would then be my biggest mentor, so I switched desks asap. Just hearing him on the phone, taking calls from candidates and clients, how he conducted himself, was a masterclass. This was so clutch. Made it so easy to pop over each other’s desks and ask quick 1-2 questions. Eventually, I would poke in asking questions why he did certain things the way he did. Then as I was working with my candidates and clients, I would ask him for advice in real time. This way he was engaged and saw me implement his advice in real time. I didn’t do this with just him, but with another senior performer in the office. 5: Building relationships with my managers I also was asking the advice of my managers. One in particular I became close with and we grew a great relationship over the course of my career. As I started “winning” more, I didn’t take credit. I gave it. And I made my managers look good in the process. As I made one of them look good, he also went out of his way to make me look good. And we reciprocated this back and forth. Eventually, he became the VP of sales and took me up the ladder with him. 6: Becoming a top performer & recognizing others Of course it's easier to build your network internally when you're a top performer. With the help of my mentors and managers, I kept smashing company records left and right. But it wasn't just about me. My performance raised the bar and broke barriers. With every milestone I hit, other people started realizing what's actually possible and it raised their performance too. So whenever other people starting hitting their new milestones, I was virtually the first person to reach out to congratulate them, and offer advice on how to hit the next one. 7: Giving Others Credit Eventually my reputation grew and spread. Other teams wanted to work with me. I started making placements with everyone on our east coast division. But the thing is, I didn’t really take any credit. I always made sure the other people involved received more recognition than me. I figured, it didn’t matter, because the executives upstairs would keep seeing my name pop up and eventually I am the real impact player behind the scenes. Plus, people love recognition in general. As these people moved onto other companies, they will most certainly remember me not just for my performance, but how I made them feel special. 8: Getting Laid Off Eventually, after years of top performance and building out my network, my entire division was whacked! It didn’t come to a surprise. About a year or so ago I saw the music was going to stop at our company. Overall performance wasn’t great, shuffling executives in and out, etc. I took some time off to decompress especially with the passing of my father to figure out what I wanted to do. 9: Reaching out to my network Now is the time where 10+ years of building and curating my network was going to pay off. I knew I wanted to be intentional about who I reached out to. I started out with not just referrals, but referrals of influence. Meaning it wasn’t enough they worked there. They either had to be a decision maker, or have influence with a decision maker. From there, just to see what my options were, I started reaching out to a few more people I enjoyed working with, that I knew were successful at their new companies. On top of that, virtually anytime someone that was also laid off with me that took an interview, that company eventually reached out to me once they heard I was available. So I was taking calls left and right the past 2 weeks. 10: Fast tracking the interview process I knew everyone would be chomping at the bits to bring me on so I made it very clear from day 1 that I wanted to take my time. This way, I wasn’t spending my time talking to the wrong people, and with the companies I did like, I could process through them faster. That being said, I didn’t have to apply anywhere. The referrals just sent me to either the person I’d be reporting to or their boss. And for the companies I really liked, I did the entire interview process in a week, and in 2 instances, a day. 11: Acting with extreme transparency From the very first call, I made it clear what I was looking for and my expectations for my next employer, manager, role, and income. On top of that, without mentioning the names of the companies I was speaking with, I was very honest where I was at in the process with the other companies. Further, I was even more honest with where that specific company ranked, and if they still wanted to proceed with me to go through their interview process to show them I was cognizant of not wasting their time if they weren't "serious contenders". 12: Choosing the company: It landed down to 3 offers I was serious about. The one I accepted, is where the first mentor I had mentioned above, their company is in the same exact situation my old company was in about 7-8 years ago. They’re landing all these accounts, they’re having growing pains, and they need someone who can not only contribute, but help map out what they need to do. I also already have experience with half the accounts they have so there would be minimal ramp up involved. The 2nd place one was a small, yet growing, recruiting startup. One of my biggest mid-career mentors has a very successful company. But it would have required a little bit of a learning curve. There was nothing “wrong” with their offer, I was just more familiar with the other one. The 3rd place one was actually in first place briefly. I met the entire team in person at their NY office. They had an amazing energy about them. A few senior top billers and a lot of up and commers. Ultimately why I didn’t move forward was that their team was onsite 3x/week in NY. Although they offered me remote, I knew eventually at some point this would cause issues internally with the other producers. 13: Declining offers the right way So far with all of the offers I have declined, they've essentially given me a standing job offer. Which means if the company I go to goes bankrupt or I somehow get whacked again in 6-12 months, I can call them and they'll bring me onboard. Now, I am also taking an extra step to ensure a smooth transition. I am not sending them a generic email template I made on ChatGPT. I am personally calling each of them, not just the main POC, but each person that was involved in the process. Because, again, you never know where each person ends up in the next 3, 5, 10 years. So the focus isn't keeping that bridge and network with that specific company, but with the specific people.

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@emilyinvc Hey Emily! We’re raising!! Our team has 40 years of experience in Recruiting and Hiring, we’re building the next-gen AI hiring and recruiting platform. @BDuzco @HermisAlvarenga

PRE-SEED AND SEED CHECKS i’ve given myself the goal of investing 10 $100k checks into pre-seed and seed stage AI companies over the course of July and August who’s raising?

Okay, let me get this straight... 1. You have 1-click n8n, Zapier, and Lindy AI agent templates to automate your content, outreach, research, reporting, anything. 2. You can clone your voice with 5 seconds of audio. 3. You can run billion-parameter AI models on your laptop for free. 4. You have agents that write, debug, and ship code while you sleep. 5. You can turn scripts into talking head videos with your face and voice. 6. You can spin up AI agents to negotiate bills and cancel subscriptions. 7. You can summarize 300-page PDFs in seconds. 8. You can turn rough Looms into polished blog posts instantly. 9. You can generate personalized landing pages for every visitor. 10. You can talk to your data like it's ChatGPT. 11. You can train a custom GPT on your company docs and have it answer support tickets 24/7. 12. You can A/B test 100 ad creatives before you spend a dollar... all AI-generated. 13. You can scrape the internet, analyze competitors, and generate go-to-market strategies overnight. 14. You can deepfake yourself into any language and accent to localize content globally. 15. You can run AI to audit your finances and suggest tax optimizations (for a pretty much free second opinion) 16. You can generate an entire week of social content with tone, brand, and format baked in. 17. You can create full e-commerce stores from just a CSV and a brand vibe. 18. You can deploy voice agents that call leads, qualify them, and update your CRM... in your voice. 19. TLDR; you can do a lot, my friend This is the greatest unlock for solo builders since the App Store. Enjoy it.

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If you looked at my ChatGPT history you would see me asking it questions like: How old is Lil Wayne? How do you stop weeds from growing in my yard? Give me a banana bread recipe! ChatGPT voice mode is surprisingly useful and endlessly entertaining. What's the most random thing you've asked ChatGPT? Try it out, lmk!

Last week was insane (in a great way)! I had 55 candidate convos, 10 client demos, and 2 more life-changing offers locked in. That's 7 new careers launched in just 4 weeks! This is why I do what I do. One of the offers is a candidate who's moving cross-country for his dream job from NY to LA. His words? "You literally changed our lives." His wife even jumped on to say thanks! This is why we do what we do at Stealth. Is there any way we can top last week?

We're Hiring: Full-Stack Software Engineer (Gen AI) --- I’m actively recruiting for a hands-on Full-Stack Engineer to help productionalize Gen AI models into scalable services. This is a 9–12 month contract (with strong potential to extend or convert to FTE), 100% remote (U.S.-based), and starts immediately. What You'll Be Doing: • Turning RAG pipelines and embeddings into robust APIs. • Deploying with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform. • Building backend services in Python (Node.js bonus). • Occasionally contributing to React front-end components. You Bring: • 5+ years of backend software experience. • Deep Python skills and DevOps mindset. • Knowledge of LLM integrations (Azure OpenAI, Bedrock, vector stores). • Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability tools.

starting today i’m doing a challenge: → 1 video a day → show your face → share what you’re building or living → no filters, just real it’s the fail in public challenge, and everyone’s invited. inspired by @woocassh one of our own. let’s flood the timeline with real stories. join us.

Drowning in resumes that don’t match your roles? I know you are. That's why we built @StealthTalent - check it out. See how our AI-powered engine: • Instantly surfaces vetted, top-ranked candidates • Uses real-time alignment of your role and scores to eliminate guesswork • Cuts hiring time from weeks to hours This isn't a job board. It’s the future of precision hiring—and it's live. Let's get a demo set up for you today!

ChatGPT just entered the top 5 most-visited websites in the world. 📈 5.1 billion visits last month. People aren’t just dabbling in AI—they’re building it into their daily workflows. It’s not a trend. It’s the new interface of the internet. It's also insane how Google has 36% of monthly traffic in the world! 🤖

Here’s how I got this candidate hired in 4 days: Speed isn’t just about urgency, it’s about preparation, alignment, and execution. Here’s the breakdown: Day 1 – Sourced the candidate from our vetted pipeline. Already had notes from a prior conversation: salary expectations, timeline, preferred work setup, and role alignment. Day 2 – Prepped them for the interview with context on the hiring manager, team, and the specific pain points the company needed solved. Day 3 – Candidate nailed the one-and-done interview. Client called and said, “They’re exactly what we’ve been looking for.” Day 4 – Offer extended and accepted. Just real relationships, full transparency, and a process built to move. Hiring doesn’t have to take 45 days. When the right candidate meets the right team, with no noise in between, 4 days is all it takes.

Every Monday, I use ChatGPT to plan my week in under 10 minutes. Try this out. First, I brain dump everything—work tasks, personal stuff, random ideas. No structure, just raw notes. Then I tell it: “Organize by priority and category—Work, Personal, Follow-ups, Urgent.” It turns the chaos into a clean to-do list. Next, I say: “Build a weekly plan. Stack deep work early, keep Friday light, max 3-5 priorities per day.” It gives me a schedule I can actually stick to. Last, I ask for a 1-paragraph summary I can paste into Notion or Slack. That’s it. No templates. No tools. Just smart prompting. Try it once. You'll never go back.

Golfed out in Napa on Friday with a few VCs working with some of the most exciting AI companies out there. Have a great start to the week everyone! @StealthTalent

I’ve been recruiting on a Data Science role for my client all week—and every single conversation has me FIRED TF UP. These aren't just technical interviews. They’re deep dives into how AI is completely reshaping the world: • In bioscience, it's accelerating drug discovery • In education, it's reinventing how people learn • In medical research, it's powering breakthroughs faster than ever • In technology, it's transforming every product roadmap I’m talking to PhDs and ML engineers who are building the future in real-time—people fluent in LLMs, RAG, advanced prompt engineering, and applied AI at scale. It’s mind-blowing how fast this space is evolving and how sharp this talent pool is. If you’re building a Data Science or AI/ML team, I’m sitting on some absolute killers. I’ll gladly share my top candidates—just DM me.