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Research agents for your hiring team. They find candidates through their work, research every applicant, and keep your ATS and Slack up to date.

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BreakoutAI gives every open role its own research team. Agents find the people doing the work, research every applicant and handle the admin in between.

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Hiring for research roles should not look like this

Title searches, unread applicants and ten tools to keep in sync, instead of time with candidates and hiring managers.

But like this with BreakoutAI

Research agents read every candidate’s work and every application, so your team decides with the evidence in front of it.

Recruiter buried in hiring tools
Recruiter working with BreakoutAI

Researching candidates

reading 19+ sources…

Sofia Marin

Research Engineer, Robot Learning

First author on a sim-to-real grasping paper, code public

Checking CV claims against public sources

Ask anything…

Every claim in a dossier links back to its source

  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • arXiv
  • DBLP
  • Google Scholar
  • Semantic Scholar
  • ORCID
  • DOI / Crossref
  • ResearchGate
  • Hugging Face
  • PyPI
  • GitLab
  • Medium
  • X
  • YouTube
How it works

Agents read the work, not the job title.

Share the role and one kickoff call. Agents research every candidate, sourced or applied, across eight evidence streams, so the work decides who reaches your shortlist.
LinkedIn & professional profiles
GitHub & code
Papers & preprints
Scholar & publication indexes
Personal sites & CVs
University, lab & thesis records
Company & team pages
Projects, models & demos
BreakoutAI
Shortlist ready
12,400 researched · 5 surfaced
Overnight
01 · Interview firstRole fit: 8.8
Dr. Maren Fischer
First-author action model, tested on real robots, code public. Never applied
Evidence:PaperGitHubModel weights
Verify next: Did she own training & hardware debugging?
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
12 sources
02 · Strong scientist
One uncertainty to check live
Role fit: 8.4
03 · Hidden gemRole fit: 8.1
James Whitmore
Missed by the title filter: the title says engineer, the work says research lead
Evidence:ThesisDemos
Verify next: Availability and notice period
Location: London, United Kingdom
9 sources
Synced to your ATS and Slack
Agents research · people decide
7/7 sourced

What usually takes weeks…

The role

A Research Scientist in robot learning for our robotics team in Europe. Must have first-author work on action-generating policies (RL / VLA), a public trail of code, models and benchmarks, and EU work authorization.

Your ATS · Applicants
Your ATS · Applicants
Action_Policies_preprint_v3.pdf
Action_Policies_preprint_v3.pdf
github.com/lv-robotics/policy-rl
github.com/lv-robotics/policy-rl
LinkedIn Recruiter
LinkedIn Recruiter
shortlist_tracker_v7.xlsx
shortlist_tracker_v7.xlsx
Slack · #hiring-robot-learning
Slack · #hiring-robot-learning
Calendar · this week
Calendar · this week
ChatGPT · summarise this CV
ChatGPT · summarise this CV
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01427
scholar.google.com
openreview.net/forum
huggingface.co/models
dblp.org
orcid.org/0009-4121-…
semanticscholar.org
Gmail7,251
who’s doing similar research?
the hiring manager sync is Friday!
has anyone looked at the inbound?
none of these fit the brief
who still owes a scorecard?
applicants unread
debrief moved
can’t verify
CV lost in a thread
ATS out of date

Becomes an evidence-backed shortlist with BreakoutAI

All we needed The job description One kickoff call
Research Scientist in robot learning with first-author work on action-generating policies (RL / VLA), real-robot experience, a public trail of code and models, and EU work authorization.
LinkedIn85% GitHub81% arXiv57% Google Scholar37% OpenReview27% Hugging Face8%+ 15 more sources

Real numbers from this search: 689 candidates researched into 432 evidence dossiers, with a median of 17 sources per candidate.

Dr. Lena Vondra
Postdoc, Robot Learning · ETH Zürich
First-author dexterous-policy papers · 2× challenge winner
21 sources
TOP FIT
Tomas Brandt
Sr. Software Engineer · warehouse robotics
Title says engineer, output says researcher · 1,900 commits on policy repos
14 sources
STRONG FIT
Priya Menon
Research Scientist · foundation-model lab
First-author VLA paper · public checkpoints · real-robot evals
17 sources
TOP FIT
Shortlist ready. Every claim linked to its source.
Specialties

For the roles a keyword search can’t judge

From robot learning and world models to quantum, photonics and clinical AI: specialists whose work says more than their title.

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