How Anyscale Finds Perfect Fit Hires with AI-Driven Search

Choosing the Right Partner for AI-Powered Sourcing

Anyscale sits at the center of a $247B+ TAM (Bloomberg), empowering companies to build the future of AI without reinventing infrastructure.

As the creators of Ray, Anyscale built on its powerful open-source foundation to deliver seamless scalability from first idea to real-world impact.

For Rich and his team, the challenge wasn’t just sourcing more candidates. It was finding the right ones, quickly. 

“45 percent sourced candidates amongst all our hires. Some of the best candidates are still sourced candidates.”

But their old workflow was slowing them down. The team spent hours inside legacy recruiting tools toggling tabs, flipping through dozens of pages, and manually reviewing talent profiles with no way to prioritize quality.

“You have, like, sometimes 10 pages of 25 candidates, and you gotta go through each page. And we’re not gonna have time to look at a thousand candidates.”

Rich and his team had evaluated other AI tools, but nothing felt truly AI-native. Juicebox stood out. 

“Juicebox is the first that I’ve seen that adds value. AI’s been around since ChatGPT launched, and I figured someone would eventually build a real sourcing tool with it. This was the first one that actually worked.”

Instead of retrofitting AI into outdated workflows, Juicebox rethought the entire sourcing experience from the ground up. The team gained faster access to top-fit candidates with clear rationale behind why profiles were a match.

Raising the Bar for Quality Talent, in Half the Time

To build consistency and efficiency into the team’s workflow, Rich introduced regular “sourcing jams” — 1-hour sourcing sessions with the full team focused on the same role.

“My team and I, three days a week we do an hour sourcing jam where the whole team will sit together and source the same role. In an hour, with 7 of us, we’d probably find about 40-60 candidates.”

The team didn’t just save time, but could now find higher-quality talent profiles in a fraction of the time.

“If we were to do the same on Juicebox, I think we’d find 30 candidates in half the time, but they’d be the best candidates out of the 60 we would have found through [legacy recruiting platform]. It’s higher quality in a shorter period of time.”

With Juicebox, the team no longer had to choose between quality and volume. They could achieve both, faster than ever before.

One System for Research, Strategy, and Ranking

The impact of Juicebox extended beyond sourcing. Rich’s team used it as a full-stack discovery engine, researching target companies, identifying technical talent, and calibrating their strategy across markets.

“My team loves Juicebox for the search, discovery and specifically the research piece. The real value is the time saved that it takes to research target companies, what type of technology they use, and finding engineers that do similar engineering to what we need.”

The impact of Juicebox extended beyond sourcing alone. Rich’s team used it as a full-stack discovery engine to research target companies and identify technical talent. 

“I really like the autopilot ranking, because to do that on your own is arduous and time consuming….Who actually has the 5 out of 5 criteria? Who’s got 4 out of 5? Who’s got 3 out of 5?”

These insights helped the team prioritize outreach and allocate time more effectively.

“It helps us make time allocation decisions by seeing what the supply and demand is like amongst the criteria of candidates that we want to see where we should spend more of our time.”

Results from a Smarter Sourcing Stack

With Juicebox, Anyscale elevated their sourcing strategy to match the pace and precision their growth demands.

• Unlocks the team’s high bar for talent on outbound, which now drives 45% of all hires

• Time spent sourcing top talent profiles reduced by over 50%

• Autopilot ranking and insights helped recruiters focus on 5/5-fit candidates

Juicebox became Anyscale’s go-to system for discovery, replacing hours of manual search, research, and ranking with one streamlined workflow.