About Top Candidates
A specialist AI recruitment practice, led by Mike Leembruggen, built to hire AI talent and land AI roles across Australia.
Focused on AI recruitment
Top Candidates began as a career support platform for Australian candidates, built by Mike after years on both sides of hiring in tech, marketing, sales and recruitment. That original work — resume reviews, coaching and application tools — is still on this site, and the previous pages are kept under general career services.
The practice now specialises in AI recruitment. We help employers hire people into AI roles, and we help professionals who want that work. Australian organisations are hiring for AI engineering, architecture, automation, data science, implementation and governance — 266 live AI roles, 147 employers hiring, and median advertised salaries of $140,000–$170,000.
We stay close to that market every week, so the advice, the search and the introductions stay current. See the figures on the AI job market page.
Mike Leembruggen
Recruiter and founder of Top Candidates. Based in Australia, working with employers and candidates around the country.
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