Elite cyber & AI security talent in Australia.
Critical AI recruits cyber security and AI security specialists across Australia. AI searches the market. Practitioners vet the shortlist. A person makes every hiring decision.
01 HUNT
Hunted
by AI.
The Hive, our AI talent engine, scans the Australian security market for the skills, frameworks and clearances your brief needs, including people who aren't looking.
ILLUSTRATIVE DEMO
02 VET
Vetted by
AI & experts.
Every candidate completes a Critical Hive AI interview, then a practitioner who has done the role reviews the evidence. AI assists. A person decides.
- Critical Hive AI interview✓ DONE
- Frameworks · ATLAS / LLM Top 10✓ PASS
- Clearance eligibility✓ NV1
- Identity & integrity checks✓ CLEAR
03 PLACE
Placed with
precision.
We use Critical Hive to staff these roles ourselves. Run the same AI interviews on your own candidates — AI assists, your team decides.
FLUENT IN
01 What we do
Security talent and the AI to find it.
Two specialist recruitment practices and one AI interview platform, built by people who work in security.
Cyber Security Specialists
Defenders, hunters, testers and leaders, from SOC analysts to CISOs. Cleared and uncleared, permanent and contract, across Australia.
Vetted by practitioners who've done the roleAI Security Specialists
A new discipline that very few people truly have. We know where they are: the people who break, secure and govern AI systems.
Vetted by practitioners who've done the role
// CANBERRACleared roles
Baseline, NV1, NV2 and PV talent for Defence and Government.
// PRODUCTCritical Hive
AI interviews with integrity signals, for agencies and employers.
// ADVISORYAI security advisory
AI red teaming, ISO 42001 governance and secure AI design.
// CANDIDATESJoin the Hive
Get matched to security roles, often before they're advertised.
SCREENED IN THE HIVE
02 Critical Hive
AI interviews you can actually trust.
Critical Hive is an AI interview platform for Australian companies and recruitment agencies. Paste a job description and it drafts a structured interview. You get a ranked shortlist with evidence, plus integrity signals for a person to review. AI assists. A person makes every decision.
- Your own workspace: invite candidates, track progress, compare results
- Adaptive follow-up questions and evidence-based scoring
- Live AI-vision proctoring, no video stored, plus cheating signals a human reviews
- Built for Australian privacy law, with a person making every decision
Critical HiveDashboardShortlistsInvitationsRolesAnalyticsSettingsAI Red Team Lead 12 INVITED · 9 DONE
ILLUSTRATIVE DATA
03 How we recruit
AI works the search. Experts judge the fit.
Brief
We turn your role into a precise profile: skills, frameworks, clearance, team and culture.
Hunt
Our AI maps the Australian security market, including passive candidates who aren't applying anywhere.
Vet
A structured AI interview, then a technical screen with a practitioner. Identity and integrity checks throughout.
Place
A short, ranked shortlist with honest notes. We stay close through offer, clearance and onboarding.
04 Why Critical AI
Built like the people we place.
Security-only
We don't recruit developers on Monday and accountants on Tuesday. Security is all we do.
Practitioner-vetted
Technical screens are run by people who've held the role, not by a keyword filter.
Clearance-aware
We work with Baseline, NV1, NV2 and PV processes for Defence, Government and critical infrastructure.
Human decisions
AI speeds up the search. A person makes every hiring recommendation, and we explain how.
05 Insights
Hiring security people in the age of AI.
How to hire an AI security specialist in Australia
The skills that matter, the frameworks to test for, and how to interview for them.
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TRUSTHow we use AI in recruitment
Plain-language transparency on AI, human decisions and your data.
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