For employers

Hire the government & defense talent your contracts need

Ayla helps government contractors, defense, national-security, and frontier-tech teams hire the strong technical people who can actually do the work. Every part of Ayla is built around public-sector hiring — federal, state, local, and the contractors who serve them — so you reach a high-intent, government-native audience and the demand-signal data behind every hire, instead of paying to be lost in a generic board.

Why teams hire on Ayla

A government-native audience

Ayla aggregates 250+ official sources into the single place public-sector and contractor candidates already trust — so your roles reach people actively searching for exactly what you're hiring for, not a generic board.

Hiring driven by live demand data

Ayla sees where hiring is hard across the whole government market — which roles sit open longest, which clearances are scarce, where pay lags. Every engagement starts from that signal instead of guesswork.

Cleared- and defense-ready

Clearance and work-eligibility are treated as a hard gate, so contractors and agencies never waste cycles on profiles that can't be placed — while the focus stays on strong technical people who can actually do the job.

Ways to work with us

Post jobs

Free pilot

Put your openings in front of a government-native audience.

  • Reach public-sector & contractor candidates
  • Featured placement and recurring feeds during the pilot
Join the posting pilot

Recruiting

Retained or pay-on-hire

Hand us the search — we source, screen, and place.

  • Eligibility-verified shortlist of the few worth your time
  • Market-calibrated offers that close
  • Days, not weeks — driven by live demand signal
See recruiting services

Market data

Subscription

License the live U.S. government labor-market graph.

  • Benchmarks, demand signals, and talent-density maps
  • Bulk data, API, or custom reports
See the data

Frequently asked questions

How do I hire government or defense talent on Ayla?
Agencies, contractors, and defense-tech companies can post roles to reach a government-focused audience, license the underlying market data, or hand the whole search to Ayla's recruiting team. Contact hello@aylagov.com to scope posting, data access, or a managed search.
Do you work with defense-tech and frontier startups?
Yes. Ayla places government-experienced and cleared technical talent for venture-backed defense, space, and dual-use companies scaling into the national-security space — founding engineers, program leads, and domain experts that generic recruiters miss.
Is Ayla an alternative to USAJobs for employers?
USAJobs is the federal government's official posting system for competitive-service roles. Ayla complements it: it aggregates federal, state, local, and contractor jobs into one place job seekers actually search, and gives employers reach, market data, and recruiting services that USAJobs does not.
Can you fill roles that require a security clearance?
Yes. When a role requires a clearance, Ayla treats it as a hard requirement and matches candidates whose clearance and eligibility fit — so contractors and agencies fill hard-to-fill cleared positions without wasting cycles on profiles that can't be placed.
How is Ayla different from Indeed or LinkedIn for government hiring?
Indeed and LinkedIn are horizontal. Ayla is government-native: 250+ official government and contractor sources, normalized salary and clearance data, and demand-signal intelligence specific to public-sector hiring. That focus means a more relevant audience and data generic boards can't match.

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