Find the companies hiring engineers in your market
An open req is a budget decision that already happened. Canonical turns what a company is hiring for into a searchable filter, so you find the teams investing in an area before anyone announces it.
A job posting is one of the few things a private company publishes about its own plans. A team opening four backend roles in Bengaluru has decided something about the next two quarters, and it has decided it before the press release, the conference talk or the case study.
Canonical reads company job boards weekly and lets you filter on them: which function a company is hiring for, in which city, at which level. Coverage is roughly 20,000 companies, so a hiring filter narrows results sharply on purpose. It is a signal about intent, not a census of employers.
The problem
Job boards are organised around the role, not the company. You can find a thousand backend postings and still not answer the question you actually have, which is which companies are staffing up in a specific function and place. Aggregators also index the same large employers repeatedly, so the long tail of mid-size teams doing the most interesting hiring never surfaces.
How Canonical solves it
Search Canonical for companies by their open roles the way you would search by headcount or funding. Combine hiring with the rest of the graph: engineering roles in Bengaluru at companies under 200 people, or leadership hiring at Series B companies in a sector you care about. You get verified companies keyed by domain, not a list of postings to de-duplicate.
How it works
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Describe who you want in plain English
Ask for companies hiring SDEs in Gurugram, or companies hiring engineering managers, and Canonical maps the role words onto the functions and seniority levels it tracks.
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Combine hiring with everything else
Layer headcount, funding stage, headquarters and sector on top. Hiring location and headquarters are separate filters, so a US-based company hiring in India matches both.
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Run it on a schedule
Connect the MCP server and re-run the search weekly. The posting data refreshes weekly, so a recurring search shows you who started hiring since last time.
Run these signals
Each one opens Canonical with the hiring filters already set — nothing to retype.
- Hiring engineers in Bengaluru Companies with an open engineering role in Bengaluru right now. Aliases resolve, so Bangalore finds the same companies.
- Hiring engineering leadership Open engineering roles at manager level and above -- a team about to grow, not just backfill.
- Hiring data and ML people Open Data_Science_AI_ML roles: who is actually staffing an AI effort rather than announcing one.
Example searches
Typed in plain language instead of filters — the interpreter turns each into the same criteria.
- “companies hiring SDEs in Gurugram”
- “companies hiring engineering managers in Bengaluru with under 200 employees”
- “Series B companies with open roles for data engineers”
Connect the Canonical MCP
Add Canonical to ChatGPT, Claude, or any MCP-compatible assistant and run this search, or schedule it, right in the chat. OAuth handles sign-in, and there are no API keys to manage.
Frequently asked questions
Where does the hiring data come from?
A weekly scrape of company job boards, rolled up per company: which functions have open roles, in which cities and countries, and at which seniority. Postings are matched to a company through its primary domain.
How many companies have hiring data?
Roughly 20,000. That is a small slice of the graph, so any hiring filter narrows results sharply. A company with no posting data is not necessarily not hiring — it may simply not run a job board we read.
Is the hiring location the same as the headquarters?
No, and they are separate filters. A company headquartered in San Francisco hiring engineers in Bengaluru matches a hiring-in-Bengaluru search and a based-in-San-Francisco search at the same time. Both are true.
Can I search for a specific job title?
Not a title, a function. Roles are grouped into a fixed set of functions such as Engineering, Sales and Operations, plus a seniority split between leadership and individual contributor. Ask for SDEs or engineering managers and Canonical maps the words onto those groups.