Research

The science behind the hire.

Our research team investigates AI-powered recruiting, talent acquisition, agent systems, and the future of work, from domain-adapted retrieval models to lifecycle reviews of the field.

System Report · July 2026

Mira: The First End-to-End AI Recruiter

The Metix AI Team

How Mira is designed from the ground up: five specialized sub-agents, a talent graph of over one billion public profiles, and two in-house fine-tuned models that turn hiring intent into scheduled interviews.

A recruiting-native embedding model lifted our primary business metric over 40% and cut operational cost per qualified, interested candidate more than 90% versus a general-purpose baseline.
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Engineering Note · July 2026

Agent Evaluation, Done Right

Zhilin Wang

Why the durability of a production agent depends on its evaluation system: research-style testing, layered scoring, golden sets, calibrated judges, and evaluation wired into CI.

Bug-free code and correct agent behavior are two separate claims; what keeps a production agent standing is the evaluation system behind it.
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Engineering Note · June 2026

Performance Drift in Agent Systems

Zhilin Wang

A structural look at why production agent systems drift across the prompt, architecture, evaluation, and context layers, even when the spec and business goal stay fixed.

Agent drift is structural, not incidental: teams need prompt versioning, layered evaluation, golden sets, observability, context engineering, and deterministic fallbacks.
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arXiv Preprint · April 2026

Mira-Embeddings-V1: Domain-Adapted Semantic Reranking for Recruitment via LLM-Synthesized Data

Zhaohua Liang, Zhilin Wang, Renjie Cao, Yining Zhang

A recruitment-domain semantic reranking system that uses LLM-synthesized supervision and boundary-aware reranking to improve candidate retrieval recall.

Recall@50 improved from 68.89% to 77.55% on a local pool built from 300 real job descriptions.
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OpenJobs AI Review Paper · March 2026

When AI Meets Recruiting: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions

Yining Zhang, Renjie Cao, Zhilin Wang

A lifecycle-oriented review of AI recruiting systems, covering semantic matching, generative AI, multimodal assessment, bias, explainability, and human oversight.

Recruitment AI is moving from isolated prediction tasks toward lifecycle-oriented, generative workflows.
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