# I Built a Job Search Agent That Scores 200 Jobs With Local AI -- Zero Cloud, Zero Cost

> Source: <https://dev.to/anirudh_shivam/i-built-a-job-search-agent-that-scores-200-jobs-with-local-ai-zero-cloud-zero-cost-21lk>
> Published: 2026-07-27 02:36:02+00:00

Job searching is tab hell.

You open LinkedIn, Indeed, RemoteOK, Glassdoor. You re-read the same listings. You copy-paste the same cover letter. You pay $30/month for tools that just aggregate feeds and call it "AI-powered."

I wanted something better. So I built JobRadar.

JobRadar is a CLI tool that searches 8 job sources concurrently and scores every listing against your profile using a local LLM running on your machine.

```
python -m jobradar -q "python developer" -p profile.yaml
```

That's it. Eight boards searched in parallel. Every job scored 0-100. Results saved to CSV. Total time: under a minute.

Every other job search tool I found uses cloud APIs for scoring -- OpenAI, Claude, whatever. Which means your resume, your search history, your career preferences all go to someone else's server. And you pay per token.

JobRadar runs qwen3-1.7b (1.1 GB) on your CPU via Ollama. No API keys. No subscriptions. No data leaving your machine. The AI scores each job on four dimensions:

Each job gets a score, a rating (Excellent/Good/Fair/Poor), and a reasoning paragraph explaining why.

Most job search tools scrape 1-2 boards. JobRadar hits 8 simultaneously:

The Greenhouse and Ashby sources pull directly from company career page APIs. No scraping, no auth, no fragility.

You define a profile YAML:

```
name: Anirudh
title: Backend Engineer
skills:
- Python
- FastAPI
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
experience_years: 5
salary_min: 120000
remote_ok: true
```

JobRadar sends each job description plus your profile to the local LLM and gets back structured JSON with scores and reasoning. The model runs on your CPU -- no GPU required. On my machine (15GB RAM, no GPU), it processes about 9 seconds per job.

| Feature | JobRadar | Cloud-based tools |
|---|---|---|
| AI scoring | Local LLM (free) | OpenAI API ($$) |
| Data privacy | Stays on your machine | Sent to cloud |
| Job sources | 8 concurrent | 1-3 |
| Web dashboard | Yes (Kanban) | Depends |
| License | MIT | Varies |
| Setup time | `bash setup.sh` |
Account + API key |

Beyond the CLI, there's a FastAPI dashboard with a Kanban-style pipeline to track your applications. Filters, search, config editor -- all running locally on port 3000.

```
git clone github.com/ANIRudH-lab-life/job-radar
cd job-radar
bash setup.sh # or setup.ps1 on Windows

# Pick Ollama (recommended)
python -m jobradar -q "python developer" -p profile.yaml
```

MIT licensed. No vendor lock-in. Your data stays yours.

GitHub: github.com/ANIRudH-lab-life/job-radar

If you find it useful, a star would mean a lot. If you have ideas for improvement, open an issue -- I read every one.