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Systems

Embedded platforms, robotics, control systems, and edge compute.

Deployments

Field rollouts, hardware validation, integration & scale.

Reliability

Engineers who build for uptime, signal integrity, and real-world results.

HARDWARE BLUEPRINT

Hardware Recruiting System

Different work requires different searches. This is how each lane runs — who it’s for, what we screen for, and the exact roles we introduce so you get signal fast without wasting cycles.

Engineering Leaders
This lane is built for engineering leaders responsible for delivering real hardware products:
  • VPs of Engineering
  • Directors of Engineering
  • Engineering Managers
  • Technical leaders building hardware teams
Roles in Scope
Typical searches include:
  • Mechanical Engineers
  • Electrical Engineers
  • Firmware Engineers
  • Systems Engineers
  • Hardware Validation & Test Engineers
What You Hand Off
You bring:
  • The hardware program you're building.
  • Constraints: schedule, manufacturing, reliability, and cost.
  • Where the bottlenecks are today.
  • What success looks like after the hire.
Signals We Screen For
We prioritize:
  • Products shipped into production.
  • Design ownership.
  • Testing and validation experience.
  • Cross-functional communication with manufacturing and firmware.
How The Search Runs
A typical engagement looks like:
  • Day 0–2 – intake, calibration, market map, first lanes opened.
  • Week 1 – first calibrated shortlist, fast feedback loop.
  • Week 2–4 – steady flow, interviews, offers, close support.
What Hits Your Calendar
Instead of random resumes, you get:
  • Shortlists of 3–6 hardware candidates with strong technical fit.
  • Clear notes on ownership, shipped products, and constraints handled.
  • Scheduling support with minimal back-and-forth.
When A Search Is Stuck
If the profile is rare, you won’t just hear “it’s hard.” You’ll see:
  • What the market is actually saying about scope, level, and comp.
  • Where candidates drop in the funnel and why.
  • Concrete levers: scope, title, location, comp, or interview loop.
How You Get Results Fast
This lane is built for speed without lowering the bar:
  • Signal-based screening: ownership plus shipped hardware reality.
  • Strong calibration early so the shortlist stays clean.
  • High-quality flow so you interview less and decide faster.
ENGINEERS
This lane is for hardware people who actually build things:
  • Mechanical, electrical, firmware, and systems engineers.
  • Hardware test, validation, and reliability engineers.
  • Field, lab, and production technicians.
  • People who care about shipped product, not just titles.
If your work shows up in a lab, on a line, or in the field, this is your lane.
TEAMS WE INTRODUCE YOU TO
Most intros are to teams that:
  • Ship real hardware – not endless prototypes.
  • Pair hardware with strong firmware, ops, and manufacturing.
  • Have a clear roadmap and know why they’re hiring.
  • Value engineers who solve problems, not just close tickets.
The point is simple: fewer “mystery roles”, more teams that fit how you work.
WHAT WE ACTUALLY LOOK AT
We care more about signal than buzzwords:
  • What you’ve shipped and what broke along the way.
  • Where you owned a system vs. just “supported the team”.
  • How you debug, test, and make trade-offs under constraints.
  • How you work with firmware, manufacturing, and field teams.
A clean story beats a perfect resume every time.
HOW INTROS WORK
The flow is straightforward:
  1. We talk about what you’ve built and what you want next.
  2. We match that to teams that are actually hiring, not “maybe later”.
  3. You see a short list of roles with honest pros/cons, not hype.
You decide what’s worth moving forward on. No pressure, no spam blasts.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US
When we work together, you get:
  • Clear context on the team, roadmap, and why the role exists.
  • Honest takes on comp, level, and how “senior” really works there.
  • Interview prep that speaks in schematics and test plans, not scripts.
We’d rather lose a role than sell you something that doesn’t fit.
PROCESS & FEEDBACK
No disappearing acts. During a loop, you’ll see:
  • Where you are in the process and who you’re meeting next.
  • What the team is reacting to – good and bad.
  • Concrete ways to calibrate: scope, level, and timeline.
The goal is simple: no guessing, no “just checking in” emails.
IF YOU’RE JUST EXPLORING
Not ready to move yet? That’s fine. We can:
  • Sanity-check your comp and level against the current market.
  • Talk through what roles actually look like at EV, robotics, or OEM teams.
  • Flag lanes that are worth watching for the next 6–12 months.
You don’t need an active resume to have a real conversation.
HOW TO GET ON OUR RADAR
If this sounds like your lane:
  • Share one or two projects you’re proud of and what you owned.
  • Mention the tools / stacks you actually use day-to-day.
  • Tell us what you never want to do again and what you want more of.
That’s enough for us to know where you fit and when to reach out.
Real Motion. Tight Tolerances.

Robotics Engineering

This lane is for teams building robotic systems that can’t rely on simulation alone. Motion control, actuation, sensing, perception, and safety — operating under real-world latency, precision, and reliability constraints. We focus on senior robotics and automation engineers who’ve shipped hardware, closed control loops, debugged edge cases, and carried systems from bring-up to production.

Controls + Motion Embedded + Real-Time Perception + Sensing Systems Integration Reliability + Validation
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Controls & Motion

Stability, tuning, constraints, timing — the part that makes robots behave.
PID / State-Space Trajectories Edge-Case Debug
  • Control loop design (PID / state-space), tuning, saturation, noise handling
  • Trajectory generation, constraints, jerk/accel limits, real-time execution
  • Commissioning + calibration workflows that don’t collapse at scale
  • Debugging oscillations, drift, instability, and edge-case failures
Explore Controls & Motion →
02

Embedded & Real-Time Systems

Determinism, comms, safety edges — the “timing is everything” lane.
RTOS / Bare Metal CAN / EtherCAT Latency Budgets
  • Scheduling, interrupts, timing, and real-world jitter control
  • Robust comms in noisy environments (CAN / EtherCAT / SPI / I2C / UART)
  • Bring-up + debugging: logic analyzers, scopes, HW/FW boundary
  • Fault handling, watchdogs, safe-state behavior, recovery strategies
Explore Embedded & Real-Time →
03

Perception & Sensing

Sensors, calibration, noise, and failure modes — where “pretty demos” become real systems.
Cameras / Depth IMU / Encoders Calibration
  • Sensor integration, timing alignment, sync, drift + tolerance reality
  • Calibration pipelines that survive production variance
  • Noise handling + filtering + diagnostics (not “it looked fine once”)
  • Failure detection: dropouts, saturation, misalignment, environmental edge cases
Explore Perception & Sensing →
04

Systems Integration

Sensors + actuators + compute + reality — where most robotics programs win or fail.
Bring-up Field Debug Root Cause
  • End-to-end ownership across mech / EE / firmware / controls
  • Integration regressions + test strategy (not just unit tests)
  • Logging + repro strategy + disciplined triage under pressure
  • Production constraints: variance, tolerance stackups, serviceability
Explore Systems Integration →
05

Reliability, Validation & Production Reality

Failure modes, test coverage, ramp, serviceability — the overlooked layer that ships.
HALT / HASS Acceptance Test Safe-State
  • Reliability engineering + failure analysis loops (not vibes)
  • Validation plans that reflect real usage, not ideal lab conditions
  • Manufacturing ramp support, fixtures, acceptance criteria
  • Safety mindset: fault containment, safe-state behavior, risk-driven testing
Explore Reliability & Validation →
High Voltage. Real Constraints.

EV & Mobility Lane

This lane is for teams building systems that can’t “ship now, fix later.” Power electronics, battery safety, motor drives, HV architecture, integration, validation, production reality — and the senior engineers who have lived it.

HV / Power Electronics Battery + Safety Motor Drives Integration + Validation Production Ramp
INSIDE THIS LANE
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RULE: We don't hire keywords. We hire engineers who’ve owned high-voltage reality end-to-end.
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Power Electronics & HV Architecture

In EV, “works in the lab” doesn’t count. We screen for engineers who can design, validate, and support systems through production and field reality.

Signals We Screen For
  • Architecture, validation, and production support ownership.
  • Protection strategy: sensing, derating, shutdown behavior.
  • Layout, grounding, EMI/EMC, and thermal margin reality.
Failure Patterns
  • EMI shows up late and forces compromises.
  • Thermal risk is underestimated in edge cases.
  • Supplier variance breaks the perfect lab build.
02

Battery & Safety Systems

Battery engineering is safety engineering. We filter for people who understand abuse cases, sensing drift, pack variation, BMS behavior, and production scaling.

Senior Signals
  • Thermal, electrical, mechanical, and contamination failure cases.
  • BMS edge cases: drift, balancing, false trips, degradation.
  • Pack-level risk, not just cell-level theory.
Screening Focus
  • Root cause discipline.
  • Detection, mitigation, and graceful degradation.
  • Validation plans that catch field failure modes.
03

Integration & Validation

This is where projects survive. We look for engineers who turn chaos into stable systems through instrumentation, test strategy, failure triage, and production-grade fixes.

The Work
  • Bring-up and instrumentation: what to measure, where, and why.
  • Failure triage under time pressure.
  • Test coverage that matches field reality.
  • EMI/EMC iteration without blowing schedules.
04

Profiles We Run

Core EV / HV
  • Power Electronics Engineers
  • HV Systems / Architecture Engineers
  • Motor Drives / Controls Engineers
  • EMI/EMC Engineers
Battery + Validation
  • BMS Engineers
  • Battery Systems Engineers
  • Validation / Reliability Engineers
  • Integration / Test Engineers
05

Client Lane

Who This Is For

CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Directors of EE/Power, and technical founders who need senior EV talent that can survive production constraints — not just design on paper.

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Candidate Lane

For Engineers In This Lane

If you’ve owned HV design choices, lived validation failures, or carried production support, this lane is built around scope clarity, real ownership, and interview loops that respect experience.

  • Teams shipping real vehicles and systems.
  • Clear ownership boundaries.
  • Interview loops built around constraints, trade-offs, and failure modes.



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