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Technical & deep-tech hiring guides
Hiring engineers, scientists and specialists when the product is the hard part.
8 guides in this topic
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- Technical & deep-tech hiring
Writing a technical hiring brief that gets results
What a recruiter actually needs to run a technical search: the problem, the stack, the bar, the constraints and the trade-offs you are willing to make.7 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
Hiring for deep tech and complex systems
Why deep-tech searches behave differently: small candidate pools, long assessment cycles, and briefs that need genuine technical understanding.7 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
Hiring for complex systems outside your own technical domain
How to assess specialists in a field you do not know: define the real problem, borrow credible assessors, and ask questions that work without deep expertise.8 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
Writing a hiring brief for a complex software or deep-tech role
How to brief a genuinely hard technical role: the system context, real must-haves, evidence of capability, and the trade-offs you are willing to make.8 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
How to hire for a role you cannot keyword-search
When no job title describes the role, search by problem instead: outcomes, evidence, adjacent fields and a transfer test agreed before the first CV arrives.8 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
Must-have versus learnable skills in early-stage technical hiring
How to split a requirements list into what must be true on day one and what can be learned after joining — and why that decision sets the size of your pool.7 min read · Reviewed 15 August 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
CTO or Head of Engineering: which does your startup need?
The two roles solve different problems. How to tell which one your startup needs now, and what changes about the search if you get it wrong.8 min read · Reviewed 6 September 2026 - Technical & deep-tech hiring
Hiring your first engineering manager
How to tell when a startup needs its first engineering manager, whether to promote or hire, and what evidence separates a real manager from a senior engineer.7 min read · Reviewed 6 September 2026
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Turn an early-stage requirement into a structured, shareable brief covering the role, the context, success measures and genuine technical must-haves.
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