We represent senior and staff engineers in high-stakes career moves. We audit real compensation bands, pitch your profile directly to engineering leaders, and handle multi-offer negotiations. Zero candidate fees, zero ATS applications.
Over 400 placements audited across Tier-1 AI labs, quantitative trading firms, and growth-stage tech companies.
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How our advisory team manages your career move from initial calibration to final contract signature.
We audit your current level and walk-away numbers against live verified peer comp data, identifying your realistic P75/P90 ceiling before any outreach begins.
We craft a private talent brief and pitch your background directly to engineering leaders and founders over Signal, unlocking unlisted headcount without a public footprint.
When offers materialize, we orchestrate competing deadlines to create natural bidding pressure, pushing base salaries, sign-on bonuses, and equity grants to the true band maximum.
We execute a legal review of the employment agreement, verifying 4-year vesting mechanics, acceleration triggers, post-termination exercise windows, and clean IP carve-outs.
Hear directly from represented engineers about their negotiation outcomes and career transitions.
Unfiltered market benchmarks, compensation bands, and executive career intelligence.
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How private representation works, how our fees are structured, and how we protect senior candidates.
Our services are completely free for the engineers we represent. We charge the hiring companies a commission when they make a successful hire.
We maintain absolute confidentiality. We never post your profile publicly or put your details in generic databases. We pitch you to hiring executives anonymously, and only reveal your identity when both sides are interested.
We represent senior engineers, leads, tech managers, and architects with 5+ years of experience in highly competitive spaces (e.g. Distributed Systems, ML Platforms, Trading Infrastructure).
We review your equity vesting schedules, non-competes, and IP clauses to ensure you keep ownership of any work you do on your own time.
Whether you have an active offer in hand or are quietly exploring your next chapter, we can audit your compensation ceiling in 15 minutes.