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Single-role search · Power and microgrids
PowerTec
A family-owned Australian maker of power and microgrid technology.
The brief
Find a Principal Software Engineer to re-architect a safety-critical product stack: PLC controls, embedded firmware, cloud algorithms and a Raspberry Pi interface, running in large electricity networks. Ads and the CEO's own network had come up empty.
Role
- Principal Software Engineer / Product Architect
The approach
With the CEO, we built a list of about 70 target companies and approached more than 300 people. Three and a half weeks in, a candidate who said no referred a former colleague whose start-up had just missed funding. Perfect match. The client stretched the budget to get him.
- People approached
- 300+
- To find the hire
- 3.5 weeks
“We knew this was going to be a difficult find. In under a month he found us the unicorn we were looking for. The candidate has worked out very well, exceeding our expectations, and continues to have a major impact on our product and customer success.”