■ Every placement since 2011
Placements
Who we placed, where they went and how long it took. Four hundred and twelve senior hires; ninety-four percent still in role after two years.
Senior placements since 2011
Still in role after two years
Median days, brief to offer
Countries placed into
Index
■ Recent placements
Firm names are shared with our clients’ permission. Hover a row to see the team they joined.
2026
Inference & infrastructure
Head of Inference
Parallax Compute
Wasn’t looking. Moved for the serving roadmap, not the number.
61 days
2026
Quant & trading
Staff Quant Researcher
Stillwater Systematic
Second conversation was with the pod lead, not HR. That did it.
49 days
2025
AI & ML research
Founding Engineer
Halyard Robotics
Took a lower base for 1.6% and a lab bench of their own.
38 days
2025
Quant & trading
Head of Research Platform
Vellum Quant
Built the platform the researchers had been asking for since 2021.
57 days
2025
Leadership & team builds
VP Engineering
Orrery Labs
Doubled the team in eleven months; zero regretted attrition.
71 days
2025
AI & ML research
Principal ML Engineer
Northbeam AI
Left a frontier lab for a smaller one with a clearer shot at shipping.
44 days
2024
Quant & trading
Execution Lead
Kiln Street Capital
Cut slippage by a third in year one. Still sends us referrals.
52 days
2024
Leadership & team builds
Research Director
Tessel Research
A professor who had never taken a recruiter’s call. Took ours twice.
88 days
AI & ML research
118 placements
Research scientists and engineers into frontier labs, applied AI teams and the funds now hiring from both.
Inference & infrastructure
96 placements
Serving, GPU performance and data platforms. Most came from hyperscalers; most wanted to own something.
Quant & trading
131 placements
Signal researchers, low-latency engineers and execution leads into systematic funds and market makers.
Leadership & team builds
67 placements
Heads of engineering and research, and the first ten hires of a new desk or lab.
■ VP People, developer-tools company
“Nine weeks from brief to signed offer, for a role we had failed to fill for a year.”
■ The guarantee
If a hire leaves in the first year, we search again for free.
Our fee is a third of first-year cash, paid in three stages: on brief, on shortlist and on start. We have re-run a search under the guarantee four times since 2011.