Hire the experts who build what's next.
Mindpool USA places pre-vetted, U.S.-based specialists in AI, Energy, and Semiconductors into permanent, direct-hire roles — sourced, screened, and shortlisted by domain experts in days.
From brief to bench, in a week.
A managed, four-step workflow that turns a hiring brief into shortlisted, vetted, direct-hire candidates — without the back-and-forth.
- Step 01Brief
Send the role, stack, stage, and constraints. We translate it into a sourcing spec.
- Step 02Source
We pull from the vetted network and run targeted, specialised sourcing for the gaps.
- Step 03Shortlist
Your first curated shortlist inside 5 working days.
- Step 04Hire
Direct hire, handled end-to-end. We manage offers, references, and onboarding paperwork.
A workforce engine built for deep tech
From the first call to a curated shortlist of 5 — typically inside one business week.
Every candidate cleared by expert practitioners in your sector. No keyword roulette.
Every candidate ships with a transparent fit score: specialty, stack, stage, clearance, location.
Direct-hire placements — founding hires through senior leadership, sourced from the same vetted bench.
Every search is tailored to your technology stack, engineering domain, and hiring objectives, not generic job descriptions.
No resume dumps. We present a focused shortlist of candidates who genuinely fit your technical and business requirements.
Tell us what you're building.
Send a short brief and we'll come back with a sourcing plan, comp guidance, and a first shortlist target inside 48 hours.
How a Mindpool USA search runs
Every engagement starts with a briefing call in which we pull apart the role rather than the job title: the problems the hire owns in their first two quarters, the systems and tooling they inherit, who they work alongside, and which parts of the specification are genuinely non-negotiable. That brief becomes the scorecard we screen against for this search, so shortlists are argued for on evidence instead of keyword overlap.
Sourcing is deliberately two-track. We approach specialists already known to our sector recruiters, and we run targeted, specialised outreach into the specific teams, programmes, and technologies where the relevant experience actually sits — including people who are not searching. Candidates are then interviewed by a recruiter who understands the domain, reference-checked on the claims that matter, and presented with a written rationale, compensation expectations, notice period, and location constraints already confirmed.
Permanent hiring only — what that means
Mindpool USA is a permanent recruitment and executive search firm. Every placement is a full-time, direct-hire employee on your payroll, on your benefits, and inside your engineering culture. We do not provide contract, temporary, temp-to-hire, or contingent staffing, and we do not act as an employer of record. That single focus is why our process optimises for retention rather than time-to-fill alone.
- • Contingent permanent search, retained executive search, embedded RPO, or research-led talent mapping
- • Sector-specialist recruiters in AI and machine learning, energy, and semiconductors
- • Roughly 21 days from brief to a signed offer on a typical search
- • 90-day retention guarantee on every permanent placement
- • U.S. nationwide coverage, with a secondary UK practice
Hiring managers can book a call or email a hiring brief and receive a calibrated shortlist with market context on availability and compensation before committing to a full search.