Permanent recruitment for deep-tech teams.
Full-time, direct-hire placement across AI, Energy, Semiconductor, and adjacent engineering markets.
Permanent recruitment is the sourcing, vetting, and placement of full-time employees who join your payroll directly. Mindpool USA runs permanent searches end-to-end for U.S. deep-tech employers — brief intake, targeted and specialised sourcing, sector-specialist screening, references, and offer management — with a 90-day retention guarantee on every hire.
What permanent recruitment covers
A permanent search is scoped to one outcome: a full-time employee who stays. We start from the hiring plan rather than the job description, map the market for the specific competencies that determine success in the role, and only shortlist candidates who have been screened by a recruiter who works that sector daily.
- Brief intake and market calibration before sourcing begins
- Targeted, specialised sourcing across the whole addressable market — not just our bench
- Sector-specialist technical screening and reference checks
- Offer strategy, compensation benchmarking, and close management
- 90-day retention guarantee on every permanent placement
Who we do it for
AI labs and applied-ML teams, fabless and IDM semiconductor companies, utilities and clean-power developers, data-centre operators, robotics and advanced-manufacturing programmes, and defence-adjacent hardware teams. Coverage is nationwide, with concentrated depth in the Bay Area, Austin, Phoenix, Boston, Seattle, Hillsboro, and Albany.
How permanent differs from what we don't do
Mindpool USA does not offer contract, temp-to-hire, or contingent workforce staffing. Every engagement ends in a direct-hire employee on your payroll. That focus is deliberate: retention economics, screening depth, and offer strategy all work differently when the placement is permanent.
Frequently asked
What is permanent recruitment?
Permanent recruitment is the process of finding and placing a full-time employee who joins the employer's payroll directly, with no intermediary employment relationship. Mindpool USA delivers this end-to-end for U.S. deep-tech employers.
How long does a permanent search take?
Most Mindpool USA permanent searches produce a shortlist within days and reach a signed offer in roughly 21 days on average. Highly specialised principal and leadership roles can run longer.
Do you offer contract or temporary staffing?
No. Mindpool USA is a permanent executive and professional search firm. We place full-time, direct-hire employees only — we do not provide contract, temp-to-hire, or contingent staffing.
What happens if a hire doesn't work out?
Every permanent placement carries a 90-day retention guarantee. If the hire leaves inside that window, we run the replacement search at no additional fee.
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.