Specialist recruitment practice
Solutions Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering recruitment
Across AI, data and developer technology.
What we do
We recruit across Solutions Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering and the closely related roles that sit around them.
We work with a small number of selected clients rather than trying to partner with every company in the market. That matters because our ability to recruit well depends on having a broad market to headhunt from.
Our approach is candidate-led. We build relationships with strong people across the market, understand the teams they sit in and keep close to how those teams are changing.
Keeping the client base selective gives us room to recruit across the market rather than steadily closing off the companies we need to headhunt from. Depending on the brief, that might mean finding one key person, building several hires into a team or moving a group of people together when the opportunity is right.
The right hire is not always looking for their next role.
We know the market, where the strongest people sit and what might make the right person open to a conversation.
If you are hiring
We approach each search by mapping the part of the market most likely to contain the right people, rather than starting with a database and working backwards.
That means understanding the product, the team, the role and the companies most likely to have produced the right experience. We then map the relevant people and approach them directly.
Depending on the brief, that can mean one key hire, several hires into the same team, or a team move when there is a genuine opportunity to bring people across together.
Discuss a hireIf you work in this market
We spend our time getting to know strong Solutions Engineers, Forward Deployed Engineers and people in closely related roles across AI, data and developer technology.
Those relationships often start long before there is a role to discuss. Staying close to people over time means that when something genuinely relevant comes up, we can have a useful conversation with context rather than starting from scratch.
Have a conversationThe roles we recruit
Core roles
Our core roles include:
- Solutions Engineer
- Senior Solutions Engineer
- Principal Solutions Engineer
- Sales Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer
Closely related roles
We also recruit closely related roles where they sit within the same candidate market, including:
- Solutions Architect
- Customer Engineer
- Applied AI Engineer
- AI Deployment Engineer
- Technical Solutions Engineer
- Partner Solutions Engineer
Our niche
We work with companies building complex products across AI, data and developer technology.
That ranges from venture-backed scale-ups building dedicated Solutions Engineering or Forward Deployed Engineering teams, through to established technology platforms expanding specialist customer-facing technical capability.
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We also work selectively with AI security businesses and technology consultancies building AI engineering and deployment teams.
John is a breath of fresh air as a critical recruitment partner. He really takes the time to get to know the company, the culture and what makes a successful recruit. With John, I know the profiles I receive will be tailored to our specific needs, the person will understand the role, the company, and will be a fully engaged candidate. He works on quality, not numbers. He is a true partner to my whole team.
About TP Tech
TP Tech is a specialist recruitment practice focused on Solutions Engineering and Forward Deployed Engineering across AI, data and developer technology.
It was founded by John Huskinson, who has worked in specialist recruitment for more than 20 years.
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