This search was one of nine inside a single six-month embedded recruiting engagement with a pre-IPO defense technology company building radar systems for force protection and airspace security missions. See the full engagement: They Had More Contracted Work Than Their Team Could Execute.
Part of the nine-role embedded engagement covering the client’s EE and RF division over six months.
Why the Search Was Difficult
Analog and mixed-signal engineering is a narrower specialty than digital or RF design, and most qualified candidates were already deep inside long-tenured roles.
Sourcing the discipline twice, at two seniority levels, inside one engagement window raised the degree of difficulty.
How ALAC Ran the Search
ALAC ran both searches against the same talent map at the same time rather than sequentially, comparing candidates across both roles at once.
Structured candidate briefs made the seniority distinction clear to the hiring manager before either candidate reached an interview.
Result
Principal and Senior Analog and Mixed-Signal roles filled, each in under 45 days.
Business Impact
Closed a two-person gap in one of the platform’s scarcest technical disciplines without stretching the timeline past the other seven roles running in parallel.
9 roles
Filled across the embedded engagement
6 months
Engagement duration
Under 45 days
Every placement completed
100%
Submitted candidates advanced to interview
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