7,434 candidates read. One forward deployed engineer.
Cadrian needed a forward deployed engineer. Superposition ran the search and closed it in 7 weeks.
Cadrian.Forward Deployed Engineer · the search by the numbers
- 7weeks, brief to hire
- 7,434candidates evaluated
- 18surfaced to the founder
- 6interviewed
- 1hired
The brief
The open seat was a forward deployed engineer, the kind of hire a small team cannot get wrong.
Instead of a job post or an agency retainer, the founders described the role to the agent in their own words and let it run outbound from day one.
What the agent did
It read 7,434 candidates against the brief, wrote to the ones who fit, and surfaced 18 for the founder's review, each already contacted and interested.
Scheduling, reminders and follow-ups ran inside the agent. The team spent its time in 6 interviews, not in an inbox.
The result
A Forward Deployed Engineer hired 7 weeks after the search started, in October 2025.
Every approval and pass along the way taught the agent what this team means by a good hire.
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