Hire a Staff Engineer
The force multiplier your engineering team needs.
Staff engineers don't apply to jobs
- Retained recruiters.
- LinkedIn Recruiter seats.
- Keyword-matched resumes.
- Templated InMails.
Staff engineers are the senior technical leaders who set architecture direction, mentor other engineers, and make the decisions that compound over years. They're not applying on job boards, they're being courted through networks you probably don't have access to.
Traditional recruiters struggle here because they can't evaluate technical depth. They'll send you senior engineers who've been promoted by tenure, not by impact. The difference between a senior and a true staff engineer is the difference between someone who writes good code and someone who makes the whole team write better code.
At the startup stage, a staff engineer is often your most leveraged hire. They bring the technical judgment that prevents costly rewrites and the mentorship that levels up your junior engineers.
How Superposition finds your staff engineer
Signal over title
We look for impact, not job titles. Open source leadership, architectural blog posts, and real shipping history tell us more than a LinkedIn headline.
Technical taste in matching
Our voice intake captures the specific technical challenges you need help with, so we match on domain relevance, not just years of experience.
Reach passive candidates
Personalized outreach that references their actual work and explains the specific technical problems they'd get to solve.
Fast, flat-rate pricing
No percentage-of-salary fees. Get curated staff engineer candidates for $500/agent/month.
Questions.
Answered.
Scope and leverage. A senior engineer ships their own work well. A staff engineer changes what the whole team ships, usually through architecture, review standards or unblocking other people.
No, and candidates care about this. It is the senior individual contributor track. Advertising it as a stepping stone to management filters out the people you want.
You mostly cannot. The agent reads for evidence of leverage: design documents, systems they influenced, mentoring visible in public work, then asks your questions in the first exchange.
Below roughly fifteen engineers, usually not as a distinct level. What you probably need is a founding or senior engineer with unusual ownership.
Find your staff engineer.
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