Backstory
Great engineering talent exists everywhere. But great hires do not happen by accident.
RunTime was founded by Lance Harvie, an embedded engineer who moved into specialist technical recruitment and has spent more than 28 years working with companies hiring embedded, firmware, FPGA and electronics engineers.
The business grew from a simple observation.
Most engineering recruitment does not fail because there are no candidates.
It fails because too much of the process is driven by job titles, keywords and CV matching without enough understanding of the engineering behind the role.
RunTime was built around a different approach.
We start with the system, the product and the technical problem.
What is being built?
Where does this engineer sit in the architecture?
What do they need to own?
What do they genuinely need to know on day one?
Only then do we define the search.
When we assess candidates, we look beyond the CV.
We want to understand what they actually built, what they personally owned, what broke, how they debugged it and how much of the system they really understood.
And when the brief does not make sense, we say so.
The scope may be too broad.
The salary may not match the market.
The seniority may be wrong.
Or the business may not need the hire it originally thought it did.
That is the thinking RunTime was built around.
Engineering judgment first.
Recruitment second.