Lance Harvie is an engineer-turned recruiter and the founder of RunTime Recruitment, specialising in embedded systems, electronics, firmware, and safety-critical hiring across Australia and Asia.
What Lance does
Lance has worked across embedded systems, electronics, firmware, and system-level engineering recruitment, supporting teams in automotive, industrial, medical, and defence-adjacent environments.
Lance works with founders and engineering leaders building real products. His focus is on hiring engineers operating close to hardware, real-time constraints, and complex systems where execution risk is high.
Speaking and community
Lance publishes practical content on embedded reliability, hiring signals, and engineering execution risk. His work is followed by more than 26,000 engineers and engineering leaders worldwide.