Companies Beacon Devs has worked with
Engineering leadership and specialist roles don't get filled by posting a job. We build pipelines from scratch, sometimes hundreds of candidates deep, and test for real technical skill before anyone gets an offer.
AI and data roles moved from a nice-to-have to the hardest technical hire in the market, in about a year.
Up from 29% a year earlier. Most engineering leaders hiring today weren't screening for this two years ago.
Demand accelerated faster than the supply of engineers who can credibly do the work.
A genuinely new specialization, with almost no established candidate pool to source from yet.
There's a gap between who applies and who can do the work under real constraints.
They know the vocabulary and list the right tools, but stay vague the moment you ask about a specific system they actually built end to end.
People who can name the exact data source, the tradeoff they made, and the outcome, verified through direct technical evaluation and references from their own former managers.
Built for engineering leaders who don't have time to run a search themselves.
A pre-vetted engineer matched to your stack, stage, and the specific problem you're hiring to solve.
Each with a system they've actually shipped, not just tools they're familiar with.
Coding assessments, technical screens, and scheduling, so your engineering team stays focused on building.
Offer strategy grounded in real recent engineering placements, not a generic market survey.
Every engineering search we run is built to separate people who can talk about the work from people who've actually done it.
We push past the resume for the specific system a candidate shipped end to end, the tradeoffs, and the outcome, before they ever reach your team.
Multiple of our searches have covered healthcare AI and clinical data environments, where the technical bar and the compliance bar are both real.
Some searches need volume, some need one exact-fit candidate found fast. We run both, and we don't default to a wide, shallow funnel out of habit.
These are the searches we can document in full: the challenge, how we helped, and the outcome. We've run engineering searches beyond what's captured here too.
Read the case studies"It was all Dave and the Beacon team! Loved the process, incredible talent, it's 100X better than my previous experiences. Very happy to be your partner."
"As a hiring company ourselves, it was essential to work with a partner that could not only help us scale our recruiting efforts, but was aligned with us about the necessity of creating a tightly run process and a positive candidate experience."
"We had a critical CEO backfill for one of our recently acquired businesses in the marketing technology field. Dave and his team connected us with a level of talent we were not anticipating we'd be able to get interested in this opportunity. It was a great outcome for everyone!"
I love business building, from my first job building a search practice on Wall Street, to launching my first agency in 2009 to scaling and leading GTM teams at technology businesses like Hired.com, harri.com and porch.com.
I founded Beacon in 2018 not to create another recruitment agency, but as a vehicle to partner and build with ambitious founders and leaders.
Visionary leaders need builders who share their passion, care about their long-term success and are as invested in their business as they are.
Building and partnership are core to who we are and what we do. Exceptionalism, pride, craftsmanship, expertise, dedication, these are the traits we instill in our team, expect from our partners and seek on their behalf in the talent market.
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