Hire forward deployed engineers who ship inside your customers.
Brief us in Slack, connect GitHub and Linear, and our agents find and screen engineers who fit your stack. You only meet the shortlist.
Scroll to see it in actionFrom brief to shortlist, without leaving Slack.
Drop the role in a shared channel. Questions, feedback and updates all happen in the same thread, so there's no portal or intake form.
The best forward deployed engineers are already deployed somewhere. Generalist recruiters wait for applicants. We map the market and go to them.
How Hirelayer worksMost recruiters hire FDEs like any other engineer.
Roughly 3 in 10 roles labelled FDE are sales engineering in disguise.¹ Matching on job titles fills your pipeline with the wrong people.
How we tell a real FDE from a relabelled one.
Every candidate does a case interview built on a real deployment scenario: an unclear brief, messy data and a customer with opinions. We score the same four things, every time.
- Ships production codeWrites real software in your stack, not just demos.
- Scopes the unclearTurns a vague customer ask into a plan with clear trade-offs.
- Earns customer trustExplains technical choices to non-engineers and handles pushback.
- Works with autonomyMakes good calls on a customer site without a team around them.
Pay only when you hire.
No retainer and no upfront fee. You pay a placement fee only when a candidate we introduce accepts your offer.
Talk terms on a call- No upfront cost or retainer
- Fee charged only on a successful hire
- [X]-day replacement guarantee
- Global searches, one simple agreement
An engineer who works directly with your customers to deploy and adapt your product in their environment. They write production code like a software engineer and work face to face with customers like a consultant.
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