CareerPlan specialises in sourcing exceptional Data Scientists and C++ engineers for trading firms, blockchain protocols and game studios. Original thinkers. Deep practitioners. Not just available.
All three demand the same rare combination: mathematical depth, performance engineering, and the intellectual honesty to know when a model breaks.
Prop desks, hedge funds and market makers need engineers who understand both the maths and the machine. Latency budgets measured in nanoseconds. Models that live or die on execution quality.
Protocol teams and DeFi labs need engineers who can reason about distributed systems, cryptographic primitives and economic incentive design simultaneously. Rare combinations.
AAA studios and real-time simulation teams need C++ engineers who care about the craft — not just features shipped. Physics, rendering, netcode, AI. Performance is the product.
We look for engineers with a demonstrable body of work — open-source contributions, research publications, measurable impact — not just a list of job titles.
Deep statistical modelling background, comfortable working with raw noisy data and translating findings into production systems. Often PhD-educated or equivalent depth through research.
Knows the cache hierarchy as well as the algorithm. Writes code that runs fast on real hardware, not just on paper. Has shipped something that other engineers study.
Bridges research and production. Can generate and test hypotheses against market data, understands overfitting, and won't oversell a Sharpe ratio. Rare and in permanent demand.
Thinks in invariants, not features. Understands consensus, P2P networking and cryptographic primitives from first principles. Can implement, not just describe.
We combine the reach of a technical AI sourcing platform with the judgment of a recruiter who understands what you're actually building.
We spend time understanding your architecture, team culture and the specific problem this hire needs to solve — not just the job title.
Our platform searches 818k+ engineer profiles by what they've actually built — open-source work, research, production systems — not keywords on a résumé.
We read the work. Every candidate we present has been assessed against your brief — background, depth, trajectory. No CV spray.
We reach out personally, explain the role honestly, and only introduce candidates who are genuinely interested. Your time and theirs.
A quant researcher or game engine programmer with a real body of work is not going to respond to a bulk LinkedIn InMail. They've seen it a thousand times and they ignore it.
The engineers you want are employed, well-paid, and deeply skeptical of recruiters. They respond to specificity — a message that shows you've read their work, understand what they've built, and have a role genuinely worth considering.
That takes a human who understands the domain, supported by a platform that can find these people at all. That's what we do.
Tell us who you're looking for. We'll come back with a brief, a timeline and a sense of what the market looks like right now for that profile.