Technical Staffing | Optimal Tech Partners

The Staffing Firm for the World's Most Ambitious Engineering Teams. We are recruiters first, not engineers who picked up recruiting on the side. We place senior engineers and engineering leaders, plus the critical early hires around them in GTM, account executives, marketing, analytics, and especially recruiting, at US venture-backed startups. First interview-ready candidates within 72 hours. 91% offer close rate. Try your first search free: you pay only when we place. Founded by Kyler Frisbee, 2x Google Best Partner award winner.

An extension of your engineering team

Rivian

Built four of Rivian's core software divisions during the run to the largest IPO since Facebook. Placed the VP of Software Engineering and the ML Director.

Unity Technologies

Scaled Unity's machine learning team from one to thirty engineers. The group went on to create the first AI agents capable of playing video games at a high level.

Mira Labs (acquired by Apple)

Helped build the early team and led talent at the executive level ahead of acquisition by Apple.

NEXT Trucking

Placed the Chief Product Officer. The company went on to raise $150 million.

Led by Kyler Frisbee

Founder and Managing Partner. 540+ senior engineer placements. Two companies taken public, one acquired by Apple. 2x Google Tech Staffing Best Partner Award winner. Fifteen years embedded in engineering organizations at Google, Rivian, Unity, and venture-backed startups.

Contact

Start a search: https://optimal.tech/hire | kyler@optimal.tech

For engineers: partners@optimal.tech