I'm working on a project and my team needs to scale fast. Any recommendations on good places to try to recruit part-time contract EEs/Embedded SW workers? Besides the obvious LinkedIn and Indeed.

 

Over the past two decades a number of people – one or two dozen – have asked similar questions looking for help from forum members. To my knowledge none of those requests resulted in a successful consummation. Your request is just different enough that you might get a useful suggestion. You can search all of the archived threads to look for success stories, but I'm afraid that quest will founder on the rocks of disappointment.

 

I would recommend telling use here what you are looking for. What kind of work do you need done, what kind of skills and experience you are looking for, what you expect the length of the contract to be, and a rough idea of what you are looking to pay for it. Some folks here might be interested, or they may well know someone that might be interested and bring this to their attention.

 

Over the past two decades a number of people – one or two dozen – have asked similar questions looking for help from forum members. To my knowledge none of those requests resulted in a successful consummation.

No surprise there. Most wanted an unpaid partner for a lame-brained start-up idea. Others laughed when told what it might cost. And the remaining ones could not describe, in a coherent way, what they wanted.

Good consultants do not come cheap. Unfortunately, bad ones don’t either.

A beneficial consulting contract requires competence on both sides.

 

No surprise there. Most wanted an unpaid partner for a lame-brained start-up idea. Others laughed when told what it might cost. And the remaining ones could not describe, in a coherent way, what they wanted.

Good consultants do not come cheap. Unfortunately, bad ones don’t either.

A beneficial consulting contract requires competence on both sides.

@BobTPH
You've been here for more than a decade, are you aware of anyone who has arranged a successful collaboration through this forum?

Does anyone on this forum know of a successful collaboration arranged here?

 

Do you have someone on your team already that understands what scaling up entails? That would be the first hire on my list. Are you only handling product development/engineering in house and manufacturing elsewhere? Are you manufacturing elsewhere and doing final assembly in house?

Have you thought about regulatory requirements?

You are far better off advertising locally, especially for a startup. Potential hires often want a guarantee of stability before moving.

If you are hell-bent on using consultants, be prepared for sticker shock. Good consultants don't come cheap. Also, be very explicit on your requirements. You want to get what you need, not what your consultant interpreted as your requirements.

 

I didn't originally provide the details of the roles because I didn't think this was the correct forum to post job openings, but here are the details if anyone is interested

Looking to hire 2 US based part time (10-30h/week) remote contract roles.

1. Electrical Engineer

• Schematic Capture
• PCB Layout
• Differential Signal Routing
• Blind/buried vias
• Dense layout
• PCB Bring up
• Troubleshooting

2. Embedded Linux Developer

• Drivers/FW/BSP/Device Tree
• Power management/Battery optimization
• MIPI DSI/CSI
• GUI/UX

Compensation hourly depends on level of experience, competitive.

Reach out to me with a resume if you’re interested: <e-mail deleted>

MOD NOTE: E-mail address removed to prevent spam.

Interested members should start a conversation with the TS and contact information can be exchanged that way.

 

You should be aware that including an email address in a forum post will subject you to totally incredible amount of spam. Moderators will often remove them for that reason.

 

I think a minimum number of posts are required to start a conversation. Ten perhaps.