Hiring, tuned to the speed of hard problems.
Velox Talent is a specialist search firm for teams doing difficult work: autonomy, robotics, defense, and embedded systems — and the software that holds them together. We find the candidate who isn't applying anywhere — before your competitors know the role is open.
Built engineering teams at
Started by a recruiter who's done the search before, not just staffed it.
Gabe M.
A decade recruiting engineering and product talent for companies building hard technology. Gabe founded Velox Talent after leading technical recruiting inside the companies whose hiring bar he now recruits against — five-plus years at Meta building out its early-career and staff-level software engineering recruiting, then Baton as its first recruiter and employee #12, then Applied Intuition on engineering leadership search.
Searches closed across SoC architects, RL researchers, and VPs of Engineering — three unrelated hiring problems that each demand a different playbook.
- 5+ years at Meta — Technical Recruiting Manager, Staff Technical Recruiter, and Lead Technical Recruiter for University Recruiting
- First recruiter hire at Baton (employee #12), built the hiring process from zero to one
- Technical Recruiter at Applied Intuition, focused on engineering leadership
- Hiring experience spans consumer electronics, medical devices, and application software, alongside autonomy and defense
We search where the roadmap gets hard.
Velox recruits for the roles a generalist agency reads off a job description — not the ones it actually understands.
Technical Executive Leadership
VP and Head of Engineering hires who can set technical direction and hold the org's bar.
Software Engineering
VP through IC — backend, full-stack, and platform engineers for teams shipping hard technology.
Robotics
Perception, controls, and mechatronics engineers building systems that operate in the physical world.
ML / AI / RL Engineering & Research
Applied ML engineers and RL researchers who can move a model from paper to production.
SoC Architecture
Chip and system architects for teams where the hardware and software boundary is the hard part.
Firmware & Embedded Systems
Firmware and embedded engineers who write the software closest to the metal.
A search process built to move at your pace, not the market's.
Signal
A working session with your hiring team to define the actual technical bar — the architecture decisions, the ambiguity level, the team gaps a JD never captures.
Sourcing
Targeted, direct outreach to passive candidates matched on stack, trajectory, and team fit — not keyword-matched resumes pulled from a database.
Shortlist
A curated slate with our technical assessment attached to every candidate — you see our reasoning, not just a resume stack.
Close
Offer strategy, competing-offer intelligence, and negotiation support through signature — we stay in the deal until it's done.
Built on searches already closed, not a firm starting from zero.
Recruiting engineering and product talent for hard-tech companies
At Meta, building early-career through staff-level software engineering recruiting
Employee number at Baton, where Gabe was the first recruiting hire
Hard-tech companies hired for: Applied Intuition, Tesla, Meta, and Baton
Velox Talent launched in August 2026 — these figures reflect Gabe's recruiting career prior to founding the firm.
Turn your recruiting team into a high-response machine.
Velox also works directly with in-house recruiting and talent teams — training them on the same AI-driven playbooks we use to run our own searches.
AI-Powered Outreach Messaging
Message frameworks and prompt playbooks tuned for technical and passive candidates — consistently landing 25%+ response rates.
Pitch & Counter-Pitch Generation
Real-time, role-specific pitch decks and counter-offer responses your team can generate on demand — so objections get met in the moment, not after the candidate's gone quiet.
Sourcing Automation
AI-assisted sourcing workflows that expand your top-of-funnel without expanding headcount — so your team spends time on conversations, not Boolean strings.
Offer Negotiation & Closing Strategies
Teaching teams how to close from the very first conversation — not just the final one — plus niche strategies tailored to specific candidates and profiles, so the process ends in a signed offer instead of a lost finalist.
Fill the role that's actually blocking your roadmap.
Retained and contingent search for teams hiring their next 1–15 technical hires, with a real technical assessment behind every name we send.
- Dedicated search lead, not a shared inbox
- Weekly pipeline reviews, not a black box
- Compensation benchmarking pulled from live searches
We only reach out when it's a real fit.
No spray-and-pray InMail. If Velox contacts you, it's because your background maps to a role we're actively running — and we'll tell you exactly why.
- Direct line to the hiring team, not a keyword filter
- Honest read on comp, scope, and stage risk
- We represent you through negotiation, not just the intro
"An SoC architect, an RL researcher, and a VP of Engineering are three unrelated searches, each demanding a different approach."
— Gabe M., Founder, Velox TalentLet's start the conversation.
We typically respond within one business day with next steps and a proposed timeline.