Is Metheion a recruitment agency?

We are a technical recruiting provider without recruiters. Every search is run by engineers who understand your product and technology stack, so candidates are judged on real technical ability rather than keywords in a CV.

Who will run our search?

A technical expert owns your brief, the search, and the interviews from start to finish. You discuss the product, the technology, and the hiring need directly with an engineer.

What does risk-free hiring mean?

Trying us costs nothing: there are no kickoff, retainer, or monthly fees, and you pay a success fee only if you hire our candidate. If a placed hire does not complete the guarantee period, we find a replacement at no extra charge.

Which companies do you work with?

Deep-tech companies, startups, and scaleups hiring for niche technical roles — from early teams making their first engineering hires to global players building specialized groups.

Which technical roles do you cover?

We recruit across 24 sectors and 242 engineering disciplines, from semiconductors and robotics to energy, photonics, and AI. If your role is not listed, it is almost certainly adjacent to one that is.

About Us

Metheion is an Elite Technical Recruiting provider

Technical Recruiting for global deep tech companies, startups, and scaleups
No recruiters — experienced engineers, scientists, and technical leads do the hiring
Full technical assessment based on your product and team needs, not just CVs
Professional headhunting for top 1% engineering talent with niche technical expertise
Risk-free hiring through our success-based model and money-back guarantee

Our Technical Recruiting team

Kirill Kamnev, PhD

CEO & Founder @ Metheion

Recruiting across: All technical topics

Kirill founded Metheion to replace CV-screening with structured technical interviews run by engineers. He is a deep-tech generalist with multi-domain technical experience spanning academia, industrial R&D, technical consulting, and several deep tech startups. His previous work covers nanotechnology, semiconductors, advanced materials, energy storage, energy conversion, sensors, and biomedical technologies, giving him depth across highly specialized engineering topics.

Tomas Schreuder

CTO & Co-Founder @ Metheion

Recruiting across: Software Engineering, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, IT, Telecommunications, Cybersecurity

Tomas leads technology and automation at Metheion, building tools and automation workflows that enable better sourcing and technical recruiting. He is a data and full-stack engineer with experience across multiple technology startups. His work spans data science, machine learning, LLM systems, quantitative simulations, cybersecurity, and high-volume data pipelines, giving him hands-on experience in technical fields being reshaped by AI.

We don't just source engineers

We discover top 1% engineers who actually understand what you are building.

Our story

Metheion was built for a reason

Hiring technical talent is fundamentally different from hiring for most other roles.

When the technology and roles are complex, just a CV and standard recruitment questions are not enough to determine whether someone can actually solve complex technical challenges to build the product, outpace the competition, and win the market. Deep-tech companies need recruiters who understand engineering, physics, science, and technology well enough to identify the right people and evaluate them properly.

Metheion was built to close that gap.

Founded by engineers, Metheion focuses exclusively on technical recruiting for deep-tech companies, startups, and scaleups. Other recruiters rely on keywords, job titles, and years of experience to evaluate candidates. We rely on years of real engineering experience, structured technical interviews, and our global technical talent network to identify the top 1% engineers who have the right skills to tackle technical challenges that come with each individual role.

The interview
Our approach goes beyond simply delivering a shortlist and unimaginative standard "Do you have experience in X" recruiting questions. We built an Elite Technical Recruiting service where candidates are faced against a real technical expert for a rigorous 60-minute interview tailored specifically to your product, technology, and hiring requirements.
The report
After the technical interview, we produce a comprehensive technical report that maps a candidate's technical skills against the product and tech stack. The report saves time for the hiring team by providing a clear picture of real technical capabilities, enabling more informed hiring decisions.

We have built a unique recruiting process specifically designed for companies where getting the right technical hire matters.

We hire across

Engineering
R&D
Technical Sales

Metheion vs other agencies

You might wonder why collaborate with Metheion when there are many recruiting industry titans that can offer access to thousands of candidates, sophisticated platforms, and established hiring pipelines.

We are not recruiters. We are engineers.
When you are hiring for highly specialized deep-tech roles, that difference matters.

What differentiates us against larger agencies

Engineers hire engineers
Our team comes from technical and engineering backgrounds. We understand what it means to hire for a role where selecting best candidate comes down to a very specific technical nuances.
We speak the same technical language
We understand your product and can discuss your technology, processes, materials, equipment, architectures, and technical hiring challenges directly with your team.
We have technical approach to hiring
Because we understand the technology, we don’t have to resort to keyword matching and instead build our search around your actual product and technical requirements.
We keep pulse with the tech community
Technical professionals have technical networks. Our connections come organically from years of real work in engineering, research, and deep-tech environments.
We know where tech talent is
The best candidates are not actively looking for a job on a conventional job board. We know which companies, research groups, and specialized technical channels will have top candidates for your hiring needs.
We evaluate candidates technically
Instead of asking whether somebody has “5+ years of experience with a skill” we ask technical questions that test real knowledge of underlying technologies, tools, physics, engineering principles, and processes.

Tech hiring done better

Our clients notice that we strive to provide excellent tech hiring experience.

5.0

“We worked with Metheion to recruit our Technical Business Manager – Product-Market Fit for Robotics Gearboxes & Actuators, and the experience was excellent. They took the time to ask the right questions to really understand what AILOS needed and provided very valuable and candid feedback on each candidate. The process was efficient and ultimately led us to a very good match, both professionally and personally. Beyond the recruiting result, Metheion is simply very comfortable and enjoyable to work with, and we would gladly work with them again.”