"North didn't just send me postings. They understood my background in power electronics and routed me to the teams that were actually the right fit."
Priya Nandakumar
SENIOR HARDWARE ENGINEER
Great engineers don't apply to job postings.
We reach them first, understand what they actually want, and make the case worth switching for.
Recent placements at
Helios Grid
Voltaic Systems
Meridian Energy
Ionic Labs
Arcflow
Terra Dynamics
PLACING
BUILDERS.
North was founded on a simple observation: the engineers and scientists rebuilding the energy grid don't apply to job postings. They get one shot every few years to make a move, and they want that conversation to be with someone who actually understands the work, the hardware, the physics, the tradeoffs, and the difference between a company that will scale them and one that will burn them out. That's the bar we hold ourselves to. We've spent over a decade inside the hiring rooms of the climate technology companies building the hardest infrastructure on the planet. We don't pitch roles. We have honest conversations about where someone should spend the next five years of their career, and we're often the reason it's the right call.
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Placements since 2011
$120K-380K
Range of recent offers
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Years inside these hiring rooms
CONNECTING
GRID-SCALE
TALENT
At North, we don't just fill positions. We build the teams and de-risk the bets. We specialize in connecting exceptional engineering and research talent with the world's most ambitious climate technology and clean energy companies.
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Hardware &
Grid Engineering
The engineers who keep a megawatt online: power electronics, embedded controls, and the systems that turn physics into product. We know which teams are actually shipping, how each company structures its hardware stack, and what a real offer looks like before you ever see one.
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Software &
Platform
The software teams that turn a single site into a fleet: monitoring, controls software, and the platforms field engineers build on top of. Most arrive from big tech and want an honest read on what the switch really feels like.
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Data &
Applied AI
Researchers and engineers moving between frontier labs, venture-backed climate startups, and the utilities now bidding for exactly the same people. We can tell you how the compute, the data access, and the equity actually compare.
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Leadership &
Team Builds
Whole functions, not single seats. Some of these searches start with one engineer and end, years later, with a plant, a platform team, and the person running both.
WHO WE
WORK WITH
Our client relationships have existed for nearly fifteen years. They're not logos we collected. They're companies we've helped staff through generations of hiring, from a single founding engineer to entire plant organizations. We work with companies that pay the top of the market, run the best engineering cultures, and treat hiring as a long game.
Start a conversation- Helios GridGRID SOFTWARE
- Voltaic SystemsBATTERY STORAGE
- Meridian EnergyCLEAN POWER
- ArcflowPOWER ELECTRONICS
- Ionic LabsBATTERY STORAGE
- Terra DynamicsCLIMATE AI
What it's like
to work with us.
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WHO YOU'LL ACTUALLY
WORK WITH
North is run by partners who do the work themselves. No junior recruiters cold-messaging candidates, no algorithmic outreach, no spray-and-pray. When you talk to someone at North, you're talking to the person who will run your search from intake to offer.
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Mara Kessler
FOUNDER & CEO
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Devon Okafor
TALENT PARTNER
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Elena Voss
TALENT PARTNER
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Sam Iturralde
TALENT PARTNER
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Priya Bhatt
TALENT PARTNER
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