Direct-hire recruitment without the churn.
Full-time on-payroll engineers, sourced and screened by sector specialists.
Direct-hire recruitment means the candidate is hired straight onto the employer's payroll as a on-payroll employee, with the agency paid a placement fee. Mindpool India runs direct-hire searches for engineering, operations, and research roles across AI Infrastructure, semiconductor, energy, robotics, and data-centre employers in India.
What you get
A shortlist you can act on: every candidate screened by a recruiter who understands the domain, with written notes on the specific competencies you named in the brief, plus availability, motivation, and compensation expectations already validated.
- Full-time on-payroll placements only
- Written screening notes against your named competencies
- Compensation and availability validated before shortlist
- Onsite, hybrid, and remote coverage nationwide
Roles we place direct-hire
RTL and verification engineers, physical design, analog/mixed-signal, silicon validation, GPU cluster, ML platform and AI networking engineers, power systems and grid engineers, energy project engineers, data-centre and critical-facilities engineers, robotics and controls engineers.
Frequently asked
What does direct hire mean?
Direct hire means the employee is hired permanently and directly by the employer as a on-payroll employee. The recruitment agency introduces and manages the process but never employs the candidate.
Is direct hire the same as permanent placement?
In practice, yes, both describe a full-time employee joining the employer's payroll. Mindpool India uses the terms interchangeably and does not offer contract alternatives.
Do you place remote roles?
Yes. Onsite, hybrid, and fully remote direct-hire roles are all in scope where the employer supports them.
How a Mindpool India search runs
Every engagement starts with a briefing call in which we pull apart the role rather than the job title: the problems the hire owns in their first two quarters, the systems and tooling they inherit, who they work alongside, and which parts of the specification are genuinely non-negotiable. That brief becomes the scorecard we screen against for this search, so shortlists are argued for on evidence instead of keyword overlap.
Sourcing is deliberately two-track. We approach specialists already known to our sector recruiters, and we run targeted, specialised outreach into the specific teams, programmes, and technologies where the relevant experience actually sits, including people who are not searching. Candidates are then interviewed by a recruiter who understands the domain, reference-checked on the claims that matter, and presented with a written rationale, compensation expectations, notice period, and location constraints already confirmed.
Permanent hiring only, what that means
Mindpool India is a permanent recruitment and executive search firm. Every placement is a full-time, direct-hire employee on your payroll, on your benefits, and inside your engineering culture. We do not provide contract, temporary, temp-to-hire, or contingent staffing, and we do not act as an employer of record. That single focus is why our process optimises for retention rather than time-to-fill alone.
- • Contingent permanent search, retained executive search, embedded RPO, or research-led talent mapping
- • Sector-specialist recruiters in AI infrastructure and ML platform, energy, and semiconductors
- • Roughly 21 days from brief to a signed offer on a typical search
- • 90-day retention guarantee on every permanent placement
- • India-wide coverage
Hiring managers can book a call or email a hiring brief and receive a calibrated shortlist with market context on availability and compensation before committing to a full search.