Mining & Resources · Data Centers · AI & Compute
We staff the companies
building the next century.
Everything ahead of us — every model trained, every data hall energised, every grid rebuilt — starts underground and ends in compute. TierRecruit finds the engineers, operators and leaders who make that chain real. Seed to IPO, public and private, for over twenty years.
20+
YEARS PLACING
15+
COUNTRIES
1–2
WEEKS TO SHORTLIST
Seed→IPO
PUBLIC & PRIVATE
Where we work
The through-line
Three industries. One chain.
Copper and lithium out of the ground. Power and steel into a data hall. Intelligence out the other side. Most agencies see three unrelated markets — we see one supply chain, and we hire across all of it.
01 / EXTRACT
The ground
Copper, lithium, nickel, rare earths. Nothing gets built without the people who find it, move it and keep the site safe.
02 / ENERGISE
The halls
Gigawatt campuses, substations, liquid cooling, commissioning crews. The hardest physical build-out since the railways.
03 / THINK
The intelligence
Research, training infrastructure, applied ML and the protocol and platform engineers who ship it to the world.
Where we hire
Deep in three markets, generalist in none.
01 / MINING & RESOURCES
Mining & Resources
Copper · Lithium · Gold · Rare earths
Mining engineers, geologists, processing and operations leaders, HSE and commodity specialists — for the producers and juniors supplying the energy transition.
02 / DATA CENTERS & CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Data Centers & Critical Infrastructure
Gigawatt campuses · Power · Cooling · Commissioning
Design, construction and operations talent for hyperscale and colocation builds — electrical and mechanical leads, commissioning managers, site and energy directors.
03 / AI, COMPUTE & PROTOCOLS
AI, Compute & Protocols
Research · Training infra · Applied ML · Web3
ML engineers, researchers, infrastructure and platform leaders for AI-first companies and labs — plus the protocol and blockchain engineering we have hired for since 2017.
Engagement models
Three ways to work with us.
Contingent & Executive Search
Success-based hiring for senior and executive roles. You pay when someone signs, not before.
Campaign & Project Recruitment
A full hiring campaign when you need a team, not a person. Built for scale-ups and build-outs.
International & Interstate
Cross-border and remote-first hiring, including the compliance and relocation nobody enjoys.
How a search runs
Five steps. No mystery.
01
Deep intake
We learn the role, the team and the honest reason someone would leave their job for it.
02
Strategic sourcing
Proprietary data and twenty years of relationships, not a job board repost.
03
Expert screening
Every prospect reviewed by a specialist before you ever see a CV.
04
Shortlist
Qualified candidates with a clear read on fit, risk and motivation.
05
Close & onboard
Offer negotiation, counter-offer defence and check-ins after day one.
For companies
Tell us who you need to build.
Send a brief and we'll come back within 24 hours with a market read, a realistic timeline and a shortlist plan. No retainer, no upfront cost.
Submit a role briefFor candidates
Work on something that outlasts you.
One conversation, total confidentiality, and roles you won't find on a job board. We'll only come back to you when it's genuinely worth your time.
Upload your CVQuestions
Before you get in touch.
We hire across one supply chain rather than three unrelated markets, and we invest heavily in proprietary data to reach talent directly. That means higher submission-to-hire ratios and shorter time-to-fill than a generalist agency can offer.
First shortlists typically land within one to two weeks on contingent searches. Campaign timelines are scoped on volume and role complexity, and we set expectations at intake rather than after.
Yes — Australia, the US, UK, Eastern Europe and APAC, across fifteen-plus countries. Remote-first and cross-border hiring, including visa and relocation support, is core to how we work.
Flexible contingency and retained options depending on service model, seniority and volume. No retainer and no upfront cost on contingent work. Get in touch for a tailored proposal.
It is where we started and it remains a core vertical. If anything the energy transition has made resources hiring harder and more important, not less.
Yes — campaign and project recruitment is built for exactly that: parallel hiring streams, a dedicated team, and entire site crews built from scratch. We scope volume and timeline at intake, so you know what is realistic before we start rather than after.