About the firm
Named for the star
you steer by.
A lodestar is the one star sailors trusted to navigate by — not because it was the brightest, but because it held still while everything else moved. Before compasses, it was how you found your way home in the dark.
Hiring engineers can feel like the opposite of that. The market churns. Salaries jump. A great candidate is gone in a week. Generalist agencies add to the noise — thirty résumés, two of which could pass your loop, and your own engineers losing afternoons to screens they should never have had to run.
Lodestar exists to be the fixed point in that. One specialist who learns your stack, your bar, and your story, and then runs a disciplined search you can actually navigate against. No churn on your side. No noise. Just a steady read on where the talent is and how to bring the right person in.
We’re rooted in Seattle — 47.6062°N, 122.3321°W — because the Pacific Northwest engineering market is one we’re genuinely part of. But the work travels: we place engineers for remote and distributed teams wherever the right person happens to live.
Your name here
Founder & Principal Recruiter
This is where your story goes — the years in engineering or recruiting, the teams you’ve helped build, the reason you started this firm. In this category, the founder’s credibility is the brand, so this section earns its place near the top.
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What we believe
Four things that don’t change.
Specialists, not generalists
We recruit engineers and only engineers. The depth is the entire value — it’s why our screens hold up and our shortlists are short.
Honest beats optimistic
If a search is going to be hard, we say so on day one. If a role isn’t right for a candidate, we say that too. The truth is faster.
Fewer, better
We’d rather run three searches brilliantly than thirty badly. Boutique isn’t a size — it’s a promise about attention.
From here, for here
We know the Pacific Northwest engineering market because we’re part of it. The relationships aren’t a database — they’re people we actually know.
Let’s find your north.
Whether you’re hiring or thinking about a move, the first conversation is always free.
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