Profound People

Profound People is a specialist recruitment group that connects technology focussed organisations with engineers and technology professionals. It says its team comes from technical backgrounds, and it works with clients ranging from fast-scaling startups to established enterprises.

The company was originally founded in 1991 and says it has spent over 34 years supporting Australia's technology sector. It began in electronics, embedded systems and IT and has moved into product development and technical innovation. It recruits across technology, engineering and DeepTech, including embedded software and electronics, mechatronics and robotics, semiconductors and quantum, medical devices, advanced manufacturing, AI and data, software engineering, and cloud and infrastructure. It also covers brand and digital marketing roles.

Services include permanent recruitment, contract and temporary staffing, executive search for roles such as CTOs and Heads of Engineering, and recruitment process outsourcing. The outsourcing service extends to human resources, workplace health and safety, compliance, finance and customer service roles. The company is based in Surry Hills, New South Wales.