Technical search for engineering,R&D and manufacturing in Vietnam.Technical search for engineering,R&D and manufacturingin Vietnam.
An hour of interview, years of work.We read the years.An hour of interview, years of work.We read the years.
Work leaves a record.
Production lines that came up on schedule. Systems still running. Patents and papers with a name on them. People in the same field who remember who did what.
Kelson starts there.
Technical practice
Chief engineers, R&D directors, plant leadership, principal specialists across advanced engineering disciplines — for companies building manufacturing and engineering operations in Vietnam.
Academic practice
Principal investigators, research chairs, senior faculty — for international universities and research-driven organisations building a presence in Vietnam.
Define the problem, not the job title.
Every search starts with your engineering lead and a written description of the technical problem this hire has to solve. Sometimes that conversation ends with: this role isn't the answer. We'll say so.
Map the field.
We map where that work is actually being done in Vietnam — which plants, which labs, which teams. Then we go to the people doing it.
Present with the record — including what we couldn't verify.
Every profile says what someone built, and what we couldn't confirm. The candidate reads through this profile before it is sent to you — including the unverified parts.
What we don't take on.
Two practices, technical and academic — and inside them, only the sectors we've chosen to read closely enough to get it done right. Outside those, we'll say so on the first call, not three weeks in. And we don't describe a network we don't have.
2026 Executive Engineering Compensation Benchmarks across Vietnam FDI Corridors
There is no single Vietnam market rate. Two managers with the same title can be priced two to three times apart.
IC Design Talent Mapping in Vietnam: Supply Realities and Architectural Bottlenecks
Vietnam has roughly 7,000 IC design engineers. That number says very little about who can own an architecture.
Terms in the open.
For those who do the work.
Most outreach starts with a job description that could fit anyone. Ours starts with your work — and only reaches you when it matches.
For those who are hiring.
A wrong hire at this level costs six months. The first call with us costs an hour.
“Most weeks I spend a few hours talking to engineers about their work, with no job attached. Most of them never become candidates. It's still how I learn what a role actually involves — and still the part I like most.”