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OCTOPUS SEARCH
True Market Experts
Providing expert guidance, and effective solutions
ABOUT US
Octopus Search is a specialist search firm focused on AI, machine learning and technical leadership within healthcare and life sciences.
With over two decades of experience supporting technology companies with complex hiring challenges, we help organisations secure critical hires and scale teams at key stages of growth.
Many of the organisations we support rely on us to help secure critical hires where technical depth, healthcare domain experience and cultural alignment are essential to long term success.
Today our work is focused on HealthTech, MedTech and AI driven healthcare companies developing technologies such as medical imaging platforms, clinical AI systems and healthcare data infrastructure.
Many of the organisations we support operate within regulated healthcare environments where both deep technical expertise and industry understanding are essential.
We build long term relationships through transparency, accountability and delivery, maintaining a strong focus on quality over quantity.
Our Expertise
- Executive & Leadership
CTO, VP Engineering, Head of AI, Chief Data or AI Officer - AI & Platform Engineering
Machine Learning Engineers, MLOps Engineers, AI Infrastructure Engineers, Data Scientists - Healthcare & Regulatory Specialists
Clinical Research Scientists, Regulatory and Quality leaders (QARA), medical imaging specialists - Product & Engineering Teams
Backend Engineers, Platform Engineers, Product Managers and technical leadership - Commercial & Customer Teams
VP Sales, Account Executives, Customer Success leaders and Customer Success Engineers
Our Services - Global Reach
- We support organisations globally across the UK, Europe and the United States, working with companies at different stages of growth from early product development through clinical validation to commercial scale.
- Our work includes both permanent and contract hiring across engineering, AI, regulatory and commercial leadership roles.
- Through a focused search approach and strong industry networks, we help our clients identify individuals capable of building and scaling innovative healthcare technologies.
Many of the companies we support are developing AI driven healthcare technologies operating within regulated healthcare environments including FDA regulated medical software as well as frameworks such as SaMD, ISO 13485 and IEC 62304.
INDUSTRY EXPERTISE
Why clients work with Octopus Search.
Hiring within AI healthcare is uniquely challenging. The most valuable individuals combine deep technical expertise with an understanding of healthcare environments and regulated software development.
These individuals are rarely active on the job market and are often only accessible through targeted search and trusted industry relationships.
Through our focused work within the AI healthcare ecosystem we are able to identify and engage individuals with the experience required to help our clients build and scale innovative healthcare technologies.
Our focus on this specialised area allows us to provide a level of market insight and candidate access that generalist recruiters cannot match.
Many of the companies we support are venture backed organisations building AI driven healthcare technologies and scaling their teams as they move from product development through clinical validation to commercial growth.