Everything I work on sits between the device and the application, and the same engineers move between these areas.
- Edge platform and on-device software engineers
- IoT platform and connectivity engineers
- Device-data and telemetry pipeline engineers
- Industrial IoT and OT engineers
- Engineering leaders and architects
- Connected-product companies running a device fleet
- IoT platform and connectivity vendors
- Edge and industrial data software companies
- In-house platform teams at manufacturers, utilities and operators
MQTT, OPC-UA, AWS IoT Core, Azure IoT Hub, Greengrass, Yocto, K3s, Kafka, Flink, InfluxDB. The software layer between the device and the application.
If you are hiring
These roles are hard for a reason. The people who have actually built this layer are few, and nearly all of them are already in jobs.
This is the only market I work in, so I spend my time knowing who those people are rather than starting to look once you brief me. That means a short list instead of a long one, and every name on it can defend the work.
If you build in this space
I keep a view across the companies working in this layer. Who is genuinely doing the work rather than claiming it, where the interesting problems actually sit, and what the market is paying for them.
You do not need to be looking for anything. If that is ever a useful view to have, I am easy to reach.
Cova is one person. Me, Oliver Laycock.
That is a deliberate choice, not a stage on the way to building an agency. You deal with me from the first conversation through to the offer. The person who takes the brief is the person doing the searching and making the calls, so nothing reaches you second hand.
The trade is capacity. I take on a small number of searches at a time, and I will tell you plainly when I am not the right person for one.
Permanent placements only. No contract, no volume, no fifty roles on a job board.
Get in touch
Email or LinkedIn, whichever is easier. You do not need a live role or a live search to start a conversation.