PHM is a specialist technology recruitment agency for Canada and the USA. Our technology recruiters place software engineering, data, analytics and AI, and cloud and infrastructure talent — for product companies and for the engineering, construction and industrial firms digitizing around them. Exclusive, search-led mandates on a fee-on-hire basis.
Since January 2026 an Ontario employer with 25 or more staff has had to put the expected pay range in a public job posting, say whether the vacancy is real, declare it if artificial intelligence screens applicants, and tell everyone interviewed the outcome within 45 days. The range is readable by your own team as easily as by a candidate. Which is part of why the roles that matter are increasingly filled without a posting at all.
A technology mis-hire is felt in architecture decisions that outlast the person. You inherit their choices long after they have moved on.
We approach technology people directly rather than advertising for them, assess through conversation with someone who understands the work, and test what they actually built and owned.
Genuine depth across the technology and digital disciplines — we understand the roles and the work they answer for, not just the titles. A sample of where we place:
Levels from specialists and individual contributors through architects, engineering and data leaders, and technology executives.
Retained-level rigour, on an exclusive basis, for a fee paid on the hire — no upfront retainer and the delivery risk on us. We also work standard contingency where a role suits it. How we engage →
Because we don’t run volume, an exclusive technology mandate gets our full bandwidth — and we’re driven to deliver in less time than industry norms.
Product, enterprise, and embedded software — from developers to engineering leaders. See the software page.
Applied data and AI — data engineering, science, ML, analytics, and platform. See the data & AI page.
Cloud, DevOps, networking, systems, and security. See the cloud & infrastructure page.
Both terms get used for us. A technology staffing agency typically supplies contract developers at volume. We are technology recruiters running exclusive, search-led mandates for permanent and leadership roles.
The specialties and levels are listed above. We recruit them for consultancies, owners, contractors and industrial employers across Canada and the USA.
Yes — increasingly. Beyond technology and product companies, we place the technology talent that engineering, construction, and manufacturing firms need as they digitize and adopt AI.
Yes. We assess AI fluency directly as part of vetting, in conversation with someone who knows the work — useful as more clients need people who can genuinely use AI, not just claim to.
Exclusive contingency: the same process a retained firm runs, without the retainer. We are paid when the hire is made, so the risk of not delivering is ours.
Across Canada and the USA. We are headquartered in London, Ontario and recruit into Toronto, Ottawa, London, Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria — and, because technology work is the most location-independent we handle, into remote-first teams anywhere.
Often not. The strongest technology people are passive and in demand — reached through direct search, and the openings never surface publicly.
An advisory conversation about the technology hire ahead of you — and where the right person is likely to come from. Not a commitment.