Technical Research and Development Specialist – R&D

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Hunt St

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1 - 10 employees

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

Hunt St is an Australia-based recruiting firm founded by brothers Shaun and Eliot with the aim of helping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) hire top offshore talent directly, avoiding the high costs associated with traditional outsourcing agencies. The company offers a unique one-time finder's fee model, enabling clients to save significantly on recruitment costs. They provide comprehensive services including job postings, candidate screenings, interviews, and legal support for compliant remote hiring. Hunt St specializes in sourcing talent from countries like the Philippines, Nepal, Indonesia, and India, offering a transparent and ethical hiring process that allows businesses to provide fairer compensation to employees while ensuring stringent security and compliance measures are met.

📋 Description

• Find Core R&D & Technical Uncertainty: Interrogate client transcripts and source materials to extract genuine technological uncertainties, hypotheses, experiments, failed approaches, observations, and conclusions—distinguishing core experimental R&D from work that was simply hard, slow, new, or expensive. • Check Material Claims Against Source: Rigorously verify every assertion against original client data. If a claim is not explicitly backed by source material, treat it as unsupported rather than trying to make it sound convincing. • Deliver High-Quality First-Pass Assessments: Prepare accurate, comprehensive initial technical work as part of the learning and production process, allowing the R&D Tax Manager to review rather than write from scratch. • Observe & Lead Technical Interviews: Attend technical client interviews alongside our R&D Tax Manager—initially observing how strong R&D activities are identified, progressing toward leading discussions with engineers, CTOs, and technical leads. • Develop Material Follow-Up Questions: Formulate the five highest-value follow-up questions for every case that materially improve the technical position and fill critical evidence gaps. • Interrogate Source Material via AI: Use AI to analyze and extract insights from Fathom transcripts and technical documentation rather than manually summarizing line by line. • Adversarial AI Self-Testing: Establish a daily habit of using AI to challenge your own work before submitting it—prompting AI to act as a skeptical government tax auditor to attack your conclusions, expose weaknesses, and test alternative interpretations. • Continuous Workflow Optimization: Continuously suggest better prompts, technical interview questions, internal QA workflows, and quality-control processes as you learn.

🎯 Requirements

• 3–5+ years of experience as a scientist, engineer, or technical professional with practical industry experience in engineering, software development, product development, testing, validation, or failure investigation. • Experimental Thinking: Deep understanding of hypotheses, technical uncertainty, testing, iteration, failure modes, and systematic learning. • Technical Judgment: Ability to distinguish genuine experimentation from work that was simply hard, slow, new, or expensive. • Critical Technical Skepticism: A strict habit of checking claims against source evidence and refusing to dress up unsupported statements. • Ownership: Ability to progress work independently without repeated chasing while actively looking for system improvements. • Clear Communication: Excellent spoken and written English, with the ability to unpack complex technical concepts and explain reasoning clearly. • Highly Desirable • Sufficient software-development literacy to understand technical limitations, failed architectural approaches, testing frameworks, and code logic. • Daily, practical experience using Claude, ChatGPT, or similar tools for complex technical analysis and structured data extraction (rather than just drafting emails). • Prior experience working with Australian, UK, or US businesses. • Bonus Points • Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Cursor, automation tools, or lightweight application development. • Experience building/refining advanced prompt frameworks, AI workflows, or automated review processes. • Background or familiarity with the Australian R&D Tax Incentive framework (specifically the legal definitions of Core and Supporting R&D activities).