Zomato founder and Everlasting Vice Chairman Deepinder Goyal is placing collectively an engineering workforce for his health-tech startup Temple—and he desires individuals who can bench as exhausting as they will code. In a put up on X (previously Twitter), Goyal introduced hiring for a slew of deep-tech roles however made it clear that technical expertise alone will not minimize it. Solely candidates with physique fats below 16% (males) or 26% (ladies) ought to apply. Those that do not meet the health threshold but nonetheless have a shot, however they will stay on probation till they get there inside three months. “We’re constructing for individuals who push their our bodies to the sting. We need to be these individuals, not simply serve them,” Goyal wrote.The roles on provide embody Analog Methods Engineers, Embedded Methods Engineers, Computational Neuroscientists, BCI Engineers, Neural Decoding Researchers, Pc Imaginative and prescient Engineers, and Neuroimaging ML Engineers. Goyal additionally stated he is on the lookout for product managers who can “work by way of Figma without having a designer to carry their hand.”
Deepinder Goyal says Temple is constructing what ‘no different wearable’ at the moment measures
Goyal described Temple as “the final word wearable for elite efficiency athletes,” one which measures metrics no present gadget tracks, “with a degree of precision that does not exist but.” He stated the best hires are “engineers who’re additionally athletes” who would “put on what they construct, and hate it till it is excellent.”Goyal has been noticed sporting the Temple gadget—a small, metallic clip-like wearable that sits close to the temple of the brow—on a number of events, together with throughout a podcast look earlier this 12 months. He has beforehand described it as an experimental instrument designed to measure mind blood stream in actual time and repeatedly. The gadget grew out of his private analysis into well being optimisation and a concept he calls the “Gravity Ageing Speculation,” and is at the moment within the analysis prototype section.
‘Physique fats standards earlier than GTA 6,’ jokes web
The hiring put up predictably went viral, with social media break up between admiration and disbelief. “I do not suppose there exists an Embedded Methods Engineer with lower than 16% physique fats tbh,” one person quipped. One other wrote: “We actually obtained physique fats as a hiring standards earlier than GTA 6.”Some had been extra measured, noting that fitness-focused engineers may fall exterior a inflexible physique fats quantity however nonetheless convey the proper mindset. “Hiring based mostly on physique fats % will not be the most effective filter,” one commenter stated. “Some nice engineers who love health and prepare critically could not match that quantity, however they will nonetheless construct superb merchandise.”
