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About Siri
Built for regulated work, not general recruitment.
We supply the specialists who keep pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device programmes compliant, and we run the clinical, regulatory and quality work alongside them.
The problem
Most agencies cannot tell a real specialist from a good CV.
A recruiter who covers software one week and clinical research the next has no way to judge whether a candidate has genuinely owned a design history file, or has simply worked near one. The CV reads the same either way. The cost of that gap does not appear at shortlist. It appears eight weeks later when the work fails review.
In life sciences the penalty is unusually high. A validation engineer who has never written traceable test evidence, or a regulatory writer who has never defended a file through review questions, will pass a keyword screen and fail an audit. That is the difference our clients are actually paying for.
Siri exists because the hiring problem and the delivery problem are the same problem. We fix it from both ends: we place the specialist, and where a client would rather buy the outcome than the person, we do the work ourselves.
Talk to a specialist
Tell us the problem. A specialist replies, not a form robot.
What we do
What we are, in plain terms.
Two engines under one contract, so a programme gap can be closed with a person, a project team, or a whole functional service without adding another vendor.
A life sciences talent business
Contract, contract-to-hire and direct placement across clinical, regulatory, quality, engineering and IT. Every recruiter works in this sector only.
What that means for you
- First shortlists inside 48 hours
- Screened against the technical and compliance realities of the role
- I-9 and E-Verify compliant onboarding on every placement
A services business
Clinical and CRO delivery, regulatory submissions, quality systems, validation and knowledge services, run by our own teams to an agreed scope.
What that means for you
- Fixed deliverables and fixed commercials where you prefer them
- One accountable lead rather than a roster of contractors
- The same standards we screen candidates against
A delivery model that flexes
Onsite, remote and hybrid arrangements in the United States, set by what the work needs.
What that means for you
- Onsite where the work demands it, remote where it does not
- People working in your time zone
- Capacity that scales in both directions
48 hours
To first qualified profiles
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How it runs
How an engagement usually starts.
A real intake call
A recruiter or delivery lead with a life sciences background takes the brief, including the systems and compliance context most intake calls skip.
An honest read
If the role is unfillable at that rate or in that location, you hear it on the call rather than three weeks later.
Work you can check
Shortlists you can put in front of a hiring manager the same day, or a scope you can hold us to.
We stay engaged
Through onboarding, compliance checks and delivery, not just to the start date.
Questions
Questions we get asked before the first call.
How is Siri different from a generalist staffing agency?
Our recruiters work only in life sciences, and we run delivery teams in the same disciplines we recruit for. That means the person screening a validation engineer has colleagues who write validation protocols. A generalist agency screens against the job description; we screen against the work.
Are you a staffing firm or a service provider?
Both, deliberately. Some clients want a specialist on their payroll process. Others want a defined outcome delivered under a statement of work. We can move between the two without you re-contracting or onboarding a second supplier.
What size of client do you work with?
From emerging biotechs hiring their first quality lead to established manufacturers running multi-site programmes. Smaller organisations tend to use us for fractional senior expertise; larger ones for surge capacity and functional services.
Where are your people based?
Our people are based in the United States. Client-facing and onsite roles sit at or near your site. Documentation, data and validation workstreams that do not need to sit onsite are often delivered remotely or as a hybrid.
How quickly can you start?
Intake the same day, first profiles inside 48 hours for most roles. Project-based work depends on scope, but we will give you a realistic date on the first call rather than an optimistic one.
Responsibility
Siri for Society
Work in life sciences carries an obligation beyond the invoice. This is where we set out what we do about it.
Access to careers
We run introductions to regulated-industry careers for graduates and career changers who would otherwise never see these roles advertised.
Equal opportunity
Siri Life Sciences is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not charge candidates any fee at any stage. See our Recruitment Fraud Alert.
What responsible recruitment looks like here
Recruitment decides who gets a chance at a career, and in life sciences it also decides who writes the protocol, checks the data and signs the validation report. We think both of those facts deserve care, so a few commitments shape how we work every day.
Every candidate is assessed against the role, not a stereotype. Our recruiters screen against the technical and compliance requirements a client actually sets out: the regulations the work sits under, the systems involved and the evidence the role has to produce. Comparable candidates are asked comparable questions. Where a client requirement looks likely to exclude people without a genuine job-related reason, we say so.
Candidates stay in control of their own information. We do not send a profile to a named client without the candidate's approval, and anyone can ask us to update or delete what we hold. How we handle personal data is set out in our Privacy Policy.
Nobody pays us to be considered. We never charge candidates a fee at any stage. Recruitment fraud targets people who are looking for work, often at a vulnerable moment, so we publish a Recruitment Fraud Alert that explains how to check whether a message really came from us.
Access for everyone who applies. If you need an adjustment to apply, interview or do the work, tell us and we will arrange it confidentially. Our Accessibility Statement covers the website and how to reach us another way.
Why quality work is a public good
A missed deviation, an unvalidated system or an incomplete safety report ends up affecting patients. When we place a quality engineer, a clinical research associate or a pharmacovigilance specialist, we are contributing, in a small way, to whether a product is safe and whether a trial's data can be trusted. That is the standard we hold our own screening to.
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Where to go next.
Our people
Who leads the business and the standards we hold each other to.
Send us one requisition.
Judge us on the shortlist, not the sales deck.