How Luneus Helped Epiq Solutions Hire 24 Engineers in 12 Months and Reach $100M in Annual Revenue

location

Illinois, USA

hire type

Search

company

Epiq Solutions

Case Background

  • Executive Summary

    Epiq Solutions, a fast-growing US engineering firm, struggled to fill eight critical technical roles for over six months.

    Partnering with Luneus through our Search model, they filled all eight positions in three months — and 24 total hires in the following year with a 96% retention rate.

    This allowed Epiq to expand its engineering team by 10% and surpass $100M in annual revenue.

  • Client Background

    Epiq Solutions designs software-defined radio (SDR) systems for defense and communications across land, sea, air, and space.

    With ~300 employees and increasing demand, their growth relied on securing top-tier engineering talent in niche fields such as FPGA and embedded software design.

About the project

  • The Challenge

    Despite strong internal HR capabilities, Epiq struggled to source qualified technical candidates.

    Traditional recruiters flooded the team with irrelevant resumes, delaying projects and straining HR capacity.

    “Recruitment had become a major bottleneck. We simply couldn’t find the right people fast enough.” — Tara, HR Director, Epiq Solutions

  • The Solution

    Luneus delivered a structured, collaborative partnership through Search, including:

    • Deep role qualification and skills alignment
    • Optimized job descriptions and Epiq-branded candidate materials
    • 30–45 min video screening and executive summaries
    • Benchmarking frameworks for consistent evaluation
    • Automated sourcing and analytics to reach passive talent
    • Ongoing collaboration with HR and hiring managers

    “We knew exactly how to fix it — we’d solved this before for others.” — Operations Director, Luneus

  • The Results

    • 8 roles filled in first 3 months
    • 24 hires within 12 months
    • 96% retention rate
    • 72% resume-to-interview conversion rate
    • 10% team growth
    • $100M+ annual revenue milestone achieved

    “I couldn’t believe how quickly Luneus found qualified candidates for such tough roles.” — Dennis, Director of IT, Epiq Solutions

  • 96%

    Retention rate of hires

  • 72%

    Resume to interview conversion rate

  • $100M+

    Revenue milestone met

  • 24

    Hires made

Moving forward

Key Takeaways

  • Strong employer branding and EVP communication are vital.
  • Precision in role qualification drives successful recruitment.
  • Cross-team alignment accelerates decision-making.

Next Steps

Luneus continues to work with Epiq as a long-term talent acquisition partner, helping strengthen their employer brand, EVP, and internal hiring capability.

This ensures sustainable recruitment success while maintaining access to our niche technical expertise.

Through our work with Epiq, several important lessons emerged that have shaped both their internal recruitment approach and our ongoing partnership strategy.

We identified that Epiq are currently underutilising their employer value proposition (EVP).  Despite having a strong internal culture, excellent benefits, and supportive working environment, these strengths were not being effectively communicated to the external market. This meant that potential candidates, even those based locally, were often unaware of the opportunity within the organisation. Strengthening their employer brand and amplifying their EVP will be key to attracting top engineering talent organically in the future.

We also reaffirmed that precise role qualification is absolutely non-negotiable. At the start of the project, we worked closely with Epiq to clarify the technical and behavioural competencies needed for each role, aligning HR, hiring managers, and stakeholders around a shared understanding of success. As our Operations Director put it:

“If you’re not 100% clear on what you’re looking for, how can you be 100% sure when you’ve found the right person?”.

With this success, we will be continuing our consultancy approach with Epiq and transition to a long-term talent acquisition partnership to build Epiq’s internal capability.

Our next focus is to help Epiq strengthen its employer value proposition and employer brand strategy to attract high-quality local engineering talent organically and reduce its reliance on external recruitment agencies.

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