Explore a rewarding career as a technologist working for our innovative clients or join our operations teams to help grow our mission.
Every autistic person and their autistic traits are unique. The truth is, autism has no “look” or even one set of traits, strengths, or struggles. At auticon, our team members have broad and diverse interests – including as technology experts – and we are respected for it.
We know that your personal autonomy is important, so we provide benefits to help you thrive at work and at home. Each of our global offices provides a competitive benefits package that may include: flexible work schedule, competitive medical, dental and vision benefits, paid vacation, holidays and retirement investments.
We provide resources and guidance to help you prioritize your mental health, so you can maintain a long and healthy career at auticon.
auticon’s technologists and clients are supported by our job coaches who ensure that the technologists’ work environments enable them to deliver to their full professional potential. Our talented job coaches promote inclusion and well-being and are integral to making sure our technologists feel supported in their assignments.
Our Job Coaches typically have a background in clinical psychology, performance coaching, managing anxiety disorders, special education, and vocational rehabilitation.
The auticon US recruitment process is specifically tailored to be autism-friendly and free of traditional interviews. One thing that makes our process unique is that we want to get to know you, what your technical skills and interests are, what your experience has been, what your needs in a workplace are, and generally just who you are. This is so we can hire people and provide a career, not just a next gig, and place you into a role that is truly the best fit for you.
The first step in our process is applying either by sending your resume to su.no1728459578citua1728459578@ofni1728459578 or applying through one of our recruitment partners. Do not apply through any of the website “contact us” links or your application may not be reviewed.
Once received, our recruitment team will follow up with any clarifying questions we may have, and then if your skills are a basic match for our current client demand, a member of the recruitment team will reach out with an online technical skills survey so you can self-report your level of proficiency with key technical skills.
After reviewing all components of your application, if your experience is a match for the types of roles we are currently or plan to be hiring for, a member of our recruitment team will reach out via email to start the recruitment process by scheduling an informal chat.
Below is our typical recruitment process. Depending on a number of factors, these steps may not be followed exactly or in this order.
1. Informal Chat
This is not an interview! It’s a casual conversation that is a chance for our team to get a better idea of the areas you are skilled and interested in and for us to explain this recruitment process to you. The chat is typically audio-only unless you prefer video and takes 15-30 minutes.
2. Technical Evaluation
If after the informal chat there is mutual interest in moving forward in the process, we will evaluate your technical skills and abilities. There are two steps for the technical evaluation: an online coding challenge and an informal technical chat with a member of our technical delivery team. These help us get a better sense of your technical skills, interests, and career goals.
3. Coaching Evaluation
We know that finding the right work environment is key to each employee’s ability to thrive in their job. Each of our clients and each team within those clients has a unique work environment. To find the right fit for you, we incorporate job coaching into our recruitment process. Through a questionnaire and a brief chat with one of our job coaches, we learn more about you and what will work best for you.
After Completing the Process
The process is designed to determine if a candidate is a good fit for the general types of roles and skills that auticon hires for and the types of supports we can provide. Once this has been completed, we add you to our Talent Pool and the auticon recruitment and sales teams work diligently to find a client role that matches your skills and needs.
It’s important to us to be transparent that there is no set timeframe for how long this will take because it depends on the current hiring needs of our clients. This means you may be in our Talent Pool for some time while we look for the right project match. We always do our best to match each candidate with a role, but there is no guarantee we will be able to hire you.
Once we have a project match, we hire you as an auticon employee. That means you receive your salary and benefits, as well as a job coach, internal supervisor, and customized learning and development plan through us. You work on a long-term project for one of our clients and are also fully integrated into that client team. If at any point your project comes to an end, we will work to match you with another project, and we will typically fill gaps between projects with training or an internal auticon project when possible.
Stefan was diagnosed as autistic as a child and received a lot of support from his parents. He went to an inclusive elementary school, and even though there was some teasing, there was a cohesion among the kids. He only had negative experiences in high school: there were often misunderstandings and he had difficulties because of the loud, sometimes very aggressive teenagers in his class. During his education and later in job interviews he often felt unfairly and badly evaluated, but he didn’t know what the problem was and how to change it. He knew he had a strong interest in tech, so he attended a bootcamp and then got an internship. Then he read about auticon in a magazine and applied there. He recently joined the company and was assigned to a project where he can contribute his expertise well and learn something new every day.
“At auticon, I don’t have to constantly explain what I can do and why I am the way I am. Working in a team at the client is pleasant, because everyone knows that we are autistic, and my job coach supports me in my development. This gives me a lot of peace of mind and security and is simply a very good start to my career.”
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With more than 20 years of experience in software development and ten years in software engineering leadership roles, Gary remembers a time when autism wasn’t understood or accepted in the workplace. “It was very challenging to deal with the stigma of autism,” he recalled. He specialized in bridging software development, strategy, and innovation for large and entrepreneurial organizations and worked with people that were neurodivergent and recognized their strengths.
Today, Gary is a Delivery Manager and senior member of auticon’s technology team, providing mentorship and support to less experienced technologists. “For me, it’s rewarding seeing an autistic individual join a company and start a career, and providing them with any support necessary to help them grow and succeed,” he says. “Being in a position that allows me to impart my knowledge to others using my industry experience fulfills my passion for mentoring and helping others succeed and realize their full potential.”
We believe affecting change in one life is the starting point for changing society. We therefore measure our social performance through the difference auticon makes to the lives of our autistic colleagues, the impact on our customer organizations, and the role we play in creating awareness of neurodiversity in society.
Between 15-20% of the global population are neurodivergent. 2% are estimated to be autistic. Despite many autistic people being talented, qualified and keen to work, only 29% of autistic people are in full time work. Within the autistic workforce, a vast majority are under-employed, working in jobs that they are over-qualified or over-skilled for.
