Terran Systems

Terran Systems was born on April 5, 1993 in a backroom windowless office in Encino, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. It actually started as an autonomous division of a larger search firm, Emersoft (now defunct). The room doubled as the location of Emersoft's phone panel system located on the back wall of the room. Many times throughout the day, several clicks and beeps could be heard as calls were continuously made throughout the firm. Even though Terran Systems' humble beginnings started in Southern California, over its entire 24 year existence, it has always focused primarily on the Bay Area market. Today, Terran Systems is co-located with physical offices in Santa Clara as well as Encino. For its first 3 years, Terran Systems operated via the name Omnicode. This name was selected as a way to portray the idea...universal coders, or more completely, "Whatever kind of software engineer you required, we will find them. The name proved useful for these early years, however in early 1996, the name was changed to Terran Systems (People Systems) to better convey who we represent and what we do. In January of 1997, the firm was spun out of Emersoft and incorporated to become its own stand-alone entity as a California corporation. From 1997 to 2001, Terran Systems promoted Recruiters from within to team-lead positions to specialize in different market segments. Sibling search firms were created for them to do this properly. For example, Modicom was the first sister firm created to focus primarily on Front End UI positions. Terran Systems then remained focused on Backend positions. Other search firms spun out during this time and incorporated were Shoreline Digital (B2C positions), BayTech Solutions (Analog/Mixed Signal Chip Design), StingRay Systems (Memory Chip Design), Ziptekk (B2B) and Koa Networks (Networking). In the year 2000, Terran Systems acquired a competing search firm, N2 Technologies. A team was subsequently put together in-house under the N2 name to focus on Telecommunications positions. After years of success by all of these, the firms were re-acquired and folded back into Terran Systems in 2012 to focus all efforts on different segments from separate teams from within. Terran Systems, whether through its sibling companies, or as a whole, has been fortunate enough to make successful placements at many household brand-name companies such as Adobe, AMD, Boeing, DirecTV, EA, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Netflix, Oracle, PayPal, Samsung, SAP, Sony, Symantec & Tivo (See Our Clients page for an expanded list). We also work with young, very new, still in stealth-mode firms ready to take on the world. Indeed, some of the above-mentioned companies were startups when we made our first placements there.