Thoughts on our job posting...Atypical Engineer for Startup Wanted

Not bad. A few suggestions:

1. Explain in the posting why you need someone "atypical." Is that just an attention-grabber? If so, remove it and figure out a way to actually differentiate.

2. This sentence is off:

> Working for a startup is sure to be exciting and fast-paced, but if you're up for the challenge the reward is immense.

because it's structured like:

> Working here is [positive], but also [positive]

which makes no sense. Either change it to e.g. "challenging and fast-paced" (not outright negative but not straight positive like "exciting") or just change the "but" to an "and." I prefer the latter.

3. Get rid of the "Intelligence" bullet point, that's silly. Recruiting is marketing--you're marketing your company instead of your product but it's still marketing. So the same rules apply: to differentiate your product (company), you can't say anything that your competitors would disagree with. If you can't imagine a Careers post saying "We hire dumbasses" don't say you need "intelligence"