Seeking Talents for 'Womanhood' Series Short

Brilliant mechanical engineer with a perpetual glint of curiosity in her eyes whose loose blazer covers a button-down and hides coffee stains and soldering burns. She loves all things science and moves with purpose, often gesturing animatedly when explaining her latest innovation, yet her shoulders carry a subtle tension from years of being talked over in meetings. Despite her impressive credentials and groundbreaking patents, she finds herself repeating ideas three times before they're heard.

A talented software engineer who wears the same five identical blue polo shirts on rotation and has never noticed they're different shades. His desk is a chaos of half-empty coffee mugs and sticky notes with brilliant solutions to yesterday's problems. Kind-hearted but perpetually puzzled by office dynamics, Dave's greatest mystery isn't the complex algorithms he writes – it's why his suggestions in the DEI committee keep getting met with polite sighs.

The newly appointed chief materials engineer who still gets lost on his way to the executive bathroom. His scratched-up hard hat, decorated with space mission stickers, sits prominently on his otherwise pristine desk – a stark contrast to the organized chaos of material samples he inherited. Despite his senior position, he maintains the wide-eyed enthusiasm of an intern discovering composite materials for the first time, treating every project meeting like a NASA materials selection review.

A hardware engineer who's been with the company "since before all these fancy coffee machines." His cubicle is a museum of engineering trinkets from the past three decades, each with its own story that he's delighted to share with anyone who makes the mistake of asking. His humor masks his insecurities around not staying current with some of the more modern technological breakthroughs. He sees this most recent project as an opportunity to return to the mix where he was considered a superstar.

A firmware engineer who communicates more through raised eyebrows and nods than actual words. He has a knack for solving complex problems while others are still explaining them, quietly sliding Post-it notes with solutions across the table. Joe's mind works like a compiler, but his solutions often arrive in the form of a single, perfect line of code or a "have you tried...?" Given the shakeup at ES, his new strategy is to be first in line. He has his first child on the way and needs this job.

A materials engineer who speaks entirely in lab safety puns and Reddit references, oblivious to how his mineral trading stories are landing. His favorite toy growing up was Lincoln Logs; his current workspace is an explosion of safety goggles and protein shake bottles. He crafts surprisingly elegant composite formulas while blasting EDM through his required ear protection. Fares greets every materials failure with "no stress fractures, dude" and somehow backs it up with solid solutions.