If you want exclusive professional [1] access to an engineer's talents, pay them guaranteed salary + benefits in exchange for them signing a contract that precl

If you want exclusive professional [1] access to an engineer's talents, pay them guaranteed salary + benefits in exchange for them signing a contract that precludes other employment. [1] Many engineers will have side projects that they spend time on anyways. They may even care about & prioritize them more than your projects, no matter how much you pay them!