Deepinder Goyal, the Zomato founder, has initiated an unusual recruitment drive for his latest wearable startup, Temple. Techies, typically proud of their higher IQs, cannot just rely on it to land a job at Temple. Goyal announced online that the entry to his health-tech isn’t just a high IQ, it is a low body fat percentage.
In a social media post on February 27, 2026, the founder announced he was hiring for various roles, from machine learning to neural decoding researchers, but highlighted a peculiar eligibility criterion. Only applicants with less than 16 per cent body fat for men and 26 per cent for women are eligible to apply.
Goyal, explaining the reason behind this, wrote in an X post, “We are building for people who push their bodies to the edge. We want to be those people, not just serve them. So only people who take fitness seriously, and have body fat <16 per cent (men) and 26 per cent (women) should apply,”
Goyal previously described Temple as an “experimental device to measure brain flow precisely, in real time, and continuously.” “We’re recruiting at @temple,” wrote Goyal, adding: “At Temple, we are building the ultimate wearable for elite performance athletes. A device that measures what no other wearable in the world measures, with a level of precision that doesn’t exist yet.”
The founder noted that his startup is looking for people obsessed about both the ‘craft and category,’ and the ideal candidates would be engineers who were also athletes willing to test the product until it was perfected.
Goyal also mentioned that applicants who currently do not fit the criteria but are willing to reach the desired body mass in three months could apply, but until they hit their physical target, they would be on probation.
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