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Former Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa joins as director of engineering.
And Geoff Willis, the numbers of Red Bull among his former clubs, will become director of the new Mercedes technology.
They will work on technical conditions of the team, Bob Bell, director – himself a high-profile recruits Renault earlier this year.
Mercedes has had a disappointing two seasons since taking the 2009 world champion Brawn in time for the 2010 season.
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His best results are three podiums courtesy of Nico Rosberg, and this year is fourth in the constructors' championship and have been a little off the pace of the top three teams, Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.
The BBC, the team is under pressure to raise their level of performance, and these high profile appointments are a signal of a unit to allocate resources to strengthen its technical team.
Costa, who starts work on 1 December, was dismissed from his role as Ferrari technical director in May after disappointing start to the season team, but it is well known for the Mercedes team boss, Ross Brawn, who had worked with him at Ferrari.
Costa was a key member of the Ferrari design office in Brawn, technical director and chief designer Rory Byrne when they were dominating F1 in the early 2000 with Michael Schumacher, who came out of retirement to drive for Mercedes in 2010.
Willis, who joins Mercedes on October 17, has most recently been working with the team struggling HRT as a consultant. But – like Bell – who is one of the most respected engineers streamlined the sport.
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Prior to his position in hormone replacement therapy, Willis made a series of high profile roles in Red Bull, under its current technical director Adrian Newey, who also worked at Williams during his years of success in the mid 1990's .
Willis was also technical director of the bar and Honda teams in the 2000s.
Mercedes said that Costa would be responsible for the design and development, while Willis head aerodynamics, vehicle dynamics, control systems and simulation capabilities.
Brawn said: "Building a winning team is an exciting challenge for all of us in our efforts to increase competitiveness and standards that we aspire to the Mercedes-Benz works team.
"With a solid technical structure directed by Bob Bell, we are moving in the best possible position to achieve our ambitions."
Other teams have spoken privately of Mercedes offer significant salaries to entice engineers to join them.
But the team insist their recruitment drive will still keep them within the terms of the Resource Restriction Agreement, which limits staff numbers, research and development and external spend of F1 teams.
Mercedes vice-president of motorsport Norbert Haug added: «We have been putting in place the building blocks for success.
«Our technical organisation was strengthened by the arrival of Bob Bell and, working closely with Ross, he has identified the areas where we can improve still further.
«Aldo and Geoff will reinforce our technical management and bring the experience required to harness the talents of our people in [the team's headquarters at] Brackley; we have also recruited and invested at other levels in order to maximise our competitiveness under the Resource Restriction Agreement.
«Our goal remains to progress step by step in order to establish ourselves as a front-running team for the long term, in line with the tradition of the Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrows.»
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