Senior Technical Recruiter

AI-first robotics company building flexible robotic assembly factories for U.S. manufacturing and dual-use applications.

San Francisco, United States
About Foundry Robotics

Foundry Robotics operates AI-driven robotic cells for assembly, including defense and dual-use robotics, battery-pack assembly, and advanced hardware sub-assemblies.

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Candidate Availability

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will lead end-to-end recruiting for mechanical, manufacturing, process, test, and quality engineering roles. You will create competency maps, train interviewers, analyze talent competitors, and manage the staffing agency that supplies hourly contract technicians, including performance standards and retention tracking.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of technical recruiting experience
  • Experience hiring mechanical, manufacturing, or quality engineers in a hardware environment
  • Knowledge of tolerance stack-ups, DFM, GD&T, EVT, or PVT
  • Staffing agency management experience
  • Experience creating competency maps and training interviewers
  • Experience using AI tools for sourcing
  • Ability to work on a shop floor

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end hiring for mechanical, manufacturing, process, test, and quality engineering
  • Create competency maps with hiring managers
  • Build interviewer training and calibration for manufacturing and mechanical interviews
  • Conduct talent competitor analysis
  • Manage the staffing agency for hourly contract technicians
  • Negotiate agency rates and define SLAs, scorecards, and quality standards
  • Define candidate screening standards, audit agency submissions, and track contractor conversion and retention

Benefits

  • Equity compensation
  • Comprehensive health coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Generous PTO

Hiring Process

Each interviewer evaluates one skill and reports back; the hiring manager consolidates the feedback and decides.